Finding Mr Fox: 3. Highway 10

World Of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The sailors are imprisoned in a country known as a “motorway service station” for cocaine cartels. Among certain police forces and crime agencies, the shortest sailing route from Latin America to Africa is known as drug traffickers’ 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 can’t do that now they’re 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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0:29.9	Before we begin, just to remind you, many of the people we've interviewed for this season of World of Secrets speak Portuguese,
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0:48.3	The islands are absolutely beautiful.
0:51.8	This one is just a series of what I think used to be volcanoes sticking out
0:57.0	of the ocean.
1:00.0	Bumping along on the ocean waves and get to see Cape Verde, just as Brazilian sailors Daniel
1:07.0	and Rodrigo would have done when they first arrived here seven years ago. And of course, more or less year-round sunshine, which is fantastic if you're a holiday maker.
1:18.6	Perfect for sunbathing or messing around on the beach.
1:23.6	But Daniel never got to do that.
1:26.6	Yes, it's a tropical paradise, but its location brings problems as well as blessings.
1:32.3	It's June 2024, and on board a grey military-style boat, police patrol the waters just off the coast of Cape Verde.
1:53.2	As a collection of ten islands, there's a lot of coastline and a lot of water to patrol.
2:00.6	And one of the things the police are looking for is drugs.
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