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Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup

Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup

FromThe Underworld Podcast


Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup

FromThe Underworld Podcast

ratings:
Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1990, the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago saw the only attempted Islamic militant overthrow of a government in the Western Hemisphere. The coup led by Abu Bakr and his Jamaat Al Muslimeem followers failed, but many on the island see it as a turning point that has led the murder rate to increase by 400% over the last few decades. Now, a raging war between the Rasta City gang and the Muslims gang doesn't show sings of stopping as they battle over lucrative government contracts and the street drug trade.
Released:
Mar 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not. Underworld Podcast Store: shop.podcastone.com/underworld