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Homemade Landing Strips for Drug Traffickers
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58:22 - 1:04:22 (05:59)

Drug traffickers are using homemade landing strips in flooded areas of rivers in South America, where small planes swoop in and pick up drugs to be transported to Brazil.

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A transcript describes the difficulties of flying planes loaded with drugs over the Amazon rainforest, where the pilots rely on makeshift landing strips on the rivers dotted with homemade landing strips in order to pick up drugs and escape to Brazil.
58:22 - 1:02:06 (03:43)
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Drug trafficking
Summary

A transcript describes the difficulties of flying planes loaded with drugs over the Amazon rainforest, where the pilots rely on makeshift landing strips on the rivers dotted with homemade landing strips in order to pick up drugs and escape to Brazil.

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Homemade Landing Strips for Drug Traffickers
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A journalist recalls a risky experience landing on a druglord's private runway and encountering armed guards, all while investigating a story about a secret cabal planning a coup in the US.
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Investigative journalism
Summary

A journalist recalls a risky experience landing on a druglord's private runway and encountering armed guards, all while investigating a story about a secret cabal planning a coup in the US.

Chapter
Homemade Landing Strips for Drug Traffickers
Episode
The Sordid History of Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties
Podcast
Stuff You Should Know