Cocaine Mafia

white people love introducing others to things that kill.

what song is playing at the end?

does anyone know what video camera model is he using?

WoW! they pay way more than we do here.

I Love current!... not seen in years disappearing sometime in the 80s... the news is back! 1 CONCERN As a person who has been QUITE DDEEP in that other world...called the underworld... I beg you please be carefu!THINK! MAFIA means army eyes and ears are everywhere! and with cell phones anything and EVERYTHING gets around fast! not be showing their faces! those poor african people.. in the game &YOU SHOWED THEIR FACES! if they are not dead already, then they can't work, you think he won't get known on the border from this ?if you show his face on the internet? they do have internet on the ivory coast and in sicily.!!!!..? by the authorities?its illegal. PLEASE BE CAREFUL we can get the story you're reporting on without actually SEEING the guys telling you... blur them shoot their shoes whatever but the foot soldiers in the drug trade and the prostitutes working off their smugglers fee... showing their faces and identifiable stuff is like signing their death warrant ... please as a dealer I beg you! rats die...
I grew up all over the world
I've been in some really poor places
refugee camps
remember sitting a tent in a REFUGEE camp with kids around my age in the phillippines outside subik... watching on a TV who framed roger rabbit on a video playing in a VCR.. all bought on the black market... same year it came out in theaters... we didn't even have it IN THE US on videO yet.!...Do not for one minute think they are not as current as you...
These people are sometimes so innocent and genuine without guile and want so bad to be like us...are fascinated by the west and cool kids from the west and they will of Course want to tell you impress you!
they want you to like them. especially in africa they want you adopt them and take them away.
they will always share their story freely...and without thought to consequence cause they don't know any better... any different...
so sad to watch that those guys wanted to impress u soo bad.
but please know those people were working in one of the deadliest drug/slave trade rings that has gone on for centuries... That part of sicily ... you have no idea of what eyes and ears everywhere is... a white person going in amongst them is enough... You should be more secretive! About visiting them and filming them how much you expose about the routes! and maybe warning them not to tell to many people they will be on tv... protect them a bit better. but I love the fact you are getting their stories... We need REAL DRUG EDUCATION! everywhere. And My concept of real drug education means informing people on the reality so they can make their own decisions armed with facts.just say no is a failure. war on drugs is POINTLESS.LEGALIZE IT.regulate& To anyone who reports on drug rings GUNsmugglingProstitution slave trade anything illegal Please think about who's life or livelihood you might just be endingsometimes the people they work for are BRUTAL...RESPECT

What is the point of censoring for language on the internet?

amazing report.

It would be a great report if the stupid pop up ads didn't make the videos audio stop working. Please fix this!! I've always loved this source of video journalism but I think its very invasive to have ads for 10 year olds video games on a documentary about cocaine.. At least make the ads relevant to the viewers..

great report indeed

Great report.

Wonderful. I'm a little ashamed to say that I live here in Italy but the media never talked about the Castel Volturno rebellion. I would like to point out that Camorra is not a family but one of the three mafias of Italy. Camorra in Naples, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the three systems are similar and are composed of various families.

I understand that it must be very difficult to be an addict but this documentary really shows how individual decisions and lack of responsibility and accountability has such a greater effect on the lives of others , this is the commodity chain that cocaine use crates, suffering and death. I wish all of those people using cocaine for leisure or just to be :cool" would watch this documentary, I'm sure it will make hem think twice before they snore the next line of cocaine. Thanks for telling such hard and difficult reality with this report Christof

Wonderful report!

Just unbelievable what control drugs have over our world.

Great pod and informative as always. I just wanted to make a recommendation to Current viewers who are interested on this subject to watch the movie "Gomorrah." It's a shockingly accurate portrayal of this situation in Italy. But warning: it's not for the squeamish.

wow.
This was an amazing eye opening piece of work.
Thank you, Christof for shinning light on the issue. Drugs are still a huge problem here and all over the world. There must be something done.

I spent last summer in Ireland and England and was shocked a bit by endless, inexpensive and high quality cocaine was everywhere. Two years ago it was E(molly) now its a gagger in the loo instead of a snog and a pint.

I think today's news of California looking to legalize marijuana will be a huge step in reducing abuse of harder drugs. I truly hope within the decade we see the end of prohibition, as our grandparents saw the end of alcohol prohibition.

Thank You for highlighting this drug problem Vanguard! I have read and researched about drug trafficking in Italy before and am glad that you guys are informing others about this. I would have never imagined Italy as what you have showed. Wow...
It really pissed me off to see the middle class young white kids getting away with snorting coke when a few nations away people are living in unimaginable poverty and crime. Thank You for also bringing up the issue on human trafficking. Drugs and human trafficking are linked, as some women are also forced to sell drugs. I also felt that a 30 second interview with a trafficked victim was too little. Human trafficking in Italy is as much of an epidemic if not larger than the cocaine mafia among African immigrants. Maybe next season there can be an episode dedicated to that?

Again, thanks Vanguard for your hard efforts, by putting your lives in danger to educate the public about what is really going on in the world!

Woah, this is kinda mind blowing. I knew that coke was a popular drug of use, but I didn't think the numbers were so epic. Very interesting....

I got chills when the man in minute 10:06 said "the little stone is so sweet that it tares one's life". That phrase made me remember an independent documentary made in colombia about the public defenders in that country, when a man who used to be a police man or belonged to the military (can't remember) after going to jail for homicide, got adicted to "basuco" a drug very comon in Colombia made with coke, brick powder and gasoline, very much like crack. And said "eso es el diablo en polvo", that translates to "that is powdered devil".
Before you ask i can't remember the documentary's name

eyeopening as usuall, thank you for my weekly dose of truth

this sucks. Very interesting story. It makes me realize yet again how some people don't realize how good they have it in this world. Clearly, even a junkie out of the slums of England, has got it better than a west african living in casa volturno, Italy.

another awesome Vanguard! LOVE your guy's work!

This was very insightful and brought to the forefront problems that are not commonly talked about on the news. Great journalistic documenting. By the end I nearly had tears in my eyes, it was so sad and depressing.

Snorting cocaine on camera yet you bleep fucks and shits.

once you know the whole story do you still want to use this shit - would using this drug still have the same meaning to you...how about of you grew the stuff yourself and you did not obtain it through corrupt means?
can you relate it to eating meat after knowing and seeing how cows are stored and slaughtered? just a thought anyway...I think we have way too many coping skills and have become callous in our ways to care anymore.

The only way to stop the harm, deaths, pilitrickans and needless killing is to follow Transforms plan for a 10 year Exit stategy from the war on human beings who use drugs both legal and illegal- in short THE ABOLITION OF PROHIBITION.
Prohibtion is not about preventing drug related harm, the health of individuals and/or the many communitys of which they are part.
It is all about the protection and projection of political, military, economic and strategic interests of a a tranglobal elite , the mandarins, scribes, sycophants and all who worship Leviathen and suckle on Mammom's teats.
Under prohibtion we have a free for all where any person of any age , irrespective of health and mental state, can score any psychoactive substance- at any time of day or night in any place- anywhere in the globalised world.

If prohibition was intended to stop the 'flow of drugs' then after 70+ years it's time someone had the courage to say this 'Emperor has no clothes' time is up and introduce a regulated market in drugs with the emphasis on public and peronal health, harm reduction , risk minimisation, human rights, empowerment and informed choice predicated on knowlege, respect for each others choices, with an emphasis on the health care needs of those who develop problems as a result of drug and/or alcohol/tobacco use paid for by levying a low tax on all pharmakons (drugs) sold under regulated conditions. (Tax too high and you will encourage a black market).

From the League of Nations prohibtion of the trade in opium, designed and lobbied for by US business interests who wanted to cosy up to the nationalist chinese at the expence of Britsh imperialism associated with the opium trade and three opium wars and thereby gain access to the huge chinese market for goods, food stuffsa and strategic materials. Through to the Allied Landings in Sicily under Mafia Colours- having done a deal with lucky luciano- giving the Sicilian Mafia control of the US heroin trade- also part payment for the Mafia clearing the US dockyards of Nazi fifth columnists and supporters. Onto VIetnam and Air America- the Coca Cola factory in Cambodia opend by Nixon which never manufactured a can or bottle of pepsi but produced some of the best double 00 brand heroin in the world. Onto- Ollie North and the Iran -Conta- Cocaine epedmic - North more than any other US 'hero' desrves credit for almost single handldly starting the crack cocaine 'epedemic'. Lest we forget US sponsorship of Right Wing Cocaine dealing Paramilitary groups in Central and South America - oh and Osma Bin Laden and others given free reign to run heroin out of the Golden Crescent in return for guns and the war against the soviets- how that worm has turned.
Lest we forget- some of the UK's greatest finacial institutions, Jardine Mathesons Bank for example- made their wealth in the Opium and Slave trades- and we must not neglect those other drugs sugar and rum. As well as deep throat whispers of British Military security service personel doing drug runs spending UK Gov contingancy funds on puff-that's the first 'wash', driving it to northern europe where it is laundered again by selling the drugs for cash and then buying guns to arm certain right wing protestant paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during the troubles in return for hits on repblic sympathisers, lawyers, and other 'trouble makers'.

So lets not kid ourselves into believing that any apologists for prohibtion are altruists and caring human beings- no they long exchanged their human values for wealth, advancement, a career (prohibtion is BIG BUSINESS), publicity, political gain and strategic advantage. Oh and none of this nonsense about Lizard reptiles from outer space- we produce monsters enough of our own.

great pod

I'm so not surprised that heavier drugs are becoming fashionable in Europe, after all, the west has been waging war on and reducing the availability of the small drugs, so what are people going do, of course!

"curious why authorities can't stop it"...its been said that in NYC, the hard stuff never made it into the white neighborhoods, but did in the black ones. Same accusations in LA. Need to figure out why they let this go, but they can do "full spectrum dominance" for oil!

wow, what an amazing documentary. i would have never heard about this conflict if it wasn't for Current. Thank you for that.

so what do we do?
what can we do?

suggestions? i mean to say, if you could change the world immediately, on a grand scale, what would you realistically change?

i cant think of an effective way for every1 to live well together.
communism proposes that every1 should be equal.
but "communist" governments always tend to turn out bad rather than good.
every1 is equal, the higher class are just more equal.

We live on a strikingly small world shrinking everyday, with borders being breeched and the oceans raising it won’t be long now. Soon the world will be one huge ghetto full of the poor killing themselves at work for food and drugs all while supplying the elite with their treasures on small secluded islands eating drinking and being merry as rest of the world suffers. It won’t be long now…

Great job Vanguard. I had no idea of this African drug connection in Italy, of all places.

You know i seen that before, oh yeah in USA, in the end of the 80's. That Regan dude with his Cia leader Bush, put the drugs in the inner city in USA. to fund a War in Nicaragua, its a dam shame how the devils work. Havent they rape afrika enough, havent they tried to kill them off with all kind of diseases. and starvation. This is the Illuminati at its best. to disturb the energy in them people. cause they know they rule on earth is up. Time for the reptiles to go back in the caves underground. The sun is bout to get real hot in 3years. and they know it. its just a damn shame, and you think cause they wear suits. they civilize and you call the bush people animals. I only see the ones in suits killing people and raping people of hummanity. I see the suits in congress going to war and taking people land, so who is the animals the people who live off the land like God said do. or The suits who is nothing but canibals who eat raw meat and sacrifice kids and women and have sex with men all for oil. I hate these Elites of the world. this is a dam shame. peace out and 1love to hummanity.

This is a very interesting report. This is raw journalism, being able to put yourself in risky situations to get a good report. I didn't know about the large cocaine usage in europe and the mafia luring of africans into drug trafficking. This is a sad yet harsh reality full of paradoxes. The video on oxycontin by vanguard is pretty interesting too. Keep up the good work vanguard! =)

Super depressing...

Amazing.

Great Report! Very accurate in describing the lure of quick money offered to mules and young Nigerian women looking for a better future. On a number of occasions I have advised my Nigerian friends to avoid these promises, however, with little future here they are easy victims.

Wow! Another great pod from Christof. I had no idea Europeans were using so much cocaine. I thought it was just the US. I also never knew Africa was involved in trafficking it or that some place like this even existed in Europe. Very enlightening and disturbing. Maybe those Brits in the bars would stop using cocaine if they knew about this...but probably not. Thank you Vanguard as always!

I totally agree! There aren't too many places these days where you can see real journalism without the sensationalism that takes away from an already interesting story. I am surprised to find out that these problems are in other places as I always saw the depth of the poverty and drug use as an American one. The sad thing is that there is no answer for these problems. It will continue forever. Thanks to current for keeping it really... umm...real.

Watching this pod made me more conscious of that rough reality! This is though!

I love Vanguard.... I think its the best show on TV.Who else is reporting this kind of stuff and why aren't more people doing it? These guys put themselves into danger almost every week for the story..... Bravo