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A Syrian bulldozer driver reveals the horrifying details of burying thousands of regime victims in secret mass graves.

The Sinaloa Cartel is perhaps the most powerful criminal group on Earth. We reveal the mix of adaptability and violence that maintains their grip on the drugs trade.

Host, Jamie Clifton, looks at some of the chaos caused by recreational drug prohibition.

A former drug mule reveals how he made €20,000 per trip smuggling cocaine across Europe.

VICE World News investigates how Kremlin-linked mercenaries and disinformation fuel instability in Africa.

Basuco is the world’s cheapest drug, made from the residue of cocaine production mixed with sulphuric acid, ash and sometimes human bones - and it’s ravaging poor communities.

The global cocaine trade has been revolutionised by Albanian mafia groups. We show how these groups really operate, using business innovation and brutal violence to maintain their power.

Voluntourism, where primarily privileged white do-gooders pay for the experience of “building an orphanage” or other charity work abroad, is rife with manipulation, abuse and corruption.

How did the street gang MS-13 become the deadliest gang in Central America, virtually taking over entire cities? How do they actually fit into the global narco-trade?

There’s a new cocaine and meth superhighway stretching from Latin America to Australia via the Pacific Islands, with unforeseen and devastating consequences.

Getting screamed at, sexual harassment and finding porn on the bosses’ school laptop. An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at South Korea’s notorious private “Hagwon” Schools.

An Ex-Correction Officer lifts the lid on an incredibly dysfunctional jail where some officers are assaulted daily whilst others turn to corruption.