Cocaine, Crime, Cartels: Can Europe Fight Back?

Europe is in the crosshairs of powerful drug cartels. With high-speed boats, cutting-edge technology, and ruthless tactics, they’re flooding the market and pushing investigators to their limits. Are authorities still in control, or have they already lost the fight?

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Our guests: Anabel Hernández (investigative reporter from Mexico); Jörg Schmitt (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Olaf Sundermeyer (investigative reporter, RBB).

 

DW 2026 | To the Point | Sendung vom 23.07.2026 | Anabel Hernández
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Anabel Hernández

is an award‑winning Mexican investigative journalist who has spent decades exposing the power structures behind Mexico’s drug cartels. That work has forced her into exile under strict security protection.

 

 

DW 2026 | Auf den Punkt & To the Point | Sendung vom 23.07.2026 | Olaf Sundermeyer
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Olaf Sundermeyer

is a reporter with the investigative team at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), part of Germany’s public broadcaster ARD. He specializes in internal security issues.

 

 

DW 2026 | Auf den Punkt & To the Point | Sendung vom 23.07.2026 | Jörg Schmitt
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Jörg Schmitt

is a veteran investigative journalist and Deputy Head of Investigative Reporting at Süddeutsche Zeitung. He co‑led the recent investigation “On the Cocaine Highway Across the Atlantic.”
 

 

 

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