Indian Posse: The Native Teen Gang Ruling Canada's Prisons
Danny and Richard Wolfe were barely even teenagers when they formed the Indian Posse in their mother's basement with a handful of friends, but they had already been living the street life since they w...
15 Loka 202458min
The Warring Prison Cartels Carving up Ecuador
Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Anderson recently profiled Ecuador’s young president Daniel Noboa for a piece entitled “Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos”. Jon Lee spoke ...
8 Loka 20241h 7min
The Cartel That Went to War w/Pablo Escobar: The Gentlemen of Cali
As Colombia's cocaine industry exploded in the 1980's, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel became the dominant player, capturing headlines across the world. But there was a second cartel rising up, one th...
1 Loka 202456min
How Chinese Money Launderers Took Over the Narco Underworld
When gunmen ambushed a Mexican-Chinese businessman outside his Guatemala City casino in 2016, few outside the DEA paid much attention. But the shootout presaged the downfall of a man who, feds would l...
24 Syys 202447min
The Legend of Bum Farto and the Florida Keys Cocaine
Something about Bum Farto, Key West’s fire chief, stunk. And it wasn’t just his red suits, bling and lime green company car. By the early 70s Florida’s farthest-flung outpost was a lawless drug enclav...
17 Syys 202443min
Colombia's FARC Guerillas: From Revolution to the Golden Age of Cocaine w/Toby Muse
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fought a guerrilla war against Colombia’s government - as well as against right wing militias and drug cartels - for over four decades before signing a peace...
10 Syys 20241h 14min
Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?
The Tren de Aragua grew out of disastrous regime policies to give gang leaders more power in prisons. Its mysterious leader, Niño Guerrero, soon controlled an entire facility, and installed a prison b...
3 Syys 202450min
The Westies, Psycho Killers of Hell's Kitchen and the Last of the NYC Irish Mob
In the chaos of 1970’s New York, it took a lot to shock the city. But the Westies managed to leave quite the impression. Dubbed the last of the Irish mob despite being more like an anarchic gang, they...
27 Elo 202455min
