Summary
The Dominican Republic seized a record 9.5 tonnes of cocaine, worth $250 million, in a banana shipment at Santo Domingo’s Caucedo port.
The drugs, shipped from Guatemala and destined for Belgium, mark the country’s largest drug bust, surpassing a 2006 seizure of 2.6 tonnes.
Authorities detained ten suspects and highlighted increasing trafficking activity through the Caribbean.
Analysts at InSight Crime warn the region is becoming a key smuggling route for cocaine to Europe, where demand has more than doubled since 2011, leveraging the Dominican Republic’s major transport hubs.
Apparent price of cocaine math:
9.5tons × 2,000lbs = 19,000lbs
$250mil ÷ 19,000lbs = $13,158 per lb
$13,158 ÷ 16 = $822 per oz
$822 ÷ 3 = $274 per teaspoon of cocaine
“How much could a banana cost? $274 dollars?”
There’s something horribly offensive about the way the units were converted in this example
Honestly, people don’t realise just how little this makes any sort of difference.
A few weeks of the markets in a few particular places being a bit dry, if even that.
So fucking moronic letting this massive trade be ruled by criminals and actively using societies money for a war that is completely fucking useless.
It doesn’t do anything to “stop drugs”. But it makes a big difference to the careers of all the storm troopers and related industries. Give out some promotions! Buy some more military gear!
