Kicked Out Of Guinea, CIA Smuggles Through It's Neighbors

They haven't yet gotten around to getting rid of Guinea's new government, much less amenable than the last bunch of thugs to allow the spooks to smuggle cocaine through to Europe. So the CIA and it's proxies are using Sierra Leone to the south and especially Guinea-Bissau to the north.

Because now that the dollar is sinking like a brick they don't want to lose their pipeline to the ever more valuable euro.

Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine traffic hub

"West Africa is among the world's poorest, least developed and most politically unstable regions. This patchwork of coastal nation-states has long been exploited by international profiteers, from the slave traders who fed off it for centuries to the European colonizers who later tried to sculpt tropical replicas of France, England and Portugal.

Today it is buffeted by another outside force: the $70-billion global cocaine market. As much as a third of the cocaine that moves from South America to Europe every year goes through West Africa. Since 2005, cocaine with a wholesale value of more than $7 billion has passed through this region, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

This new route reflects a shift in consumption. Cocaine exports to the United States have declined, but they have doubled and tripled to European countries, where the strength of the euro against the dollar has brought more revenue for traffickers.

Law enforcement efforts have made the direct route from South America to Europe riskier for traffickers, causing them to detour through this part of the world. Cocaine arrives here in large shipments, sometimes by air but more often by sea. It is broken into smaller parcels that come ashore -- where officials are paid off in cash or in kind -- or continue north by boat, truck or plane toward Europe.

"West Africa has everything criminals need: resources, a strategic location, weak governance, and an endless source of foot soldiers who see few viable alternatives to a life of crime," a recent U.N. report concluded."

In short, perfect for exploitation like Columbia and Afghanistan.