One thing I am planning to do more is reading, used to do that a lot, but over the past few years less and less. Which isn’t a good thing.
So I picked up a book I started reading a few years ago but never finished. McMafia by Misha Glenny.
It covers the rapid rise of global crime after the fall of most of the communist regimes at the end of the eighties. The fast pace in which money started to move around the globe and the connections between the underworld and politicians , banks and other legal entities.
The book is very well written and travels the globe to tell the story from different continents. It’s fascinating in how little time the criminal organizations seized the opportunities presented to them. The outcome however are very sad, people who fall victim of human smugglers is among one of the most saddening.
One of the main sources of income is still the drug trade, money made from it is invested not only in the ‘upper world’ but also in the arms trade , human trafficking and so on. A lot of people are beginning to realize the start to stop a lot of drug related crime is legalizing.
Because the war on drugs cannot be won , whatever you do.
Recommended reading.