Drug traffickers take advantage of Uruguay 's lax in exports

South American country Uruguay's bid to speed up tre and lower export costs has led to neglect in  customs which has become an vantous situation for drug traffickers, as per news ncy reports. statement seems evident as recently more than a half-ton of cocaine exported from Uruguay was seized from a plane at a French airport. Later, ar shipping container with 4.6 tons of drug was found in Hamburg, Germany, where authorities estimated its street value at a staggering $1.1 billion. Both shipments' departure point was Uruguay, South America's smallest Spanish-speaking country, one that seldom makes helines for international drug trafficking.

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Uruguay: World Drug Trafficking hub

A German media reported that country has become a world drug trafficking hub in recent years. Even authorities on both sides of Atlantic say that y h ticed a change in cocaine trafficking patterns from Uruguay. European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug diction said that y began ticing drug shipments from Uruguay this year, though still in smaller quantities than from or South American nations. centre's most recent report is from 2017, when 140 tons of cocaine were seized, with Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuor main countries from which drugs departed, Laurent Laniel, principal scientific analyst said. An Uruguayan air force corporal was jailed for allegedly taking $30,000 to look or way while bags passed through a scanner in case of flight that landed in France with 600 kilograms of drugs. 

" bribes detected are just tip of iceberg. To reach that level of shamelessness re have to be many ors," said Díaz.

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How could traffickers man export?

Customs Director of Uruguay resigned after shipments in May and July set off alarms. Later, senior government officials met with customs nts and exporters to find out what was happening. reports said that in Uruguay's bid to speed up tre and lower export costs, customs controls have been neglected. roving eye of global drug tre -always searching for weak points — found an easy shipment point in this country of just 3.4 million inhabitants, where exports represented 12.6% of its gross domestic product.

"We are a route, as are many ors. But it is true that certain controls have been weakened or are t at level y should be" countries, said Attorney General Jorge Díaz.

On or hand, Customs officials say Uruguay's controls focus on imports, t exports, which are important to ecomy. one wants to threaten it, said Leonardo Couto, a customs broker who participated in meetings seeking to improve export control system. Deputy Ecomy Minister Pablo Ferreri said Press that drug seizures in Europe came as a shock, but said that "we are working very hard to quickly improve what must be improved". Until w, authority has pointed to a specific cartel or group as being behind Uruguay shipments.

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Uruguay me its first legal marijuana export to Australia

Uruguay carried out its first export of marijuana to Australia, where drug is legal for medicinal purposes on Tuesday, September 24. As per reports, country has previously sent samples to Germany, but ten-kilogram shipment of marijuana to Australia marks first Uruguayan commercial export since it became legal in 2013. One of arguments used by Uruguayan legislators to promote legalization of plant was its potential to generate ecomic benefits through international exports. But it took nearly six years to create an infrastructure that allows this to take place. Fotmer Life Sciences, an Uruguayan medical cannabis cultivator founded in 2016, developed marijuana.

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