How does a top Colombian smuggler get cocaine past Europe's sniffer dogs? - BBC

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Southern Spain, famous for its beaches and sunshine, has become the main gateway for drugs into Europe. Violent turf wars between drug cartels have caused the government to issue a crackdown. For the last two years, the police have been fighting to take back control.
In this compelling film, Stacey gains unique access to the police, the dealers and the smugglers. She goes out on patrol with the air force team of the Guardia Civil and is invited along to witness a night-time raid in an attempt to arrest a cartel suspect they have been watching for two years.
To understand why this part of Spain sees so much cocaine, Stacey travels to the source - Apartado, Colombia. There she meets one of the biggest smugglers in the region. Faced with highly organised criminal gangs and the insatiable demand for drugs in Europe, Stacey debates whether this a war the police can ever win.
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[@7770robi]

Imagine your homie filming a documentary on how you smuggle drugs together lmao

[@njanc5473]

There is no need to imagine it, in this documentary it is very clear who is the real smuggler

[@luckyluciano4075]

@@njanc5473 the lady

[@18Bees]

People suddenly searching through bananas at the grocery store.

[@andykanani5671]

🤣

[@rogerward9492]

Stacey has done so many documentaries to save the world. Then she asked will the authorities ever win the drug war, my 5 year old son could give the answer to that.

[@theconsciousmovement9669]

We are totally not here to learn how to smuggle the drugs without the dogs knowing.

[@ratatata7962]

I'm here to teach that 😂

[@Jason52597]

Alcohol also kills and poisons people but is legal...

[@L0CALDRUGMAN]

Cocaine fuckdsup you and u will waste all ur moneys into it and become very addicted. Alcohol doesnt cause that

[@alfiemahoney5496]

@@L0CALDRUGMAN alcohol does the same thing 😂

[@L0CALDRUGMAN]

@@alfiemahoney5496 alcohol doesnt make u addict easily. People use alcohol to cope with hardcore anxiety, depression.

[@charmaineforrestdanrte1803]

@@L0CALDRUGMAN that's not true. As a recovered alcoholic and recovered addict I can tell you that isn't true lol,, it is in the sense you'll be sick from alcohol and not go back but that'd be it,, cos I mean once addicted (it only takes days) as I was but am long time clean now lol🎀✨✨✨🌙

[@charmaineforrestdanrte1803]

The government make money from alcohol!!!🎀

[@robbypatrisio9589]

Certainly, there are people in Colombian govt that are benefiting from drug trades.

[@anthonyromano8565]

You mean the entire economy.

[@njanc5473]

You're right! There are politicians involved in this. Old and rich families that have the power

[@blackstudios3889]

Say no to drugs social awareness real story kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpKskqKkebGAaqc

[@pjduff7577]

When your choices are plato or plomo which would you take

[@guruxara7994]

Not only in Colombia, but in Europe too, how do you think that these drugs reach most European countries?

[@7770robi]

Good man, keep up the good work ❤

[@isj032]

Why would he reveal his methods jeopardising his business?

[@Skunkhunt_42]

Just laughing at this wholesome woman hanging out , asking simple questions

[@ashb702]

She ain't that wholesome. I've done coke n ket with her at a party in ibiza.

[@user-gi7fq5of6e]

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[@golodopra4755]

staceys deffinately done a bit

[@frozentits_records1691]

I love how drug dealers judt give out their secrets to these people 😂😂😂 i mean there's no stopping it but still

[@davidcml1363]

"If" this is legit-somebodies going to be avoiding that staff meeting🤣

[@user-gi7fq5of6e]

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[@ypure3859]

chill reporter..makes a nice change.

[@glenchrispin2143]

It’s like one devil asking another devil to justify murder. I come from a place where the old saying is. “ the product will sell itself. Not sniff “

[@MaxwellHero]

And after he blew up her mind

[@donlashley1097]

This is the best baron ever

[@tomwaldron5643]

Always thought that nose was big enough to Hoover up some norti lines

[@dc7370]

Thank you. Excellent video. A detailed logistics study of investment and product would show that it’s impossible to hide - note a Swiss and Italian study of sewer water stated that consumption is twice as was estimated. -Corrupt state

[@narcismataruga3963]

I am puzzled by this segment. I can't make my mind up as to whether this is a brilliant decoy or the worlds dumbest smuggler.

[@virgil291]

Compliments to BBC....dumbest kid on the block .....after CNN

[@MegaBspark]

its not exactly a secret, its not how and where, its corruption. gibralter is one of the gateways for this incredibly lucrative market for eu

[@larrycarol6693]

Dogs are pretty tough to beat. Commercially sealed steel boxes are best bet

[@randompianist8359]

he said nothing the police don't already know, he's obviously an actor. the only legit drug interviews are with people that aren't in game anymore. a real druglord gains nothing from talking to the bbc except endangering their own life lol

[@hulkhogan8433]

@@randompianist8359 ok Pablo lol

[@krisskriss3781]

I'd love to hear other stories about Colombia (which is an amazing country) and not the same bullshit about the cocaine trade/business.

[@jasonhull7668]

I practically live here in beautiful Colombia and I don't care about cocaine at all.

[@davechristian7543]

@@jasonhull7668 well thats your problem lol

[@jimmorrison3756]

Just keep growing them Coca plants !! 😉✌👃👀.

[@nancyc1585]

c'mon BBC are you run out of content? Who cares about drugs, just snort the one you have on your desk!

[@ornamejesus777]

I bet Michael gove is top of the list of customers.

[@AngelReyes-vc1be]

Same way it always got here

[@gazturaijohnson8365]

Wouldn't like to share a line with her with them nostrils 😂😂

[@tajmacbrasilltda4133]

i love that accent!!!

[@loandbehold650]

Why not like that??

[@anonymousjoker946]

He's definitely lost his job

[@AngelRodriguez-qh3ko]

😎yes

[@utv5490]

How is she working at the BBC and not in recruitment?

[@lance8080]

Crooked customs agents let drug smuggling persist.

[@hisroyalhighness8566]

She just did this report because she was tired of getting ripped off and wanted to score some good beak

[@seanvarian4578]

She's pissed on her chips though if less comes through the boarders lol.

[@bigbaruhhh5906]

that thumbnail tho.

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Look at what they say about drugs on vice news another KZbin channel.🤯🤯

[@jonathandaoust2895]

Magnifique la demoiselle je lui en ferais moi aussi des interview!

[@devkkev9066]

thank god dea, fbi,europol and bka see this video. may this helps a bit to catch up to them. wish you and your loved ones just the best! keep up your smile & the good work too..

[@Bryan-gj2jk]

its not gonna tell anything they don’t already know

[@jay55148]

Poison ☠

[@joewedg3703]

I plan on doing some investigating this weekend meself 👍🏻 will be a long night and cost a few hundred quid, but definitely worth it 😁

[@korrroryswiatamojetwojenas1988]

Banalne Banany Cocainowy Cocktail jest Bardzo Dobry i naturalny roślinny czyż źle piszę... Dobry Film był taki okres w mojm życiu , bardzo Smaczny był i kupę kasy wydałem i już bym nie wyciągnął ręki po to... Nie ma mowy od tego czasu jak crac zaczął być Grany to zasmakowałem rok prawie cały ale ktoś wyciągnął pomocną dłoń i od tego czasu a minęło już 14 lat czy może 20 lat temu... Pozdr... Życzę byś nie musiał próbować... Dziękuję Serdeczne Pozdr z Polski z Warszawy

[@mk-tn8eo]

dam bro, I just stick to acid, some of my family lives in Warsaw too

[@AngelReyes-vc1be]

Well why are our prices so damn high.

[@PsylentSir]

*It's CHIQUITA, AND THE SHIP'S FROM EU FLAG STATE IS FROM (SEATRADE) SHIPS*

[@vanessabling72]

Love Stacey

[@larrycarol6693]

Dude is middle man. Doesn’t have network to get product from Venezuela to Spain

[@ryanneliza]

I’m so interested in how she even got this interview lol

[@njanc5473]

She's a loyal customer, that's why

[@mikelmikes310]

What do the smugglers gain when they grant interviews like these?

[@cypto-future4649]

They gain fast track to death.

[@sanansa4567]

I think the ones that grant interviews are sometimes just small time operators that just like attention.

[@YTube900]

Diversion .

[@pirateking7040]

I want your contakt hermano !!!

[@djphlange]

You don't go to Columbia and not try coke

[@terryturns9646]

Why do we spend so much Money on the war on drugs, why not just leagalise it

[@cartestgroupoy2441]

Well but they could grow legal crops in the exact same way if there is existing transportation methods.

[@i.AmHymn]

👀... Htf is this not snitching? 🤷🏾‍♂️ 🤦🏾‍♂️ Hymn

[@njanc5473]

It is. But she's a well known customer. How could they deny her the interview?

[@naughtynanuk]

Really good piece, but the narrators enunciation is hard on the ears her S's are harsh. 😳

[@monalott6457]

It's a trillion dollar business and can not be stopped.

[@MM-ty6cu]

Covid certainly put a damper on it.

[@monalott6457]

@@MM-ty6cu I am sure it did but the people that run the world always get what they want.

[@ElikoKen]

@@MM-ty6cu even covid19 cant stop this big bussiness, is a lot of money

[@chrisherrera8384]

If you have a good route that gives you golden eggs why in the world would you brag about it on a documentary.

[@Brad-k]

Hey it works, so beit!

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[@thesavageonels9104]

Take the crop to Europe and make it there

[@dannybesra3337]

I have the same plan

[@69.nitishnaryal57]

Banana + cocaine = ?

[@trashypine6198]

Diarrhea

[@oscarkhw3593]

I fancy here

[@tj3988]

He said the snitches end up dead but if he's part of any kind of reputable cartel, he's dead as he's making a snitching documentary which is a whole new scale of snitching.

[@antoniss_7723]

Hey ich fande dat suppi macht weiter sooo.

[@thomasboyd6016]

easy inside cows and horses literally

[@KonthaarXVII]

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[@stevemill8959]

How come there is only shitty meth where I live in the states. MAKE COCAINE GREAT AGAIN

[@user-gi7fq5of6e]

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[@WasabiDreams]

Stacey irritates me a bit. Louis is definitely a national treasure

[@moviesforrandy]

it is all about the pay offs.

[@emmaflavell3341]

Did you hear the bit where she says " you can just pop your cocaine into containers" He should have replied in heavy Columbian dialect " You can just pop your teeth into a dental mould at the nearest orthodontist meanwhile avoid words ending in or beginning with 'sh'"

[@SalMightyOne]

"ColOmbian", not "Columbian"!

[@7770robi]

Why is she talking to him in english but he understands and responds in spanish? So many questions

[@futuregirl8803]

Most likely had a translator with her? 🤔 😁

[@Gblonkers]

GoodGuy you idiot lol

[@markusbergen506]

Why if she understands his Spanish does she reply in English?

[@Matyi123]

stacey is too cute

[@user-gi7fq5of6e]

☝️☝️💊💊🍄🍫🔌🔌

[@soflodoug]

This is a fake interview 😆🤣

[@leffersuckit2818]

You could've used euro you could've used dollar. But no you choose to use british pounds like i would understand that

[@qasimmir7117]

That’s because it’s a British programme from a British TV service with a British journalist so obviously the currency will be pound sterling. Why would you not expect that? Not everywhere is America or EU.

[@marioalfonso3214]

Venezuela have oil , brazil forest , panama have the crosins river , COLOMBIA IS THE COKE so !!! Firt source of money lol

[@janalejandroguerreroospina5547]

Solo muestran lo malo de Colombia y por ESO LA gente piensa que todos traficamos ó consumimos drogas

[@njanc5473]

Es lamentable, pero así es. Lo curioso es que nos critican pero bien que si les gustaría ser parte del negocio. En sus países hablan mal de Colombia pero una vez en Medellín pagan lo que sea por ver la tumba de Pablo y probar todo tipo de sustancias. Son unos doble moralistas. Y ni hablar de los periodistas de la BBC con farras pesadas en Londres, llenas de todo tipo de sustancias. Y ni hablar de cuando viajan a Suramérica, supuestamente a "investigar". No me sorprende que la periodista haya logrado esta entrevista tan fácil, al fin y al cabo es una cliente frecuente. ¡Cómo le iban a negar la entrevista! Mira, viajando al exterior me di cuenta que efectivamente tenemos mala fama, pero al final de cuentas ellos dependen de nosotros, ellos son los consumidores. Sin la droga se hubieran suicidado hace rato pues en sus países llevan una vida de 💩 sus trabajos son agobiantes y necesitan estar activos. Por eso tanto interés en el tema. Lo triste es que no ven que la droga que consumen está llena de violencia y sangre, ignoran esa parte de la realidad y por la que estamos tan jodidos en Colombia.

[@elrusolokooooo]

El mismo prejuicio tienen de los españoles en europa yo me fui a vivir a noruega hize un año en una especie de escuela internado y yo y otros de clase ibamos a veces por ay a echar un porro, casi al final del curso me entere de que la gente iba diciendo que yo traficaba por ningun motivo, luego yo como un tonto le decia a la gente que eso era mentira pero bueno un saludo a colombia 🤣🤣

[@njanc5473]

Let's be honest, if Europe didn't consume so many drugs as hell, this business wouldn't be so successful. For a high demand there is an offer. What about talking about the parties that BBC staff and celebrities hold in London consuming all kind of drugs? Don't act as an innocents when we all know that at every trip abroad you powder your noses in those countries. By the way, Stacey's nose looks too red to be in a warm weather place, don't you think?

[@zmatin8792]

Cori S I think you are jumping to conclusions about Stacey however I agree with your point on the amount of drugs consumed in Europe by the bbc and such being a financial motivation for these people

[@kennycollins9441]

She seems like the kind of gal that's had many a session in the past. I've thought that ever since she spoke about ecstasy. She knew way too much to have never done it

[@tj3988]

Ok. Let's be honest. If countries didn't produce drugs for cash, then no one would buy it would they? Ah yes. There in lies the problem of the drug trade. It will NEVER happen, but let's be real and get to the root of the problem. I can assure you it's not the users but more to do with producers looking to make a living out of an economic depression.

[@Ryan88881]

​@@tj3988 People don't want drugs because they're produced, the drugs are produced because people want them.

[@Mynameismurph]

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why a drug smuggler does this interview and tells secrets??? Like what sense does that make to tell the authorities in Algerias how they import cocaine??

[@Ryan88881]

I don't understand why you people always ask these naive questions instead of just doing basic research lol. For one, these aren't secrets. Second, the authorities in the regions they're being shipped to obviously already know all this and a number of them are literally involved themselves. Third, these criminals don't lose anything by doing these interviews and are often compensated financially or through other means but either way it often takes months and months of convincing and persuasion on behalf of the journalists' contact fixer or foreign correspondent. Fixers who get journalists access to criminals are a real profession, it's not some grand conspiracy theory.

[@Mynameismurph]

@@Ryan88881 the logic is not making sense though. For example a cocaine dealer in Colombia worth millions who is on the run does an interview with VICE. why?

[@Mynameismurph]

How much do you think they are getting compensated? What do you think Vice budget is for interviews that get posted on KZbin?

[@Ryan88881]

​@@Mynameismurph This isn't VICE this is BBC (unless you're just giving an example) but I don't see what part of "fixer" and "months and months of convincing and persuasion" you don't understand lol. Journalism has worked this way for years and from what I remember, even Escobar did an on-camera interview or two in the early 80s. Also people need to keep in mind that we only see interviews with the ones who said yes. I'm sure plenty turn it down. And I can't give you exact dollar amounts but these brands like VICE and BBC are worth millions. They have plenty of money and less money is worth more in certain regions of the world. They probably gave him a couple grand, no more no less. And that's obviously a lot over there. I saw no indication that this guy is a millionaire in USD, probably just pesos. I also didn't hear anything about him "being on the run". At the end of the day the journalist has potential access to anyone the fixer has access to. These smugglers are just people. Plenty of them are willing to talk about the basics or even be amicable so long as their identity is concealed. It's really that simple. This journalist (Stacey Dooley) is also known internationally and is a reputable journalist that virtually any criminal can do research on or Google and see quite clearly that she's not a cop or legal threat to their operation. Considering monetized content by VICE and BBC make the companies a ton of money, a few hundred or a few grand here and there is a small price to pay for a documentary piece that will make exponentially more money than that. Lots of the time these programs aren't just on KZbin either.

[@Mynameismurph]

@@Ryan88881 yeah. I know. But drug dealers do interviews for more than BBC LOL

[@jzilla1234]

The ever Gormless stacey dooley.

[@douglaslawson1931]

Couldn't agree more. The condescension is dripping.

[@2richants]

Earns 175k but can't afford a concrete or wooden floor.. Mmmm really

[@YTube900]

Obviously he CAN afford it. You do realize that that’s a remote location very farrrrrrr from his actual home right? Lol you can’t be that gullible

[@pakfurious8212]

Are these people stupid for telling them everything or what, id say hes a paid actor

[@davechristian7543]

5there not that silly mate, he's throwing off trust me.. diverting mate haha

[@dannycardenas3203]

Did she get her FREAK ON After a FEW LINES

[@user-bg8mn5gy9p]

Its not that easy as in these videos don’t get exited kids it has hes cons like everything

[@biscaynebool6807]

Yey!

[@keithdouglas9848]

Her nose is so red?? Hmmmm...

[@pltopper771]

stop saying that they are responsible, it's laws that does al the killing

[@emmaflavell3341]

She should investigate an orthodontist

[@emmaflavell3341]

Bet she shops in Primark

[@futuregirl8803]

@@emmaflavell3341 🤣🤣🤣🤣nothing wrong with primark 😁😁😁😁

[@naughtynanuk]

Gasp! Nooooo. Lol I actually commented her enunciation was a bit harsh on certain letters. This might actually be why. 👍😁

[@njanc5473]

Yeah immediately! Hahaha

[@loveielts8523]

How do you turn cocaine paste back to cocaine? (Asking for a friend)

[@allanjoseph9251]

Ratt

[@pmjbacon]

I love this girl... now here is a roll model for young ladies to aspire too and guys to listen.

[@jamescullen2448]

Stacey, any chance of going back to Luton, and see how your own town is getting on , 🤔🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🕋🕋🐀🐀🐀🐀

[@hmalik5232]

I don’t like the attitude of the journalist. She acts as if he’s a bad person for exporting cocaine and she also says that authorities should be looking in the packaging of the bananas as if she wants cocaine to be seized by law enforcement. It’s not his fault that drugs are illegal and the war on drugs is happening. It’s politicians fault for starting it, continuing it, and not stopping it. It’s also the fault of the law enforcement and the militaries involved in enforcing drug laws and it is also the fault of people who accepted it, agreed with it and supported it, even though there has been a lot of drug propaganda unfortunately. The violence associated with drugs, a lot of which is done by gangs and cartels, would be stopped or reduced if all drugs were legalised properly. I’ve also seen other videos of hers which show her ignorant and Karen-like personality. She contacted social media companies and shouted outside their offices and/or headquarters on the BBC documentary ‘Stacey Dooley Investigates: Kids Selling Drugs Online’. All drugs should be legalised. All drugs should be legal.

[@golubdraskovic724]

"we make boxes out pasta" than we impregnate containers!what a joke of trafficker and "journalist"😂they pay 100 $-max for bag (30kg)to officer and he stuff bag into containers,not this joker

[@Scotland420life]

Show fake as anything drugs runers don't tell u they about the drug business lol

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