Finding Mr Fox: 3. Highway 10
The sailors are imprisoned in a country known as a βmotorway service stationβ for cocaine cartels.
The sailors are imprisoned in a country known as a βmotorway service stationβ for cocaine cartels. Among certain police forces and crime agencies, the shortest sailing route from Latin America to Africa is known as drug traffickersβ Highway 10. Cape Verde lies at one end of it.
The West African nation is used as a handy stop off point for smugglers to refuel or swap boats ahead of their journey on to Europe. For Daniel and Rodrigo though, it was somewhere to enjoy the beaches and the surf. But they canβt do that now theyβre locked up in jail.
Colin and Yemesi learn more about the wider destructive impact of drug dealing and the international narcotics market, boarding a police boat as local cops patrol the ocean.
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