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More or Less: Behind the Stats

WS More or Less: Escobar?s Cocaine Deaths

More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

How many people die for every kilo of cocaine? More Or Less investigates.

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0:00.0

Welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.

0:08.2

One night, a bomb went off at a pizzeria right down from my high rise

0:13.5

and practically booing out of bed.

0:16.2

This week, how deadly was the Colombian drug trade in the 1990s?

0:28.6

My name is Elizabeth Silly, and I was the head of intelligence in Bogota during the hunt for Pablo Escobar.

0:35.6

Pablo Escobar was one of the world's most infamous drug traffickers. From his stronghold of Medellin,

0:37.7

Colombia, Escobar rose from the slums to feature on the Forbes magazine's Billionaires

0:42.7

List in 1987. He was a folk hero in his hometown of Medellin and one of America's most

0:48.7

wanted men in the early 1990s. It is this world that has been brought to life in the Netflix drama series Narcos.

0:58.0

Narcos is based on the real-life story of agent Steve Murphy who worked for the US Drug

1:02.5

Enforcement Agency, known as the DEA.

1:06.4

Steve was sent to track down and arrest Pablo Escobar in Colombia.

1:10.8

Loyal listener Graham emailed to ask about a quote he'd heard from the show.

1:14.1

Oh, fuck, thank, Graham.

1:16.1

Shoo, you wouldn't imagine what a key will that stuff cost.

1:22.1

DEA agent Steve Murphy is in an airport bathroom when he sees two Americans snorting cocaine.

1:30.3

He asked them if they know the true price of the drugs they're taking, more specifically

1:34.3

how many people die for every kilo of cocaine.

1:39.3

Six. Live.

1:47.2

That's how much the cost?

1:48.6

What do you think about that?

1:50.4

I was six people.

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