all of whom had swallowed several bags of cocaine. Two more passengers were carrying more of the drug in their luggage.
Perhaps the biggest hindrance to Joao’s work was that as a state employee, ultimately he worked for Guinea-Bissau’s biggest cocaine smuggler, General Indjai. It was an isolating existence. Joao had had death threats and rarely slept in the same place twice. When I met him, he looked exhausted and told me he was on the point of quitting not just his job but his country too. “Look, I don’t know about the future of the country,” he said, “but I can tell you what I plan for my future. No country that has been through this has been able to fix it and if I cannot achieve what I want, there’s no need for me to stay.” A few months later I heard he had quit and moved to Italy.
1 For more evidence of this drug use and trans-Atlantic trade see American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies
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