Narcos: the hidden drug highways linking Asia and Latin America

NOVEMBER 24, 2018 SCMP

 
RAQUEL CARVALHO

 
MARCELO DUHALDE

As Chinese gangs, Latin American cartels and Nigerian brokers widen their international networks, a rising number of vulnerable women and children are being tangled in their web.

It was one of those hot summer days in early August when the skin has no rest from the burning sun, drier than usual. Daniela, from Venezuela, was landing for the first time in Hong Kong, wearing a black jacket, white shirt, bell-bottomed jeans, and high heels.

She was pregnant, but that wasn’t all she was carrying. Strapped to each of her legs were four packs of cocaine.

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