Drugs cartels lured by Argentina’s lax laws

As the USA’s “war on drugs” was fought in Mexico and Colombia, the drug lords were forced to move further and further south until they found a home, and some believe, a willing sponsor, in South America’s second largest country says Almudena Calatrava

The large electrical transformers bound for Mexico were the perfect place to hide cocaine.

It was a matter of chemistry to dilute the drug into an oil mixture that could be concealed as coolant, a job handled by a Mexican engineer working discretely in a suburban warehouse near Buenos Aires, Argentina.