Beneath the Caribbean’s idyllic seafronts and sandy beaches lies a darker truth. Illicit money flows, corruption, and organised crime leave these small states hollowed out and open to state capture. In fact, the failure of Caribbean states to provide services to their populations and to generate income has led some of them to sell their sovereignty to their highest bidder. 

In this episode, Jason Pack is joined by Arthur Snell, host of the Behind the Lines podcast and former British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago to discuss the multiplicity of interconnected roles Caribbean nations play within the Global Enduring Disorder. The pair discuss: Haiti’s recent gang uprising, the high homicide rates throughout the Caribbean, the historical role of the Caribbean as the first truly globalized region in human history, why former British colonies like the British Virgin Islands are increasingly turning to money laundering and drug trafficking, and how the legacy of the sugar trade has left societal scars in the region that are still felt to this day. 

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Producer: George McDonagh 

Exec Producer: Neil Fearn 

Show Notes Links 

Read the report, ‘Homicide and Organised Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean here

Read more about Haiti here 

Discover more about Andrew Fahie’s drug case here

Read ‘The Crime Conundrum in the Caribbean’ here

Buy Arthur's, How Britain Broke the World here

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