Jonquilyn Hill
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You know, when we think about sort of the Narcos Netflix series, right?
That is not how it works these days.
It's about developing alliances.
And sometimes you don't even need that many people to move cocaine.
You just need to know the right people in the right ports.
and the people who can get the drugs across one border into another and who can ship it off to Europe.
And sometimes it's just about, you know, having those few people who can make that work and building from there.
And it's a low bar of entry, basically.
And I think that's what Triton Rejepi exemplifies.
So we have a global cocaine trade that's acting like a lot of legal supply change for stuff that's in demand.
How is law enforcement dealing with this new era of the cocaine trade?
So the answer to that depends on whether you're talking about last year or this year under the Trump administration.
Last year we were following, and I think the focus was on trying to dismantle the criminal structures from the top and fast forward to this year and in the current moment we're in, the Trump administration has taken a vastly different approach.
And they have had this massive buildup of the military, in particular the Navy, in the Caribbean and in many parts of the waters in Latin America and have been bombing, essentially attacking, striking drug boats
at sea that they allege are drug traffickers moving drugs to the United States.
The Trump administration is saying that this is a threat, that these are