Name: Caught in an African Coup
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Caught in an African Coup

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Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller investigates new emerging underworlds, including the trade in body parts, hired assassins, sextortion and the smuggling of people across the U.S.-Mexico border, to meet the players and learn the business.

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