Fidel Castro: Cuba’s Cocaine Trafficker-in-Chief?

Fidel Castro: Cuba’s Cocaine Trafficker-in-Chief?

In 1959, when Fidel Castro’s revolutionaries toppled Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, they wasted no time booting out American business owners, casinos and drug kingpins — much to the delight of US law enforcers. But as time passed, and Castro’s socialist regime sought ever-trickier income streams, the Caribbean island proved an irresistible stepping stone for cartels getting product from the Andes through Central America into Florida. Ambassadors, generals, and madcap American financiers: they were all on the take. But was El Jefe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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FREE BONUS PATREON EPISODE: COLOMBIAN CARTELS WITH TOBY MUSE

FREE BONUS PATREON EPISODE: COLOMBIAN CARTELS WITH TOBY MUSE

Decided to make this free, it's the first of our many bonus episodes up on the patreon, where we'll focus on interviewing experts, journalists, and well-connected individuals. Toby Muse is a journalis...

24 Syys 202056min

The Brutal Human Trafficking Syndicates of Southeast Asia

The Brutal Human Trafficking Syndicates of Southeast Asia

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been made by a vicious network of organized crime figures throughout Southeast Asia by preying on what the United Nations has called "the most persecuted people in...

22 Syys 202054min

Dawood Ibrahim, India’s D Company, and the Mumbai Attacks

Dawood Ibrahim, India’s D Company, and the Mumbai Attacks

Few names strike fear into the hearts of Indians quite like Dawood Ibrahim. From a Mumbai slum he built his 'D Company' into the country's biggest mafia. Then he did something truly shocking. Learn mo...

15 Syys 202049min

Ireland's Deadly Gang War: The Hutch Kinahan Feud

Ireland's Deadly Gang War: The Hutch Kinahan Feud

Tyson Fury, large amounts of cocaine, public executions at press conferences, and Estonian hitmen - Ireland's war between the Hutchs and the Kinahans, one of the biggest drug trafficking cartels in Eu...

8 Syys 20201h 2min

Arkan's Tigers and the new Serbian Mafia

Arkan's Tigers and the new Serbian Mafia

Arkan started off a bankrobber and a hitman before becoming the leader of a vicious paramilitary group that committed war crimes. He grew rich off the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the wars that fo...

1 Syys 202044min

The Dangerous Crime Clans of Berlin

The Dangerous Crime Clans of Berlin

Berlin is Europe's party capital. But since the 1980's, another kind of club has taken over the city - and not always quietly. Lebanese-Kurdish "problematic families" have taken hold, and one Tony Sop...

1 Syys 202043min

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Welcome to the Underworld Podcast, a weekly series where journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams take you into the secret world of transnational organized crime with all the associated warlords, mobs...

25 Elo 20204min

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