On tonight’s episode of Foreign Correspondent, the investigation deepens across the Pacific, where a growing drug crisis continues to unfold beyond Fiji and into neighbouring island nations.
ABC reporter Stephanie March joins local journalists across the region to track evolving cartel tactics, from narco subs to deportation fallout, revealing how the Pacific is becoming an expanding corridor for drug trafficking.
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From South America to the Solomon Islands, Foreign Correspondent reveals the new smuggling tactics being used by cartels to send eye-watering quantities of drugs across the Pacific.
Senior reporter Stephanie March and Solomon Islands reporter Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong go hunting for “narco subs” and the men who cross the ocean in them.
In Tonga, we reveal how the hard-line deportation policies of countries like Australia are exporting criminal gang know-how to this island nation.
In an exclusive jail-house interview, Stephanie March and ABC Tonga reporter Marian Kupumeet the man who has become synonymous with the country’s drug gang and deportee problem.
This is part two of a major investigation looking at the drug crisis in the islands of the Pacific – a crisis which is turning paradise into a pit stop on a drug smuggling superhighway and ensnaring our neighbours in a sinister web of transnational crime.
