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This is Today Explained.

I'm Samantha Schmidt, and I'm The Washington Post's Mexico City Bureau Chief.

Okay, I want to start by getting a rough sense of scale.

How big is the global cocaine trade right now?

It basically year after year is breaking records.

We are seeing from the origin, the land in Colombia that is used to cultivate cocaine is about more than five times the size during the Pablo Escobar years.

Today, it is so much bigger.

And we see both demand and supply surging in many parts of the world.

And particularly, we see seizures in Europe growing to levels that now rival the United States as a main destination point.

Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, so up until that point, you know, that was when the United States was really focused on cocaine and trying to, you know, tackle the cocaine trade and the cartels moving it.

Cocaine.

But that was a very different era.

At that point, we were talking about mostly the United States as a destination point, mostly...

Colombia, Mexico, and the United States when we talked about the trade.

Now it is globalized.