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Mexican drug cartels created their own fentanyl crisis
Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year.
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US authorities say the synthetic opioid is mostly produced in Mexico and trafficked across the border. But addiction and deaths are also on the rise in Mexican towns and cities.
When smuggling into the US all but stopped during the pandemic, the cartels unleashed fentanyl on their own population. Now they're trying to clean up the mess.
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos travelled to Tijuana, to see how it's going.
His report shows images of drug use.
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Who are the Mexican drug cartels?
They make billions of dollars smuggling drugs and illicit goods across the border into the United States. But who are the powerful Mexican drug cartels?
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Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
We gain rare access inside the world’s most dangerous crime cartels, making one of the world’s most deadly opioid drugs.
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Fentanyl drug use was the biggest cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45 - more than gun crime, more than road accidents.
The synthetic opiate killed at least seventy thousand Americans in just one year.
Fentanyl is smuggled across the Mexican border by the Sinaloa drug cartel, and US authorities have charged dozens of its members with trafficking - including the three sons of its leader, El Chapo Guzman, who's now in a maximum security prison.
To grasp the dimensions of this deadly trade you need to confront the people behind it.
We did just that.
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published: 02 May 2023
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The Sinaloa Cartel has a army of 100,000 soliders
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Cartel TikTok: Economics and Geometry
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How Mexican Drug Cartels Smuggle Thousands of Guns From The US | Arming the Americas
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How a Balkan Drug Cartel Infiltrated Global Shipping
When officials found $1 billion worth of cocaine onboard the container ship Gayane in 2019, it kicked off a fight between the US and the world's largest shipping carrier over drug trafficking.
Learn more 👉 How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-16/how-world-s-top-shipping-company-became-hub-for-drug-trafficking
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published: 22 Dec 2022
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Arming and Funding Cartels | CBS Reports
CBS Reports journeys into a cartel stronghold in Mexico to expose how the U.S. is helping fuel its own war on drugs. With special access to secret intelligence documents and government insiders, this investigation uncovers how American citizens have been aiding Mexican drug cartels by smuggling military-grade weapons across the U.S. border, providing the money and firepower for cartels to operate with impunity. Watch more CBS Reports documentaries that dive into the key issues driving the national and global conversation at cbsnews.com/cbs-reports.
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published: 01 Dec 2023
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Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent
Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top. Produced in collaboration with Ben Zand and Vice TV.
In Mexico’s Sinaloa state, violence has become a way of life.
Home to the country’s most powerful drug syndicate, the Sinaloa cartel, murders and disappearances are rife.
The police, meant to protect the population, are often the targets of violence. Over 500 officers were killed in Mexico last year.
They’re also often complicit, with corruption in the police force and government a major problem.In this shocking portrait of a country caught in the grip of organised crime, reporter Ben Zand takes us where few have...
published: 22 Jul 2021
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Mexican drug cartel issues apology #shorts
A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.
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published: 10 Mar 2023
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Mexican drug cartels created their own fentanyl crisis
Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year.
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Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year.
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US authorities say the synthetic opioid is mostly produced in Mexico and trafficked across the border. But addiction and deaths are also on the rise in Mexican towns and cities.
When smuggling into the US all but stopped during the pandemic, the cartels unleashed fentanyl on their own population. Now they're trying to clean up the mess.
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos travelled to Tijuana, to see how it's going.
His report shows images of drug use.
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Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year.
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US authorities say the synthetic opioid is mostly produced in Mexico and trafficked across the border. But addiction and deaths are also on the rise in Mexican towns and cities.
When smuggling into the US all but stopped during the pandemic, the cartels unleashed fentanyl on their own population. Now they're trying to clean up the mess.
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos travelled to Tijuana, to see how it's going.
His report shows images of drug use.
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- published: 03 Apr 2024
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Who are the Mexican drug cartels?
They make billions of dollars smuggling drugs and illicit goods across the border into the United States. But who are the powerful Mexican drug cartels?
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- published: 02 May 2023
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Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
We gain rare access inside the world’s most dangerous crime cartels, making one of the world’s most deadly opioid drugs.
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We gain rare access inside the world’s most dangerous crime cartels, making one of the world’s most deadly opioid drugs.
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Fentanyl drug use was the biggest cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45 - more than gun crime, more than road accidents.
The synthetic opiate killed at least seventy thousand Americans in just one year.
Fentanyl is smuggled across the Mexican border by the Sinaloa drug cartel, and US authorities have charged dozens of its members with trafficking - including the three sons of its leader, El Chapo Guzman, who's now in a maximum security prison.
To grasp the dimensions of this deadly trade you need to confront the people behind it.
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We gain rare access inside the world’s most dangerous crime cartels, making one of the world’s most deadly opioid drugs.
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Fentanyl drug use was the biggest cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45 - more than gun crime, more than road accidents.
The synthetic opiate killed at least seventy thousand Americans in just one year.
Fentanyl is smuggled across the Mexican border by the Sinaloa drug cartel, and US authorities have charged dozens of its members with trafficking - including the three sons of its leader, El Chapo Guzman, who's now in a maximum security prison.
To grasp the dimensions of this deadly trade you need to confront the people behind it.
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How Mexican Drug Cartels Smuggle Thousands of Guns From The US | Arming the Americas
VICE News traveled to Mexico to meet cartel members armed with American weapons, along with government officials from both the U.S. and Mexico trying to staunch...
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- published: 14 Feb 2023
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How a Balkan Drug Cartel Infiltrated Global Shipping
When officials found $1 billion worth of cocaine onboard the container ship Gayane in 2019, it kicked off a fight between the US and the world's largest shippin...
When officials found $1 billion worth of cocaine onboard the container ship Gayane in 2019, it kicked off a fight between the US and the world's largest shipping carrier over drug trafficking.
Learn more 👉 How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-16/how-world-s-top-shipping-company-became-hub-for-drug-trafficking
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- published: 22 Dec 2022
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Arming and Funding Cartels | CBS Reports
CBS Reports journeys into a cartel stronghold in Mexico to expose how the U.S. is helping fuel its own war on drugs. With special access to secret intelligence ...
CBS Reports journeys into a cartel stronghold in Mexico to expose how the U.S. is helping fuel its own war on drugs. With special access to secret intelligence documents and government insiders, this investigation uncovers how American citizens have been aiding Mexican drug cartels by smuggling military-grade weapons across the U.S. border, providing the money and firepower for cartels to operate with impunity. Watch more CBS Reports documentaries that dive into the key issues driving the national and global conversation at cbsnews.com/cbs-reports.
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CBS Reports journeys into a cartel stronghold in Mexico to expose how the U.S. is helping fuel its own war on drugs. With special access to secret intelligence documents and government insiders, this investigation uncovers how American citizens have been aiding Mexican drug cartels by smuggling military-grade weapons across the U.S. border, providing the money and firepower for cartels to operate with impunity. Watch more CBS Reports documentaries that dive into the key issues driving the national and global conversation at cbsnews.com/cbs-reports.
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- published: 01 Dec 2023
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Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent
Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to me...
Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top. Produced in collaboration with Ben Zand and Vice TV.
In Mexico’s Sinaloa state, violence has become a way of life.
Home to the country’s most powerful drug syndicate, the Sinaloa cartel, murders and disappearances are rife.
The police, meant to protect the population, are often the targets of violence. Over 500 officers were killed in Mexico last year.
They’re also often complicit, with corruption in the police force and government a major problem.In this shocking portrait of a country caught in the grip of organised crime, reporter Ben Zand takes us where few have gone – inside the Sinaloa cartel in the Sierra Madre mountains where he witnesses the group’s operations up close.
At their hidden base, the group grows poppies and marijuana for export, fends off outsiders with guns and bribes visiting police and security officers with money and women.
“The government is the one in charge” say the local leader. “The cartel is only as big as the government wants us to be.”
Commentator and writer Ioan Grillo believes that the police and military used to have the upper hand with the cartels but says that’s now changed.
“Some of the cartels have become much more powerful,” says Grillo. “[now] the cartel is actually bullying and controlling elements of the security forces.”
It’s the community who’s paying the price for corruption and impunity.
Mirna Quiñones’ son disappeared suddenly 7 years ago. When police refused to help her, she set out to find him herself.
She went on to set up the Trackers of El Fuerte group which helps parents looking for their children. In the last seven years of searching, they’ve uncovered over two hundred bodies.
“There is no justice. We all know that. I have been threatened by the municipal police here. The government and crime are united.”
Interior Minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, concedes there is corruption. “The trials, and the investigations, are deficient”, she says. “Lawyers are threatened. Judges are threatened. That is just the reality.”
But she maintains the government is doing its best to investigate the cartels and to undermine their support base.
Investigative journalist Anabel Hernández disagrees, saying she has little faith the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected two and half years ago, will tackle the problem.
“He promised to do something different but….it’s just the same. Nothing changed. In some parts it's worse."
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Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top. Produced in collaboration with Ben Zand and Vice TV.
In Mexico’s Sinaloa state, violence has become a way of life.
Home to the country’s most powerful drug syndicate, the Sinaloa cartel, murders and disappearances are rife.
The police, meant to protect the population, are often the targets of violence. Over 500 officers were killed in Mexico last year.
They’re also often complicit, with corruption in the police force and government a major problem.In this shocking portrait of a country caught in the grip of organised crime, reporter Ben Zand takes us where few have gone – inside the Sinaloa cartel in the Sierra Madre mountains where he witnesses the group’s operations up close.
At their hidden base, the group grows poppies and marijuana for export, fends off outsiders with guns and bribes visiting police and security officers with money and women.
“The government is the one in charge” say the local leader. “The cartel is only as big as the government wants us to be.”
Commentator and writer Ioan Grillo believes that the police and military used to have the upper hand with the cartels but says that’s now changed.
“Some of the cartels have become much more powerful,” says Grillo. “[now] the cartel is actually bullying and controlling elements of the security forces.”
It’s the community who’s paying the price for corruption and impunity.
Mirna Quiñones’ son disappeared suddenly 7 years ago. When police refused to help her, she set out to find him herself.
She went on to set up the Trackers of El Fuerte group which helps parents looking for their children. In the last seven years of searching, they’ve uncovered over two hundred bodies.
“There is no justice. We all know that. I have been threatened by the municipal police here. The government and crime are united.”
Interior Minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, concedes there is corruption. “The trials, and the investigations, are deficient”, she says. “Lawyers are threatened. Judges are threatened. That is just the reality.”
But she maintains the government is doing its best to investigate the cartels and to undermine their support base.
Investigative journalist Anabel Hernández disagrees, saying she has little faith the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected two and half years ago, will tackle the problem.
“He promised to do something different but….it’s just the same. Nothing changed. In some parts it's worse."
About Foreign Correspondent:
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- published: 22 Jul 2021
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Mexican drug cartel issues apology #shorts
A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned...
A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.
READ MORE:https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/mexican-gang-reportedly-apologizes-over-american-deaths-turns-over-members/507-cd3daa61-9f78-42a6-8088-5656dbb254d0
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A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.
READ MORE:https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/mexican-gang-reportedly-apologizes-over-american-deaths-turns-over-members/507-cd3daa61-9f78-42a6-8088-5656dbb254d0
- published: 10 Mar 2023
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