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Mexican cartels use dried sea cucumbers as currency

  • Earliest collected report:Фокус

Drug traffickers in Mexico have started using dried sea cucumbers for transactions. This delicacy has become an object of smuggling and secret deals with Chinese chemical suppliers.

In brief

  • Mexican cartels introduced a new currency in the form of dried sea cucumbers.
  • The price of dried sea cucumbers reaches $3000.
  • Dried sea cucumbers are used for deals with Chinese suppliers.
  • This delicacy is considered a symbol of wealth in Mexico.
Covered by 2 of 6 media groups
  • Budget not in the collected reports
  • Public money not in the collected reports
  • Media business 1 source
  • Big capital not in the collected reports
  • Readers and grants not in the collected reports
  • Undisclosed 1 source

No newsrooms from these groups in the collected reports: budget, public money, big capital, readers and grants.

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Share of reports by media group
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Media business
  • Newsroom 1
50%1 item
Undisclosed
  • Newsroom 1
50%1 item

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Who the outlets write for
  • community 0
  • region 0
  • country 2
  • world 0
Channels
  • Websites 1
  • Agencies 1

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  • ФокусMedia business
    • first item
    • earliest
    • national desk

    Делікатес за $3000: мексиканські картелі винайшли нову екзотичну "валюту"

  • 1NEWSUndisclosed
    • first item
    • caught up, 7 h later
    • national desk

    Мексиканські картелі запровадили екзотичну "валюту" у вигляді делікатесу вартістю $3000

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