Illustration by Michelle Urra for VICE World News. Three women worked together to run cocaine from Colombia to the United States. ZACAPA, Guatemala - Sebastiana Cottón Vásquez had walked into the house of her own accord, accompanied by some of her closest allies. But now she found herself outnumbered and outgunned by her drug trafficking associates.

In the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles from the Caribbean coast, Cerrejón is an empty, forbidding, seemingly endless horizon of dusty outback, stripped of vegetation and crisscrossed with dirt roads that lead to enormous pits 15 miles in circumference. It is one of the world's largest coal operations, covering an area larger than Washington, D.C.

Beijing's monster fishing fleet has long since stripped its own waters bare. Now it is aggressively prowling the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans for a catch. And it is coming to Australia. It grabs as much as it can. As fast as it can. Wherever it can.