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Jonquilyn Hill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1873 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

You know, when we think about sort of the Narcos Netflix series, right?

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

That is not how it works these days.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

It is not about hierarchy.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

It's about being strategic.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

It's about developing alliances.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

It's about who you know.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

And sometimes you don't even need that many people to move cocaine.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

You just need to know the right people in the right ports.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

and the people who can get the drugs across one border into another and who can ship it off to Europe.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

And sometimes it's just about, you know, having those few people who can make that work and building from there.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

And it's a low bar of entry, basically.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

And I think that's what Triton Rejepi exemplifies.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

So we have a global cocaine trade that's acting like a lot of legal supply change for stuff that's in demand.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

But this is not legal.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

How is law enforcement dealing with this new era of the cocaine trade?

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

So the answer to that depends on whether you're talking about last year or this year under the Trump administration.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

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.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

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

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

at sea that they allege are drug traffickers moving drugs to the United States.

Today, Explained
The cocaine comeback

The Trump administration is saying that this is a threat, that these are