Tons of cheap cocaine is hitching a ride on the global supply chain for fruit
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In December, the Big Take podcast told the wild story of drug smugglers who hid 20 tons of cocaine aboard huge container ships bound for Europe from South America — and explained what the record breaking bust meant for the global shipping and the drug trade. Today, we pickup the next chapter of the saga and try to answer: what happens to all that cocaine once it reaches port?Bloomberg investigative reporters Lauren Etter and Vernon Silver join this episode to talk about how a sophisticated network of drug cartels and traffickers recruit young people to sneak the cocaine off the ships and coerce dockworkers to look the other way — and how law enforcement is trying to stop cheap cocaine from flooding the streets of Europe, without grinding global trade to a halt.
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