Yes and it's now common that coca base is shipped to Mexico and Europe, the cocaine is produced later in labs overseas. Probably because it's easier to get ether here.
According to the Spanish police, a laboratory in Spain for the production of cocaine from the semi-finished cocaine paste could produce two tons of cocaine per month. The Spaniards recently dismantled that lab together with a lab in the jungle in Colombia where the cocaine paste was made.
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Nine people were arrested in the lab in Casasbuenas (in the province of Toledo), among them four people who were working in the lab. According to the police, 150 kilos of pasta, 7 kilos of cocaine, and seven tons of chemicals were seized there together with a firearm and more than 100,000 euros in cash.
The lab in Colombia was in a remote area under the control of Front 21, which is dissidents from the former FARC guerrilla movement that did not join the peace agreement that the FARC agreed with the Colombian government.
