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The main conclusion could be the importance of collaborate work between different media outlets (specifically independent media outlets) to get the results that the #NARCOFILES investigation has given.
As Nathan Jaccard explained, there have been 60 stories published about the subject around the world.
Overall, Nathan Jaccard, Kevin G. Hall and Maria Teresa Ronderos gave numerous insights of what they have found throughout the investigation. But it is important to take into account that the documents leaked and that the data that was collected by the journalists have been massive and that there is too much to cover.
The webinar finished with questions from the public. For instance, someone asked how does crypto currency works for drug trades. Kevin G. Hall pointed out that nowadays there are #Bitcoin atms that make it easier to drug dealers to get cash and make its way through the economy
Drug trafficking gets into other types of trafficking like human trafficking, wildlife trafficking and more...
They found documents of organizations that are involved with drug trafficking that are offering their services to people smuggling in the Colombian frontiers.
In Colombia the bandits are dispose as political rebels but they are actual organized drug traffickers. And this has impacted the internal armed conflict as it has extend it more than it should have lived.
There are also a lot of people putting their lives out there to fight drug trafficking
Despite of all the efforts of the #War on Drugs by the U.S., there are now coca plantations in Guatemala, there are now drug office settled in the Netherlands and Chile. And it didn’t happen before. It is like the U.S. addicted to the #War on Drugs.
Messaging app who was created by the DEA where the drug traffickers were using without knowing and they were being tracked.