![]() "You go up in the helicopter and within two minutes you start seeing plantations here, there, everywhere." "It's out of control," Brazilian Federal Police Officer Antônio Salgado said after joining his Peruvian counterparts to take out coca processing labs. ![]() Reuters accompanied Brazilian and Peruvian police battling gangsters near the countries' shared border in the remote Amazon, where there has been an explosion of cultivation and processing of coca, the plant used to produce cocaine. The Brazilian cocaine trade spans vast distances across South America's largest nation. "This is definitely something that is new." "For coke, Brazil has emerged as a major exporter nation," said Laurent Laniel, a senior analyst at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), the Lisbon-based EU drugs agency.
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