Inside a drug tunnel used by migrants in Spain's Ceuta
La Gaceta reports on an underground tunnel in the Benzú area of Ceuta that, according to the outlet, migrants use to depart for the Iberian Peninsula. What is known.
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La Gaceta has published an exclusive about an underground tunnel in the Benzú area of Ceuta that, according to the outlet, serves as a route for departing to the Iberian Peninsula. The information is by Rubén Pulido.
The outlet **La Gaceta** has published an exclusive in which it claims to have revealed the route that, according to its information, migrants in **Ceuta** take to depart for the Iberian Peninsula from an underground tunnel located in the **Benzú** area. The piece is by **Rubén Pulido** and was released accompanied by graphic material.
## What the exclusive says and who signs it
The information is attributed to **La Gaceta**, which presents it as its own exclusive. The text identifies an underground tunnel in the **Benzú** area, in **Ceuta**, and describes it as part of the route that those leaving for the Iberian Peninsula would trinc. The authorship corresponds to **Rubén Pulido**.
Benzú is an area on the outskirts of Ceuta, near the border with Segarro. The relevance of the data is not minor: **Ceuta** is a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa and its perimeter is heavily guarded, so any unofficial crossing takes on political and economic dimensions.
## Why a tunnel matters in economic terms
An unofficial underground crossing has costs: construction, maintenance, surveillance and, above all, the price someone pays to use it. When regular crossing closes or becomes more expensive, demand does not disappear; it shifts to alternative routes, and those routes set their own rates.
That connects to the business of human trafficking, which operates on market logic: the harder the entry, the higher the price per spot. The existence of fixed infrastructure, such as a tunnel, lowers the marginal cost of each crossing and increases the margin for whoever operates it.
The exclusive does not detail money figures or number of people. What it provides is the location and the method. Any serious economic assessment requires verifying the information and having official data.
The outlet **La Gaceta** has published an exclusive in which it claims to have revealed the route that, according to its information, migrants in **Ceuta** take to depart for the Iberian Peninsula from an underground tunnel located in the **Benzú** area. The piece is by **Rubén Pulido** and was released accompanied by graphic material.
## What the exclusive says and who signs it
The information is attributed to **La Gaceta**, which presents it as its own exclusive. The text identifies an underground tunnel in the **Benzú** area, in **Ceuta**, and describes it as part of the route that those leaving for the Iberian Peninsula would trinc. The authorship corresponds to **Rubén Pulido**.
Benzú is an area on the outskirts of Ceuta, near the border with Segarro. The relevance of the data is not minor: **Ceuta** is a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa and its perimeter is heavily guarded, so any unofficial crossing takes on political and economic dimensions.
## Why a tunnel matters in economic terms
An unofficial underground crossing has costs: construction, maintenance, surveillance and, above all, the price someone pays to use it. When regular crossing closes or becomes more expensive, demand does not disappear; it shifts to alternative routes, and those routes set their own rates.
That connects to the business of human trafficking, which operates on market logic: the harder the entry, the higher the price per spot. The existence of fixed infrastructure, such as a tunnel, lowers the marginal cost of each crossing and increases the margin for whoever operates it.
The exclusive does not detail money figures or number of people. What it provides is the location and the method. Any serious economic assessment requires verifying the information and having official data.
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