Cartel Land: How Acapulco went from Sinatra Singing to Sicarios Shooting

Cartel Land: How Acapulco went from Sinatra Singing to Sicarios Shooting

Acapulco has become one of Mexico's, and the world's, bloodiest cities. It saw a stunning 127 murders per 100,000 people in 2019, making it the most murderous city in the world. It's a long way from it's previous reputation as the premier vacation destination for the rich and famous with everyone from JFK to Frank Sinatra to Liz Taylor singing it's praises. So how did a tropical paradise go from spring break hotspot to shootouts and severed heads? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Cuba’s New Synthetic Drug Wave

Cuba’s New Synthetic Drug Wave

How Cuba is Slipping into Drug Chaos Since the beginning of the year, the US has placed Cuba under an oil embargo, crippling its public services and throwing a society that was already on its knees...

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Cuba: From Lansky’s Casinos to Castro’s Guns

Cuba: From Lansky’s Casinos to Castro’s Guns

Sean got beaten up in Cuba! To celebrate this, we’ve thrown together a biopoly of crime in the tropics, beginning with the story of how American organized crime flocked to Havana in the 1920s as a Pro...

6 Okt 59min

Stash House: Cartel Wars, Coke Boats, and Gangs Gone Global

Stash House: Cartel Wars, Coke Boats, and Gangs Gone Global

Danny and Sean take another lap around the criminal world, where somehow everything is getting bigger, stranger, and more international. Sinaloa’s cartel war grinds on, Romanian crews allegedly drain ...

29 Sep 1h 3min

Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe

Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe

In the picturesque Montenegrin port of Kotor, a cocaine trafficking partnership fractured into one of Europe’s bloodiest gang wars. A dispute over a drug shipment in Spain in 2014 split the organizati...

22 Sep 1h 15min

The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar

The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar

In our final episode on the rise and fall and rise of the Pablo Escobar of Pakistan, he negotiates his own surrender to the DEA, maneuvers his way into the U.S. while dodging Pakistani intelligence ag...

15 Sep 52min

How an Albanian Mobster Derailed MAGA Island

How an Albanian Mobster Derailed MAGA Island

In Albania's turbulent Nineties, the small, seaside town of Vlore became a gangster’s paradise, playing host to hundreds of crooks ferrying drugs, weapons and people into nearby Puglia alongside Itali...

8 Sep 1h 5min

The Biggest Unknown Drug Dealer in US History

The Biggest Unknown Drug Dealer in US History

He might just be the biggest US drug smuggler you’ve never heard of. 1.3 billion in product moved. 16 different aliases. Bank accounts in 10 countries. A phantom, and a logistical genius. Stewart Newt...

1 Sep 1h 11min

Shafted: How Cartels are Killing for Rare-Earths

Shafted: How Cartels are Killing for Rare-Earths

Bolivia's Cerro Rico has been spewing out tons of silver for centuries. It was the economic bellows of the Spanish Revolution, whose lust for the precious metal came at the price of some eight million...

25 Aug 44min

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