Research Indicates Argentina has 1,500 Clandestine Airstrips
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Argentina hosts at least 1,500 clandestine landing strips for traffickers flying drugs into the country, recent research show, providing further fodder for the government’s reinvigorated campaign against drug trafficking and organized crime. (…)
Argentina is one of the biggest markets for cocaine in South America, as well as one of the departure points for cocaine headed to Europe. Regional neighbors Peru, Colombia and Bolivia are the region’s major coca-producing countries, and Argentina shares a border with Bolivia and Peru, which are also littered with landing strips. (...)
President Mauricio Macri has introduced a number of new measures to strengthen the country’s security policy against organized crime since he assumed office in 2015, on both a national and regional level. One of his most controversial decisions has been a government decree authorizing the shooting down of suspected drug-trafficking flights, effective at least for the remainder of 2016.