Danny Golds
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1,181 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Danny Golds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Albanians are heavy in Europe and the Bronx, but I did not know that they had a presence in West Africa, but it makes sense, obviously.
In May of 2026, Washington designates the PCC and the other massive Brazilian gang, the Red Command, as foreign terrorist organizations.
So yeah, the PCC making big moves and the cocaine flowing out of Brazil is on various routes.
One of the big ones runs from Brazil to West Africa and then up into Europe.
Per the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, seizures on the Brazil to West Africa route, quote, increased dramatically from 435 kilograms in 2014 to more than 27 tons in 2019.
That is a serious, serious amount of growth, like exponential, man.
And the overall picture keeps getting bigger.
Insight Crime reports that Brazil's federal police seized 74.5 tons of coke in 2024 alone, and that's just the powder that they catch.
The UN reports that global cocaine production hit another all-time record in 2023, up about 34% in a single year.
So Brazil is flowing.
Enter their own version of Pablo Escobar.
Sergio Roberto de Carvalho is born on April 18, 1958, in a town called Ibipura, I'm not even going to bother, in Parana State in southern Brazil.
While he's still young, the family moves to Campo Grande, the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, which is the state that runs alongside the Bolivian and Paraguayan border.
His parents, they run a snack bar.
I mean, it's got to be a dream for a kid, right?
Just especially like a working class kid.
Parents running a snack bar, dude, doesn't get any better than that.
His sister, who's going to come back in the story later, she works the family counter as a teenager.
I actually, Dale, do you remember this?
I worked the counter of a roast beef sandwich shop after graduation from journalism school.
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