This Journalist Spent a Month in Cuba: What He Saw Was Shocking
Borderland: Narcosis with Vincent 'Rocco' VargasShow Notes
Today's guest is Sean Williams. Sean is an investigative report whose work has apeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Wired, The Economist, The Guardian, Sports Illustrated and many more.
He host The Underworld Podcast, a weekly show investigating global organized crime with journalist Danny Gold.
He recently spent 4 weeks in Havana investigating the situation there.
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