Black markets, underground economies, trafficking.

Well, everybody involved is making money.

Anyway, there are laws about things bought, sold, or traded.

There are people willing to break those laws for money and power.

Worth more than gold or uranium or anything else.

I'm Mariana Vanzella.

I've spent my career investigating the inner workings of black markets all around the world.

The second season of my documentary series, Trafficked, begins on December 1st, and we go deeper into

the criminal underworld than ever before.

This call is from an inmate at a federal prison.

On the trafficked podcast, you meet black market operators like Lee's Trimple,

a smuggler whose small operation started by carrying marijuana across the border on surf worlds

and built up to military combat vehicles.

We called it amphibious beach assault.

You'll meet the people fueling America's addiction to meth from temporary lives across the country.

All the chemicals that we're using are very, very dangerous. And a woman who goes by Black Madam.

Our underground plastic surgery started small, but eventually became deadly.

I didn't know what these injections were, but she told me that they would make us lovely,

and we should go get them.

They've told me their personal stories of how they made their way to the center of their

own black market operation, found success, and made their fortune until one day, everything

came crashing down.

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