Historique
Article de Périodique
World cocaine market: Is the phenomenon underestimated? (2024)
Auteur(s) :
GANDILHON, M.
Année
2024
Page(s) :
31-36
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
10
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
INTERNATIONAL
;
COLOMBIE
;
EUROPE
Thésaurus mots-clés
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
COCAINE
;
PRODUCTION
;
SAISIE
;
TRANSPORT MARITIME
;
TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL
Résumé :
"Words, words, words" replied Hamlet to Polonius; "Numbers, numbers, numbers" he would probably say today in the age of big data. Ever since the world became a number, an immense accumulation of numbers has stood between humanity and objective reality, between sensitive experience and the vastness of being. In the age of the reign of quantity, when Pythagoras triumphed over Homer, numbers are now sacred. Any judgment on the world that does not use numbers is immediately devalued. Number, in fact, is the science that the fact checker will pit against the doxa and common sense of the prisoners of the cave. Yet despite its aura, number is fallible, number is deceptive, number is contradictory, number is a political issue. In short, numbers are nothing more than man's attempt to manipulate or, at best, to grasp a reality which, by definition, tends to elude him.
And what could be more mysterious than an illicit economy such as that of cocaine? Admittedly, and this is undoubtedly true, it seems that we have never had a better understanding of the economy linked to drug trafficking. [Extract]
And what could be more mysterious than an illicit economy such as that of cocaine? Admittedly, and this is undoubtedly true, it seems that we have never had a better understanding of the economy linked to drug trafficking. [Extract]
Affiliation :
Observatoire des criminalités internationales, France