Manta, Ecuador
CNN
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“One more trip,” he says. “And then I’ll stop.”
He’s a fisherman by trade, born and raised in the coastal city of Manta — a place once known for tuna and tranquility. But these days, the fish are harder to find. The trips are longer. And the money, he says, just isn’t there anymore.
“As a fisherman, in a month you can make $300,” he says. “But with the drug, the white one… that’s the money, brother!”
One trip, running cocaine by sea to Mexico, pays $60,000, he says. Half up front. Half when you make it back alive. “I think that if I get one more trip, I would go, to try my luck,” he says,…
