What Really Happens Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cartels (Mariana van Zeller) from Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

What Really Happens Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cartels (Mariana van Zeller)

1 hour 17 minutes Posted Oct 14, 2026 at 9:00 pm.

) Cold Open

) Reporting Live on 9/11 at 24

) Inside Muck Media: Trophies From the Underworld

) Embedded With Syrian Jihadis

) Trapped in the Niger Coup

) The Stories Too Dangerous to Tell

) Super Scam Me: Going Undercover

) Deepfakes & the Fake Four-Star General

) Why Black Markets Never Die

) Blindfolded by the Cartel

) Why CEOs Scare Her More Than Cartels

) Closing Thoughts

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Mariana van Zeller is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker renowned for her investigative reporting on global crime and black-market networks. She was the host and executive producer of National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, which explores illicit trafficking networks worldwide. She hosted the podcast “The Hidden Third”, which looks at grey markets and stories from “the hidden third of the world.”

Her latest documentary “Super Scam Me” does a deep dive into the world of romance scams.

The Hidden Third: https://www.youtube.com/@MarianaVanZeller

Watch the Super Scam Me trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWSVmS1TTb0

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