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Guinea-Bissau - Cocaine Country
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Guinea-Bissau - Cocaine Country

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Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest nations, has become a key transit point for cocaine moving from Colombia to Europe, and this Unreported World report goes in to see what that trade has done to the country. Reporters talk to smugglers, security officers, and local residents about how traffickers bribe officials and politicians, intimidate journalists, and use violence to keep the route open. The film traces how weak state institutions and high unemployment leave the drug networks largely unchallenged, with young men recruited into the trade despite the risks of arrest or worse. Interviews with activists and officials who have pushed back against the traffickers show the personal cost of that resistance, set against a state too fragile to fully police its own coastline. The report treats Guinea-Bissau as a case study in how a small, cash-poor country can be reshaped by a trade it neither profits from nor controls, with cocaine passing through on its way to buyers thousands of miles away.