Cocaine Capital of the World: Stacey Dooley Investigates

BBC Three HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday 7 May

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The presenter heads to remote and hostile regions to meet people involved in the global drugs trade - including producers and traffickers who are on the run from the authorities. In the first edition, Stacey discovers why Peru is known as the world's cocaine capital. Beginning her journey in Lima, she visits a British man who was jailed for smuggling the substance into Europe, before linking up with government forces as they launch a major crackdown on the farmers that earn their living through its production. She then treks through the rainforest to find out how a new strain of coca plant is being grown