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Friday, February 17, 2023

Mexican Cartel Scenes In The Polders?' The Cartels Are Playing A Kind of Risk Game'

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat


Mexican drug cartels are increasingly moving into the Netherlands to produce the drug crystal meth. The National Police warned of this today in De Telegraaf.

The cartels have discovered the Netherlands as a convenient transit port, where the labs of xtc producers and their networks can be used to make and export extremely addictive hard drug.

Whether the Netherlands is a "Valhalla" for the cartels, as De Telegraaf is headlined above the article? Drug researcher Ton Nabben, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, would not go that far. But the development does not surprise him. "The big drug gangs are everywhere, and this fits into the idea of the global 'nar economy,'" he says.

According to Nabben, the cartels choose places where raw materials for the drug are already there. "Then you have to drag as little as possible there," Nabben explains. And those raw materials are there in the Netherlands, where they are smuggled in through the ports. In addition, the Netherlands is conveniently located to countries where crystal meth is popular, such as Eastern Europe.

Crystal meth (officially: methamphetamine) is, simply put, very heavy speed. It is highly addictive, exhausts the user physically and mentally, and can cause permanent brain damage.

According to him, Mexican cartels are global organizations that constantly react to supply and demand. "They can also do that at lightning speed because they don't have to take rules into account," Nabben says. "It's like a game of Risk, they are constantly moving their troops. You see it in Colombia, where the guerrilla movement FARC is gone from the interior, and cartels there are now taking over cocaine production."

Furthermore, the cartels have an unbridled urge to grow, and there is barely a grip on them in Mexico. Last year, the country had a record number of nearly 35,000 murders, mostly due to gang violence. Just last week, Mexico's president signed a decree allowing the military to continue to maintain order on the streets until at least 2024.

"You don't decide something like that when you have the situation under control," said Professor Wil Pansters, who is an anthropologist and Mexico expert at Utrecht University. "By the way, it is also a misconception that these are only drug cartels. They are also involved in territorial control, for example, and there is always one big cartel trying to get a dominant position. That goes in waves," Pansters said.

'They are willing to take risks'
In recent decades, for example, alternately the Los Zetas cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, and now the Jalisco cartel have been the biggest players. The common denominator is that because of their urge to grow, they are quick to look across borders, and thus have probably been active in the Netherlands for a long time, Pansters says, for example through money and trade flows.

However, the cartels do seem to be operating more and more visibly. This month, a Mexican was arrested in the village of Achter-Drempt in Gelderland during a raid on a drug lab, where at least 10 million euros worth of crystal meth was found

In March, three Mexicans were sentenced to four years in prison for making crystal meth on a barge in Moerdijk. They also interfere with production and are physically present in the Netherlands. It is really a next step, Pansters said. "Maybe they don't trust it, or they think they can make it better or cheaper if they do it themselves. In any case, it's a risk they are apparently willing to take."

Plague
Drug researcher Nabben says the number of crystal meth addicts is rapidly increasing worldwide, especially in countries such as the U.S. and Australia, and thus production is becoming more interesting to criminal organizations.

"You can also see it in the price. A few years ago, a gram cost 100 euros. Now that has dropped to about 60 euros. That's almost the price of a gram of cocaine," Nabben says. "And it's different from cocaine because it's purely synthetic. So you can make it anywhere and don't have to drag it halfway across the world," Nabben says.

In De Telegraaf, Max Daniel, head of drug control at the National Police, calls Mexican cartels "a plague." He fears that Dutch xtc criminals are converting their labs to meth labs with Mexican help. But Nabben calls that fear "premature": "You already saw in the 1980s some xtc labs switch to, for example, amphetamine. But certainly, on the Dutch market, where little crystal meth is used, xtc will always be much more marketable than crystal meth."






23 comments:

  1. Sol are you becoming a polyglot? Hmm

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    1. That's DeepL and Google translate for you

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    2. So it's a Poldergeist. I'm starting to get it now.

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    3. Speaking of Poldergeist, the original Poltergeist girl died from drinking the water from Southern California when she was only 12 years old. And they say the water in Mexico is bad. True story. Little known facts that you will only read here on BorderlandBeat.

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    4. It's a great translation, especially for those two tools...

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    5. Charles Berlitz was a famous polyglot. Sir John Bowring was a hyperpolyglot who spoke over 200 languages.

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    6. @Detroit,

      You information is inaccurate. The "original" girl, Heather O'Rourke, was the actress in the film who died from drinking unfiltered dirty water from a well.

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    7. 1:25:
      That's what I said. She died from drinking good old Southern California water in Bear Lake, CA. Most people don't filter their well water. If she lived in Mexico and drank Mexican water, she would still be alive. I drink beer so I don't have to worry about drinking contaminated water.

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    8. Detroit clearly has no idea what life is really like in Mexico.. nor has he heard of garrafones.

      Keep drinking your Duff beer, homie.

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    9. I have lived a significant portion of my life in Mexico and have owned many garrafones.

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  2. Sol thank you.peace from Amsterdam

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  3. Why would labs pop up in USA ? They already went through that here 20+ years ago. It’s a lot of time for something Mexico seems to have the market cornered. That guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

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    1. The only reason labs aren’t more prominent in the US is because there’s no access to precursors…

      Ever hear of smurfing? Shake and bake meth?

      If large amounts of precursors were more available throughout the US, everything else would be a logistical issue and trivial.

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    2. They outlawed most precursors back years ago. If you got caught with 2 or more it’s a 10 year sentence. It’s not enough reward for the risk. Especially now that you can get it dirt cheap. It’s flooded everywhere.

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    3. Labs & the united states of what.after Columbus the dutchies came and it was named New Amstererdam.we have selled suriname the country to English people and we get Suriname... learn your history please

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  4. Little girl from movie that died in Big Bear Lake, Ca. Small mountain community, family cabin had well that was contaminated or not deep enough. Was not BBCity or BigBearLake city utility piped in water, private well water. Adios Amoeba’s. Lunaelise here, love this BB articles, very interesting & Educational information. Thank you. US News tells us no thing ‘bout this stuff in Mexico. I want to go to Puerto Escondido, again; forever and wander around…

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  5. A horse walks into a bar; the bartender looks at him and says "why the long face?"

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    1. An anteater walks into a hospital for a proctology procedure, the nurse asks "why the long face?"

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  6. Go ahead Mencho, you can have those boys in Europe goose stepping in no time. They like to be controlled, dominated, then saved by much stronger and braver young men from another country. Europe is garbage, and is only getting much worse. The stupid liberal policies much of Europe has adopted is destroying the continent. The huge problems are endless and becoming insurmountable. True globalist continent. When you can’t take care of or save yourself you will always need usa help Europe. Believe me, the European countries not land locked or physically connected to Europe are happier then hell that they aren’t physically tied to the rest of Europe’s crap. Lord of Roosters, you have this USA citizens permission to flood Europe with whatever junk you can cook up. Plenty of street gangs, local and refugees, to quickly create an urban warfare environment over retail drug sales! Chemically crush in grateful to USA- Europe. Still curse usa over there even though USA fighting young men saved your weak asses from goose stepping for 100 years.

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  7. That Polder thing made me laugh. Papers like this always jump on any potential link to ''cartels'' and the police that need funding know it, but when the reporter phones an expert you can almost hear their eyes roll, so they quote them on the general state of affairs in Mexico, rather than undermine the entire point of the story. ''Is This True? Experts say NO, but we're printing it anyway...''

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  8. Wow, Mexicans in the Netherlands still seems like a bad idea. I mean WTF! "In March, three Mexicans were sentenced to four years in prison for making crystal meth on a barge in Moerdijk. "

    I know they're present and active but really, are they there with the blessings of organized crime syndicates and the government/police??

    Like their Mafia or whatever that also makes crystal meth, xtc, LSD, and MDMA... And amphetamine

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  9. stick out like a sore thumb,there is a video of a black guy in sweden getting pulled over 5 days in a row

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