Series
The Cartel That Killed Three Continents
In 1876, a British adventurer smuggled 70,000 rubber seeds out of the Amazon. That act of biopiracy would give Britain control of 75% of the world's rubber supply—and set in motion a chain of atrocities spanning Africa, Asia, and South America. Ten million dead in King Leopold's Congo. 750,000 Tamil workers killed in British Malaya. A $20 million ghost town rotting in the Brazilian jungle. Three continents. One commodity. The same silence about the human cost.
