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The Meth SuperCartels Destroying Tropical Paradise

2024/6/25
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Yolanda Tuhaver:讲述了其丈夫Hame卷入贩毒集团的故事,以及他们最终被杀害的经过。她描述了丈夫与非法摩托车俱乐部Comancheros的关系,以及Comancheros与拉丁美洲贩毒集团的联系。她还描述了事发当晚的细节,以及她自己被枪击的经历。 Sean Williams:详细介绍了太平洋毒品走私路线,以及这条路线对新西兰和太平洋岛国的影响。他讨论了澳大利亚驱逐帮派成员导致新西兰帮派活动加剧的问题,以及墨西哥贩毒集团参与太平洋毒品走私的情况。他还提到,一些太平洋岛国正面临着日益严重的国内毒品需求问题。 Danny Gold:与Sean Williams一起主持节目,并对Sean Williams的叙述进行补充和评论。他讨论了中国政府打击国内冰毒生产导致生产转移到东南亚的问题,以及澳大利亚摩托车帮派与中国三合会合作的情况。他还讨论了毒品走私的利润率极高,以及贩毒集团利用腐败和恐吓来控制走私路线的问题。 Bruce Berry:新西兰海关调查员,他描述了501s(被驱逐到新西兰的澳大利亚帮派成员)对新西兰犯罪活动的影响,以及贩毒集团日益增长的暴力和威胁。他指出,新西兰的腐败通常与金钱有关,而贩毒集团则使用恐吓和威胁来控制走私路线。 Jared Savage:撰写了关于新西兰帮派和毒品犯罪的书籍,他表达了对新西兰帮派未来走向的担忧,并指出,敌对帮派联合起来对抗外国入侵者,可能只是为了保护自己的地盘。

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The Pacific region is being transformed by the meth and cocaine trade, leading to mass murder, government corruption, and addiction. Local communities are being corrupted, and traditional gang structures are being disrupted.

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For years the Pacific region, and its tiny, tropical nations, steered clear of the global meth and cocaine trade. But politics, war and wild profit margins have pushed ships and planes out from Latin America to Australia across a new ‘drug highway.’

The phenomenon is prompting mass murder, crippling governments, and creating a wave of addiction where none existed. Locals are getting corrupted into becoming cartel ‘doors.’ And local gang underworlds have been upended, uprooted and hunted down like never before. Unless something changes, it'll be Paradise Lost.

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