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Bust in Budi Budi: the day a fisherman hauled in $50m worth of cocaine

How a remote atoll on Papua New Guinea’s eastern fringe was menaced by drug traffickers as illicit trade across the Pacific surges

• The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

Last May a fisherman in Papua New Guinea went out hunting for shark. But instead of coming home with fish to feed his family he returned with an unexpected catch: A$50m worth of cocaine.

Related: The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WW68ec

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