What if you found humanity in the depths of the criminal underworld?
5/19/20261 hr 13 min
After leaving Portugal to become a journalist, a woman is drawn into the world’s black markets, where dangerous encounters with criminals, extremists, and a military coup reveal the systems that shape people and the humanity that still connects them.
Today’s episode featured Mariana van Zeller. Mariana is an award-winning correspondent and investigative journalist. She is the host and executive producer of National Geographic's original documentary series ""Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller,"" which explores the complex and often dangerous inner-workings of the global underworld, smuggling networks, black and informal markets. For her reporting, Mariana has e...
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Mariana van Zeller· Guest0:19
The biggest threat isn't the monster, it's the systems that manufacture them. And I stopped chasing the villains, and I started being more interested in understanding the broken systems that create these bad actors.
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