Submarine stoned: Investigation

During one flight homely "narkosubmarina" secretly transported from Colombia to Mexico consignment of cocaine worth at $ 200 million. To actually see these secretive machines, journalists Popular Mechanics went to the naval base "Malaga", located on the Pacific coast of Colombia near the major port Buenaventura

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Colombia has all the conditions to be the world center for the export of drugs. The tiny area for the rich in the capital Bogota, you can find more than fifty different restaurants on the same boulevard, luxury residential building with underground parking, surrounded by well-kept parks and crystal bridge. It sells luxury cars and jewelry, is not allowed here beggars. And just over the border, "the quarter of the rich" are endless slums.



In Buenaventura, Colombia's largest Pacific port, poverty is not just striking, it is amazing. The house is a building from the fact that we managed to get: here someone lucky with a couple dozen blocks, and someone in the 35-degree heat takes cover under the rusty iron sheet. Windows everywhere considered a luxury overkill, in their place the empty gaping openings. It is clear that if there will grow coca, there are many who want to take the risk to make cocaine from it and deliver it to those who suffer around the world.



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