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The Underworld Podcast

The Meth SuperCartels Destroying Tropical Paradise

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For years the Pacific region, and its tiny, tropical nations, steered clear of the global meth and cocaine trade. But politics, war and wild profit margins have pushed ships and planes out from Latin America to Australia across a new ‘drug highway.’ The phenomenon is prompting mass murder, crippling governments, and creating a wave of addiction where none existed. Locals are getting corrupted into becoming cartel ‘doors.’ And local gang underworlds have been upended, uprooted and hunted down like never before. Unless something changes, it'll be Paradise Lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, so I've changed your brake pads, I've replaced a wiper blade and topped up your screen wash.

0:04.7

Anything else you wanted me to look at?

0:06.1

Yeah, my washer dryer only works on a short cycle. I've got it in the boot.

0:10.4

Like getting your money's worth. Grab a McDonald's over meal deal.

0:13.0

That's a cheeseburger or a mayo chicken, medium fries and drink for just 399.

0:17.0

From 11 a.m. not available on delivery.

0:20.0

A. Ah!

0:21.0

This hate-don't talk show. You're at the snack wormhole. All I'm talking about is what you fancy putting in your face hole.

0:28.0

Satisfy your animal with pepperami pizza buns.

0:30.0

Yulanda too Haver knows something ain't right.

0:33.0

It's April 2018 and Yolanda's husband, a stocky 28 year old Aucklander named Epelehame

0:40.0

or Hame for short has been going on strange trips to far-flung corners of New Zealand.

0:45.2

He says, on holiday, but she knows better.

0:49.2

See the couple of move with their young son to Australia in 2014 to seek a fortune in Sydney its biggest city.

0:57.2

But Hame, no stranger to the rough and tumble street crime of Auckland, and got deep into

1:02.4

the nomads, an outlaw motorcycle club

1:05.2

with connections to cartels fueling Australia's colossal appetite for drugs.

1:09.8

He become a patch member and he was even cozy with the group's

1:14.0

halting bearded leader Michael Clark.

1:17.0

But the two Havers returned to New Zealand in 2017

1:20.0

and Hamay got his head turned by another more fearsome gang.

1:24.0

The Comoncheros have been christened in 1960s Sydney

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