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Homemade Landing Strips for Drug Traffickers
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)
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.
ChapterHomemade Landing Strips for Drug Traffickers
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Investigative journalism
Summary
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