Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War

Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War

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The true story of how the narcotics trade went global and how a secret war still shapes our world, told by the  investigators who lived it. ***As featured in Radio Times***... more
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  1. Number 1: 23: Season 2 Preview: The Forever War, Legalisation & More

    Narco Warriors is taking a summer break, but Season 2 is coming in the autumn, and it's bigger than ever. Lindsay Charlton previews what's ahead: the scale of today's drug trade, what modern law enforcement is actually doing (and whether it's working), and a special episode diving deep into legalisation, with voices on both sides of the argument. If you're new to the show, all 21 episodes of Season 1 are available now on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. These are the Narco Warriors.

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  2. Number 2: 22: It Could Be Your High Street: How Cartels Wash Their Dirty Billions

    You probably walk past it every day without knowing... Every drug empire produces one thing above all else: cash. Mountains of it. The International Monetary Fund estimates that between two and five trillion dollars is laundered around the world every year - and at least half a trillion comes from the drug trade alone. But how do you clean dirty money? From the black market ‘peso exchange’ to purpose-built deposit windows at high street banks, offshore shell companies, and cryptocurrency: the methods have evolved, but the goal never changes. In this episode, we follow the money with three men who spent careers tracking it: Terry Burke, former head of security at the Bank of England; Martin Dubbey, former UK customs drug liaison officer; and Phil Matthews, who worked the money trail from Washington alongside the DEA, FBI and CIA. And the answer to where the money hides might surprise you. It could be the nail bar on the corner. The barber shop you walk past every day. It could be your high street. But the cartels didn’t always have it their own way. Here’s the real sting from the investigstors on the front lines. These are the Narco Warriors. New episodes every Monday.

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  3. Number 3: 19: The Myth, The Man, The Legend: EXCLUSIVE Interview With The Undercover Officer Behind The Netflix Hit

    He spent 10 years living as someone else. He infiltrated heroin gangs, cocaine cartels and cannabis networks. Now, thanks to a hit Netflix drama, the world is finally getting to know one of Britain's most extraordinary undercover officers. “Guy” talks to Narco Warriors about the art of the “legend”, the golden rules of undercover work, and the operations that took him from the streets of West London, to meeting Pablo Escobar's cousin, via a boat that sank in the English Channel. His unbelievable story is also chronicled in The Betrayer: How An Undercover Unit Infiltrated The Global Drug Trade, written by Guy and Peter Walsh, which inspired Legends. These are the Narco Warriors. New episodes drop every Monday morning.

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  4. Number 4: 18: Crocodiles, Pablo Escobar and 300 Tonnes of Cocaine: Luis Navia In His Own Words

    For 25 years Luis Navia was one of the most wanted cocaine traffickers in the world, and almost nobody knew his name. Cuban-American, Georgetown-educated, he moved as much as 300 tonnes of cocaine from the Colombian cartels to the streets of Europe, working alongside Pablo Escobar and surviving everything the Medellín cartel, the Cali cartel, and a 12-nation operation could throw at him. This is his life as a drug trafficker, told in his own words. The plane that cartwheeled into the ocean. The sicario he invited to dinner with his parents, the kidnapping at gunpoint in Cancún, and the crocodile farm he nearly didn't leave. And finally, the fingerprint on a glass of water in a Venezuelan restaurant that brought everything crashing down. Joining him is Jesse Fink, author of "Pure Narco" - the book that took five years to write and verified 95 percent of everything Luis told him. This is the cocaine trade from the inside. 📖 "Pure Narco" by Luis Navia and Jesse Fink is available now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Narco-Luis-Navia-Jesse/dp/178946336X

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  5. Number 5: 17: The Women of the War on Drugs: “They Didn't See Us Coming"

    They joined the same institution, in the same era, in a world that was almost entirely male. But Aimee Lisle and Natalie Reynolds took very different paths. Lisle became one of Britain's top surveillance officers, tailing drug couriers, planting listening devices, and spending months secretly building a corruption case against a colleague she passed in the corridor every day. The target was Gatwick Airport's highest-seizing customs officer. As an intelligence officer at Heathrow Airport, Reynolds stopped hundreds of passengers, profiled flights from Bogota, and helped target the couriers bringing Colombian cocaine into the UK. So when her husband was posted to Bogota as a drugs liaison officer, she didn't just go along for the ride, she learned to drive defensively through a city still shaking from the cartel wars, and was trained by the SAS to grab a wounded bodyguard's weapon and shoot her way out if it came to it. Just don’t ask her to lob any grenades. Two careers. Two completely different versions of what it meant to work in drug law enforcement. Both of them would do it all again. These are the Narco Warriors. Insiders: Aime Lisle & Natalie Reynolds

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