Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest.

His name is Toby Mewse, and he wrote a book in 2020, published in 2020.

The title of the book is Keelow. Inside the Deadliest Cote Cane cartels from the jungles to the streets.

Really excellently written book. I like his style and his approach.

And he can talk more about that.

His website is his full name,

www.com.

And he traces the kind of growing cocaine

following a kilo, does the title of the book

from the inside and really very well written,

so highly recommend it. So Toby Muse, are you are you there absolutely and thank you for the invite I'm looking

forward to a discussion me too so thanks a lot for agreeing to the interview for people who may not

have heard your background can you talk about your kind of journalistic background you spend a lot

of time in south america and what led you to write this book, Kilo?

So, yes, I left university. I moved to Argentina, setting out on a kind of career of trying to be a foreign correspondent. And, you know, in my mind, being a foreign correspondent really

meant, you know, you're setting out, you're a young man, you want adventure, right?

And part of being a foreign correspondent in my mind always did mean covering wars.

I never wanted to be the war reporter who goes from war to war to war, and I still don't

really like that. But being a foreign correspondent was you were out in these exotic locations and at times you were covering wars.

So I was in Argentina and at the top of that continent was Colombia.

Colombia was in this brutal civil war that was pitting this Marxist rebellion against a far right death squads and this government.

And it was this three-way and it was the center of the cocaine trade.

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