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The true story of how the narcotics trade went global and how a secret war still shapes our world, told by the investigators who lived it. ***As featured in Radio Times***
Unknown Host hosts Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War, a news show with 23 episodes published.
Narco Warriors is taking a summer break, but Season 2 is coming in the autumn, and it's bigger than ever. Lindsay Charlton previews what's ahead: the scale of today's drug trade, what modern law enforcement is actually d
You probably walk past it every day without knowing... Every drug empire produces one thing above all else: cash. Mountains of it. The International Monetary Fund estimates that between two and five trillion dollars is l
This is what it means for British drug liaison officers who live with the beast. By the mid-1990s, a small and largely unknown cadre of British customs officers were living and working at the heart of the global cocaine
In April 2026, Europol announced the interception of eight vessels in the Atlantic. Eleven tonnes of cocaine were seized, and 54 people were arrested. They called it a cocaine highway - a sophisticated network moving dru
He spent 10 years living as someone else. He infiltrated heroin gangs, cocaine cartels and cannabis networks. Now, thanks to a hit Netflix drama, the world is finally getting to know one of Britain's most extraordinary u
For 25 years Luis Navia was one of the most wanted cocaine traffickers in the world, and almost nobody knew his name. Cuban-American, Georgetown-educated, he moved as much as 300 tonnes of cocaine from the Colombian cart
They joined the same institution, in the same era, in a world that was almost entirely male. But Aimee Lisle and Natalie Reynolds took very different paths. Lisle became one of Britain's top surveillance officers, tailin
They were train robbers, bank raiders and drug lords. And they'd found the perfect hideout. A sun-drenched strip of southern Spain, where Britain's most wanted went to disappear. No extradition, no questions asked. The C
They locked him up, seized his millions, and dismantled his empire piece by piece. But every single time, Mickey Green walked free. One of Britain's most wanted criminals for 30 years, Green ran cocaine and cannabis netw
Before cocaine, before cartels and before borders as we know them, there was smuggling. Former UK Customs officer and de facto drug war historian Mike Gough Cooper takes us deep into the fascinating history of what he ca
The inside scoop on the man who helped create Britain’s heroin market, and the secret war to stop him. Gigi Bakir was a ruthless Turkish Cypriot kingpin who built the UK’s first industrial-scale heroin operation in the 1
An officer kidnapped in Afghanistan, the drug Mule carrying three kilograms of cocaine in his stomach, staying alive in Africa - and taking on the Turkish Connection. They were invited to an arms fair. They ended up in c
A major UK drug trafficking investigation exposes Colombian cocaine cartels operating in London and a heroin smuggling route running through Southall. In this episode of Narco Warriors, former UK Customs and Excise inves
Most people meet Fidel Castro in history books. Alan Pamplin met him because of a drifting ship packed with cocaine. Cuba is facing one of its worst crises in decades. Blackouts, fuel shortages, and growing unrest. And t
From a secret partnership in Tehran, to the high-society smuggling scandals that rocked the British establishment, these are the extraordinary stories of the UK’s overseas drug enforcement officers. Phil Matthews walks a
Cocaine isn't just smuggled by speedboats and drug mules. For decades the cartels have built something much bigger... In the late 1990s, the cartels changed the game, constructing a floating supply chain that crisscrosse
Frankie the Strangler was one of the most feared Mafia assassins. A ruthless enforcer with alleged links to powerful crime families. But British Customs and Excise found him hiding in plain sight in a quiet English villa
You thought your first week at work was bad? How about turning up unarmed to a gunfight… It was meant to be a routine bust on a Caribbean beach. It ended with machine-gun fire and a dead body. This is Barbados in the 198
An embassy. A vengeful informant. A loaded pistol. And is it ever a good idea to send your family undercover? In the early 1990s, Thailand was the crossroads of the global drug trade. It was where power, corruption, and
A dead body in a water tank. Rogue informants. Narco submarines. Ever wonder who the government sends to the other side of the world to fight the drug trade? Meet the Drug Liaison Officers. The secret weapon in internati
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