A Cocaine War and the World’s Dumbest Bust

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When the son of Suriname’s president offered to ship drugs and guns for a major terror group in 2013, it was the dimwitted denouement to decades of narco-fueled madness in the small, South American nation — which began when the two belligerents in its bitter civil war made so much cash ferrying product for Colombian cartels, that they buried their differences and worked together instead. The war ended. But the drugs never stopped flowing — particularly between Suriname and a new clique of criminals in its former colonial ruler, the Netherlands. A crazy episode, and one to add to the pantheon of the world’s true, out-and-out narco states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.3	An old English and Dutch colonial slave port situated at the point where the winding Surinam River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
1:13.6	Since the country's independence from the Netherlands in 1975 and a bitter civil war that followed,
1:20.6	nothing much has happened here, at least little to make international headlines,
1:24.6	safe perhaps for it being the birthplace of some of the world's
1:27.7	greatest footballers. Seriously, Edgar Davids, Clarence Sadoff, Aaron Vinter, Jimmy Floyd
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1:52.5	population a quarter million.
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