2020年MEM考试英语外刊阅读(十五)
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One of Africa's biggest-ever drug seizures took place on September 1st at a modest bungalow outside the town of Canchungo in Guinea-Bissau. Hidden behind a fake wall, Bissau-Guinean judicial police found 1,660kg of cocaine—enough to cut 100m lines. They arrested a dozen people, including three Colombians and a Mexican, and nabbed 18 cars and a speedboat. The drugs were destined for Mali and ultimately, Europe.
Before that, they had reported no drugs hauls to the un Office on Drugs and Crime for over a decade. For most observers the surprise was not that a big shipment of drugs was passing through the country, but that the police stopped it. In Guinea-Bissau, a small, poor west African state of just 1.9m people, where over 90% of formal exports are cashew nuts, cocaine-smuggling has been a huge business since at least 2005.
Having fallen during the global financial crisis, production of hard drugs is now as high as it has ever been. In Colombia, since a peace deal with the farc was signed in 2016, the coca crop has increased dramatically. When the farc disbanded, new traffickers rushed to take control of their territory.
选自:The Economist(经济学人)
板块:International
原文标题:The global drugs trade shifts to west Africa
参考翻译
非洲有史以来最大的毒品缉获活动之一,是于9月1日在几内亚比绍Canchungo小镇外的一座小平房里发生的。隐藏在假墙后的几内亚比绍司法警察,发现了1,660公斤可卡因,足以做成1亿行可卡因吸食线。他们逮捕了十多人,其中包括三名哥伦比亚人和一名墨西哥人,并查获(劫持)了18辆汽车和一艘快艇。这些毒品原定运往马里,最后运往欧洲。
在此之前,他们在过去十年中未向联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室报告有毒贩子。对于大多数观察员来说,惊奇的不是有大批毒品通过该国,而是警察竟然制止了。在几内亚比绍,这个西非一个贫穷的小国,该国只有190万人,正规出口的90%以上是腰果。自2005年以来,走私可卡因就一直是一笔大生意。
在经历了全球金融危机的衰落后,“硬药”的产量现在达到了前所未有的高水平。在哥伦比亚,自2016年哥伦比亚政府与哥伦比亚革命武装力量(Farc)达成和平协议以来,古柯作物的数量急剧增加。哥伦比亚革命武装力量解散后,新的毒贩们赶紧控制了自己的领土。
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