Episode 290: Mexico's narco state - corruption, guns and the Fentanyl crisis
27 May - 51 minsMexican based author Ioan Grillo has worked as a crime journalist for more than 20 years in a country that is a true narco state.
Over two decades interviewing drug users, hitmen, cartel bosses and the politicians who take their money, Grillo has formed a unique view on the war on drugs and all the issues around it’s failings.
As a new edition of his book Blood Gun Money is published. Ioan is talking to Nicola and Niall Donald about fentanyl, a lethal iron river of firearms and a senior politician in the dock in a most unusual trial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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