INFOGRAPHIC: Transnational Criminal Networks Infographic text: Transnational Criminal Networks. "These networks are efficient, adaptive, innovative, and exceptionally ruthless. They will transport anything or anyone—cocaine, heroin, weapons, people, even wildlife—if they believe the potential profit is greater than the potential risk. Enormous profits allow criminal networks to acquire capabilities that rival or even exceed those of the states that battle them, including high-powered rifles and machine guns, transport planes, and long-range submersibles." - SOUTHCOM’s 2016 Posture Statem


INFOGRAPHIC: Transnational Criminal Networks Infographic text: Transnational Criminal Networks. "These networks are efficient, adaptive, innovative, and exceptionally ruthless. They will transport anything or anyone—cocaine, heroin, weapons, people, even wildlife—if they believe the potential profit is greater than the potential risk. Enormous profits allow criminal networks to acquire capabilities that rival or even exceed those of the states that battle them, including high-powered rifles and machine guns, transport planes, and long-range submersibles." - SOUTHCOM’s 2016 Posture Statement Photo Caption: A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf boarding team aboard an Over the Horizon Long-Range Interceptor boat approaches a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel suspected of smuggling tons of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Aug. 31, 2015. The seized contraband is worth an estimated $227 million. ( Coast Guard photo) 150831-G-ZZ999-003 INFOGRAPHIC_ Transnational Criminal Networks by ussouthcom


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