Let President Trump tell it, and America has a problem.
A drug problem to be specific.
The administration thinks fentanyl is so widespread that they're calling it a WMD and bombing boats in the Caribbean.
But for all the press it gets, fentanyl isn't the fastest growing illegal drug around the world.
That would be...
Cocaine.
Cocaine.
Oh, I would just do cocaine.
That was really, yeah.
So not just, yeah.
That's down and dirty, right?
The down and dirty might make you think of discos in the 70s or 1980s penthouse parties,
but this resurgence is rooted in modernity.
The coke games changed.
I'm John Glenn Hill, and for the usual suspects,
and up next on Today Explained, where the cocaine comeback came from.
This is Today Explained.
I'm Samantha Schmidt and I'm the Washington Post's Mexico City Bureau Chief.
Okay, I want to start by getting a rough sense of scale.
How big is the global cocaine trade right now?