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Chiraq & Nigeria's Oil Pirates
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Chiraq & Nigeria's Oil Pirates

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Two VICE reports share this hour, both built around men who consider armed conflict a normal part of daily business. The first follows Chicago's South Side, where the murder rate earned the city the nickname Chiraq, and where reporters spend time in Englewood talking with gang members, mothers of shooting victims, and police trying to explain why 2012 became the deadliest year on record there. Guns, territory, and retaliation cycles drive the interviews, filmed on the blocks where the killings happen. The second half moves to the Niger Delta, where militants tap pipelines and siphon crude into makeshift refineries, feeding a black market that has poisoned rivers and farmland across the region. VICE crews ride along with oil thieves, wade through fuel-slicked creeks, and hear from Nigerian officials and delta residents caught between corporate oil interests, government corruption, and armed gangs. Both segments trade narration for direct access, letting the people running these underground economies explain, on camera, why they keep doing it.