Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In 1990, the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago saw the only attempted Islamic militant overthrow of a government in the Western Hemisphere. The coup led by Abu Bakr and his Jamaat Al Muslimeem followers failed, but many on the island see it as a turning point that has led the murder rate to increase by 400% over the last few decades. Now, a raging war between the Rasta City gang and the Muslims gang doesn't show sings of stopping as they battle over lucrative government contracts and the street drug trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	The sun is shining, the Trinidadian music known as so- million people are in the Caribbean. The
1:03.0	the Trinidadian music known as
1:04.8	Soka is blasting. People are eating doubles on the streets
1:08.0	their little fried beans and bread. They're really good
1:10.0	get them if you haven't had them. Maybe you're one of the many trade
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1:19.2	region with the GDP of like $18,000 per person.
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