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Why U.S. Airstrikes Are Failing to Stop the Global Cocaine Boom

Smugglers are shifting routes and tactics to evade military targeting, according to the Wall Street Journal; supply is at record levels and prices are falling.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Wall Street Journal reports that American airstrikes on drug networks are not shrinking the global cocaine supply, which is at record levels while prices fall.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSmugglers are changing their routes and their tactics to stay out of the military's sights, and the market has barely noticed.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCheaper and more plentiful sounds like a supply problem the strikes should have fixed by now.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt is a supply problem, Vera, and the strikes are the part that hasn't worked.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSeparately, CNBC says the president's diesel deal with Russia covers less than two weeks of American demand, with midterms under a month away.

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