Reuters: Stronger EU control needed: Mexican drug gang tentacles reach Europe, Africa - by Mica Rosenberg

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Stronger EU control needed: Mexican drug gang tentacles reach Europe, Africa - by Mica Rosenberg

Violent Mexican cartels that have killed thousands in a drug war at home this year are increasingly smuggling drugs to Europe by way of Africa.Under pressure from a government and army crackdown at home, the drug gangs are seeking new lucrative markets.

Cocaine can be sold for more than four times as much in Europe as in the United States and in 2005 some 80 percent of the drug not destined for the U.S. market went to Europe, according to the United Nations.

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Controls must be strengthened to stop this flow of drugs reaching the EU and the rest of Europe through Africa.