The four men park their sport-utility vehicle in the back lot of a five-star hotel, size me up carefully and make their offer: I can sample some high-grade cocaine, and then buy 7 kg for about $78,000 roughly one-quarter of what I can sell it for on the streets of London, Amsterdam or elsewhere in Europe. It has taken me a stranger in town just one afternoon to locate a sizable drug deal.
If Guinea-Bissau had the money to paint a sign for arriving visitors, it might read: welcome to the world's newest narco state....
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