How Fiji Became a Cartel Paradise | The War on Drugs

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When you think of the Pacific Islands, you tend to think of a tropical paradise – not bricks of cocaine and meth being cooked up with rat poison.

But there’s a new Pacific drugs superhighway emerging across the South Pacific islands, with unforeseen and devastating consequences.

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