Santo Domingo.- Renowned Dominican journalist Alicia Ortega makes her return to Netflix in Cocaine Air, a French documentary series that premiered on Tuesday, June 11. Ortega, vice president of the SIN Group and host of El Informe, contributes her investigative expertise to the series, which revisits one of the Caribbean’s most notorious drug trafficking cases.
Cocaine Air explores the 2013 “Air Cocaine” case, when authorities intercepted a private jet in Punta Cana carrying over 700 kilos of cocaine. French pilots Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were arrested but later escaped to France, where they were eventually acquitted in 2021. The series includes exclusive interviews, unseen footage, and testimonies that challenge the official version of events.
This marks Ortega’s second appearance on a Netflix production. She previously featured in Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, where she reported on major drug traffickers while working as a news anchor for NBC6 in Florida.