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World Service,25 Oct 2016,5 mins

More or Less - Escobar's Cocaine Deaths

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Pablo Escobar was one of the world’s most infamous drug traffickers and one of America’s most wanted men. It is this world in the early 1990s that has been brought to life in the Netflix TV series Narcos. So what is the truth behind the numbers of cocaine deaths in the Netflix series - is it really six deaths per kilo?

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