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Posters of Pablo Escobar on a wall

27/10/2016 GMT

Dying for Cocaine

BBC World Service - The Thought Show, Dying for Cocaine

How many people die in Colombia’s drugs trade for every kilo of cocaine?

How many people die in Colombia’s drugs trade for every kilo of cocaine? And the giving and receiving of donor organs - will we still need to do it in the future?

The world of Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s most infamous drug traffickers, is dramatised in the Netflix TV drama series Narcos. We find out the truth behind the series’ claim about the number of deaths involved in Colombia’s drug trade.

A taxi driver’s political rant has gone viral in Egypt, prompting a debate about the state of the nation. 

And, last year an estimated 119,000 people worldwide received organ transplants but many more are still waiting. Mike Williams talks to a surgeon in the United States, a doctor in Israel whose direct action led to an improvement in donation rates, and a daughter who gave a kidney to her father.

(Image: Posters of Pablo Escobar on a wall saying " Pablo for President". Credit: Getty Images)

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