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Podcast: Change Agents with Andy Stumpf
Episode: The Darkest Cartel Operations Happening in Small American Towns (with Trafficked’s Mariana van Zeller)
Description: On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy sits down with award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller, host of National Geographic’s Trafficked, to explore cartels, black markets, and human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. Mariana discusses how cartels operate in small American towns, use domestic flights for smuggling, and recruit American citizens as distributors. She also examines the trade of Vietnamese brides into China and the broader social and economic factors that enable these crimes.
The conversation highlights the scale of drug trafficking and human exploitation and emphasizes the need for awareness an...