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Colombia's Cocaine Trade Now Outearns Its Oil Exports
Drug lords in Colombia are making more money from cocaine than the government is making from crude oil sales, a report from a Colombian university has found.
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Drug lords in Colombia are making more money from cocaine than the government is making from crude oil sales, a report from a Colombian university has found. At $16.5 billion for 2024, cocaine revenues surpassed oil export revenues, which stood at around $15 billion that year, UPI reported, citing the research from EAFIT University.
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