How Sinaloa Became Mexico’s Biggest Cartel | The War on Drugs
The Sinaloa Cartel are probably the richest and most powerful criminal organization on Earth.
From the mountains of North West Mexico, their reach now extends not just across North and South America, but into Europe, Africa, and Asia. This reach and power are based on one thing - trafficking illegal drugs.
The US spent millions trying to capture its leader Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, but his imprisonment in 2019 has barely dented the cartel’s ability to traffic drugs, murder competitors, corrupt officials and rake in billions.
This is because law enforcement and most media fundamentally misunderstand how the Sinaloa Cartel works.
This episode explores how a mix of ultra-flexible adaptability has created a business model that has allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to change with the times, and maintain their hold on the international illicit drugs market.
0:00 Intro
1:28 The Roots of the War on Drugs
2:20 The Structure of the Sinaloa Cartel
3:18 Los Zetas
5:18 The Hunt for 'El Chapo'
8:40 Corruption
9:40 The Future of the Cartel
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#sinaloa #elchapo
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As a Mexican living in Culiacan, the aspect of this that pains me the most is the lifestyle centered around the cartels; children here grow up wanting to join them, and it's extremely upsetting to watch more people getting involved in it on a regular basis. Movies, music, and television programs all contribute to this culture and encourage people to believe they are doing well for themselves.
You are absolutely right and it’s so so sad.
Yeah the whole glamorization of narco culture in Mexico and the US is very dangerous. Here in the US we already had it with rap and street gangs and now it’s getting worse. That life is a dead end. Prison or death is all there is in that life. What’s the point of making millions if you can’t enjoy it. Constantly looking over your shoulders for competition or the police.
Mass hypnosis
Mass psychosis
@@valporkins4453 facts
the capture and the immediate release of el Chapo's son was just insane, as soon as they found out the police had captured him the Cartel took control of the city Bane style. The feds could do literally nothing and were forced to just give him back.
The police never captured him it was the military but the president took the decision to let him go to not create chaos like it happens in other states when they capture a cartel leader or an operator
@@edwardggarcia7705 it’s scary that they have the firepower to back up such a threat.
Cartel issued a war statement too which they have done before where it becomes a warzone unless they released him
Definitely a G move. You know you're protected when...
you should see the body cam footage of the soldiers when they realized who they accidentally arrested 😂😂😂 they turned white through the slits of their ski masks 😂
seeing Vice dive back into this style of content gives me hope..
@Marcell Uche the FBI is definitely watching your ass.
Even though they got the illustrators like this guy, I don’t like this guy’s way of explaining
1 of 2 comments are shadow banned
The guy has flames visibly shooting from his ass. The guys horriblw at this b
@@oldironsides4107 your comment is shadow banned too lol. Side bar, were you in the Army or Marines?
I'm from Culiacán, Sinaloa. A few years ago I witnessed a car theft at gun point outside my home. Two days later the thief was found dead with signs of torture and with Hot Wheels cars glued to his back. It was a message from the cartel to all the car theft gangs. The cartel did the same to the kidnapping gangs and has been doing it for a while as a way of protecting us. A lot of people praise the cartel for doing so and support them (not me). BUT the capture and release of Ovidio (El Chapo's son) in 2019 and again last weekend were two episodes of terror that changed the entire perspective. Now people are afraid of the cartel, and many are suffering from PTSD from last weekend's rampage of shootings, burnings and theft. People are afraid of leaving their homes because we hate to admit that the worse is yet to come.
It's actually the same or similar with a lot of criminal organizations all around the world. All people of such organization first started out as some sort of "Robin Hood" by assisting and contributing to their local community from all the profits their gained from criminal activities like drugs, gambling alcohol smuggling and other vices. However as time goes on and as their crime organization gets ever larger and larger, they become even more power and money hungry, only seeing themselves as a some form of benevolent "necessary evil" to their community.
Wow that’s sad😢😮
Saludd
I feel sorry for the majority of genuinely good people in Mexico who are caught in the crossfire.
Who said they're any different?
Es culpa de los gringos
@Howard how?
I feel bad for the good gringos lmao supply follows demand stay loyal to the foil America. Puro jale y botones azules all synthetic the way they love it
@Howard drgs go up north…. Guns and money goes down south. Mexico doesn’t manufacture guns
God I love these old styled Vice documentaries that you guys are doing again. Thank you!!
This is not old style. Old style would be being on the ground, not talking about it in a video my friend.
I guess you also love GTA(-like) games insteed of strategy games? P.S. The host looks like a twin of this Russian guy who was born in Australia (at 0:50) - watch?v=kTEXA8QdfAk
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet Very true
We need more cartel documentaries from Vice!!!
No they spread mostly propaganda and a more bs and they don’t cover other sources that are important.
@@frenchbeluga7055 Kindly direct me to those other sources I can check out
@@mattgraver3604 just search them up like government lies and exposed areas I would recommend discord or war leaks it’s very easy to come across people who have links to certain websites as well.
🍏C I A nurtured the cartels in the 1970s/1980s, they still likely run the trade now.
Agreed as you can see that’s where you guys get the most views and more subs!!!
The 'we like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs' at the end of these Vice documentaries always gets me 😂😂
Yeah it just bursts with emotion doesn’t it😐 some Whiney private school 21 yo vice employee who definitely knows what she’s talking about 🙄
@@tenfold7493 its been going on since the 70s with no chance of ending time soon so yeah drugs won
@@BIGGUCCISEB stop liking your own comments in a vain attempt to re enforce your mute point.
As disturbing and as shameful as it sounds, I live in an area controlled by Sinaloa cartel. I can tell you that we live in peace, no one is bothered, people aren’t extorted, my uncle owns 200 cattle head and has never had one stolen. Unfortunately the way things are, Sinaloa cartel is still the least violent cartel.
Same in guerrero with my family If one cartel is in control then its peaceful...unless that specific cartel is struggling then it begins price gouging. My fam hopes CJNG eventually takes control of guerrero because the LFM is price gouging😄 Oh well not my prob
When you say no one is being extorted, are you trying to say that there isn't a tax? I highly doubt that your uncle keeps his cattle without paying tax to the cartel, and that is extortion. One of the main tactics of extortion is to make victims feel as if they are being done a favour.
@@the_local_bigamist Isn't that what the american government does 😆
@@the_local_bigamist my uncle has never payed tax, none of the local businesses have payed tax, I live in a very small town, and people are buying new tractors to farm land, Mexican Americans are building mansions, including my self, I’m not building a mansion but it is a two story home, and no one ever bothers us. The cartel has opened shop there in my town, but all they do is sell beer, and protect their territory. Now there is a very rich family there that might be taxed for protection, but I’m not sure. What I do know is that they’ve always been Ultra wealthy, at least for a small town. and I’ve never seen them be in fear or nothing. They own a lot of land, houses, 18 wheelers, and they’ve never been kidnapped or anything that I’ve known of.
@@mayanaztec6440 so the cartels leave you alone and your peeps alone but gun down woman and children from a Mormon community?
I was waiting for this from so long. Thanks Vice.
Amazing documentary Vice you did it again!
Great report Jamie, keep them coming!
I want to see a documentary which talks about the DEA's involvement in the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Narcos and narcos Mexico on Netflix
Go read el traidor the book says how El chapo was contacted by the dea in prison then El mayo broke him out months later to make the deal with the dea
Not to mention the currently involvement now
We'll look for those documentaries then
Correct Narcos and Narcos Mexico has already covered that
Vice really got some good content on KZhead, wouldn't expect media to try this hard.
This topic is one of the ones vice actually does a great job covering. I'm not a fan of most of vice's content but I do like this coverage and a few of their other topics.
If you do your research, most of the leaders in the 70's-80's who branched out came from Sinaloa.
@@MZ95 do you have a recommendation of a book/author to help educate myself on the subject?
@@User-54631 lmk if he/she replies because that’s the first time I heard of that lmao 😂
@@45kingofkings He is just saying what he heard from Luis Chaparro on his recent episode on the Koncrete podcast
@@User-54631 “Narcos Mexico” on Netflix does a good job.
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I live in Colombia. The problem Mexico has now is very similar to what we faced 30 years ago. They have a long way to go. We lost the war on drugs and is costing our countries lots of blood.
This is so heartbreaking. I’m sorry 🥺
now they're thinking about legalizing cocaine
the war on drugs was never real
It’s on a lot bigger scale and is a lot worse and will continue to get worse
@@kodak_blackglee good, only way to stop the war on drugs
Feel sorry for the kids that get effectively forced into the cartels with only one way to get out☠️
Sinaloa cartel doesn’t force no one to join them it’s all voluntarily
They literally want to join
They not forced man. Just gotta mind your business and not get into wrong crowd the US media be exaggerating at times
@@carlosa164 I think he means about those who grow up in poorer areas with no other ways to make good money
@@galacthicc693 then you go do something else go hunt
Back to the old vice type of videos, Feels Good Man 🤙🏽❤️
seeing Vice dive back into this style of content gives me hope... We need more cartel documentaries from Vice!!!.
Another excellent Vice episode. Thankyou.
Men I love these cartel videos that Vice is making
Man* not men 🙄
@@HShango ok it’s not my first language
@@HShango shut up
@@dcjkl8088 it's ok brother
Good thing fentynal is taking care of the world's drug issues. Great work CcP. The only ones to truly fight against all drugs.
This guy should make his own channel, he's good at this
I lost my childhood friend and to Gangs In the city of Mangaluru in south India. Its tough. We were classmates. He was a very friendly boy, he had a lot of potential but he had a disturbed upbringing which led to him joining a gang when we were in school. He eventually dropped out of school. He was murdered around the time I was about to finish college. Worst part is the cops were the ones who sold him out to a rival gang and they hacked him to death. Looking back, he always Idolized gangster and looked up to them, its sick.
Disturbing
Are the gangs in India similar to gangs in California like Chicano gangs
@@joselara371 no, they are underground or arrested. they can't do anything to common people otherwise they will get encountered by police
@@joselara371there more violent I know that
@@Stevehboy Indian gangs are more violent or US gangs?
finally this is what I was waiting for I love the story of El Chapo I just wish it was a little bit longer thank you Vice
Klonopin?
Great episode 👏
Great job as always Jamie.... Lol it will always be a cat and mouse game... At least the drugs were good quality when Guzman was running the shot
@vice great video… do you know of any stats of how much the United States spends on the “war on drugs” vs how much, or value is stopped by that war?
It's a catch 22, this man employed and truly helped a lot of people in areas that their government wouldn't, but at the same time did bad things too...
Bro literally had relations w lil girls
@@icallmy12gnot12 I am an absolutely no way shape or form calling this man a saint. In fact he could be called a POS. Hence why I said it's a catch-22 which I don't think you know what that means... But the man provided jobs to areas that agriculture really just declined significantly.... He had a way to stimulate economies that many economies were lacking in those days keep in mind this was the 1990s. Our economy tanks starting right after 9/11 when we were dumping a bunch of money into a war that we couldn't afford meanwhile that man was stimulating a lot of economies there are huge parts of Mexico that speak highly of the man, but there are also a lot of people that he wronged and did horrible things to and needs to spend the rest of his life in prison with his penis cut off. That doesn't change things he did that were positive though.... I think a lot of people forget that 3/4 of what the cartet does is farming... These guys are all farmers and ranchers that at one point or another we're tired of being broke because it didn't make enough money doing all that work growing corn losing money year after year they say screw it and start growing crops that actually turn a profit but then once they start making that profit they have to protect that profit and if they expand and get enough people involved that become what our government classifies as a cartel. Believe it or not it's pretty much just a whole bunch of corrupt politics and farmers and that's pretty much what cartels are.
@@icallmy12gnot12 kzhead.info/sun/md2OnqufhH6miaM/bejne.html
LOVE THE CONTENT
Thank you vice 🙏🏼🙌🏼
When El Chapo was arrested I sneered. A PR moment that would mean absolutely nothing. I live in the southwest of Mexico. Sadly, the drug profits don't make it to the three poorest states.
So u want trickle down profit from drug trade?
@@addyred1861 wake up
It’s an unending cycle!
Fine good video keep it up.
Love this series
I’m from Sinaloa I’m so disappointed 😔 what has this world become this world was made for joy not this
Seen a few cartel videos when I was a dumb teenager, fucking regret it. The victims aside, I can’t imagine how awful it must be for the people who actually live in these areas
I remember watching a narco video like that as a teen as well. Took me a while to get over the images and sounds.
You either took drugs didn't pay them back Or you took a loan from to sell and didn't sell them to quota Or you stole something from cartel Or you have family gang member that pissed off a rival Or the cartel is just bored want to kill someone Or you had a sister that cartel member wanted didn't get so they kill you and get it anyway One of the few ways you will die unmark grave and have your body desecrated 🤔
I mean they tortured people right?
@@damiantirado9616 skinning people alive. Feeding them their own organs. Taking their fingernails off one by one. Killing innocent family members too.
Yeah I work as a professional psychologist always advise people to be very careful what they watch, close the video quick if you see realy `nasty` stuff If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you¬ Nietzsche In modern terms you change the neural connections and burn deep memories
Finally, a Vice video about vice. Just like the olden days.
As enlightening as the documentary is, it's giving me anxiety for the Mexican people from half way across the globe. There's so much rampant corruption..
It exists everywhere. Some countries are just better at hiding it because they are more powerful and have been doing it for a lot longer. Read about the Opium Wars in China and have a look at what the British did - the British imperialists were no better than the cartels of today. Not to mention other horrors such as the slave trade.
@@the_local_bigamist that is absolute, nihilistic NONSENSE. To suggest that all countries are as corrupt as MEXICO, is either the height of ignorance or brain-dead cynicism. To compare present time to something that happened over 150 years ago is beyond idiotic and intellectually dishonest.
Is not paradise but is not as bad as this videos makes it out to be. Mexico receives over 40 million tourist a year and most make it safely back home while having a good time in Mexico💃
sorry, "Awareness of Sibling Debate vs. Written Language (written legislative-judicial records)" was a purely anti-religious comment of mine which implied that religions were great in theory, but I implicitly asked whether religions actually resulted in the victory of Written Language (written legislative-judicial records) against Sibling Debate. Yes, I'm proposing to be a better gold digger than the ones who will arrive in spaceships to hunt Lexie Liu
everywhere that had a heavy european presence in it at any point in time is a corrupt pile of garbage now lol. its not just there. thats how life is everywhere outside of europe and the gated communities elsewhere. life is waaaay more messed up than you have been allowed to learn about
The main problem in these societies is corruption. Corruption completely ruins a society if you let it seep in. That's why it's so important to have absolutley 0 tolerance for criminals or corruption in countries that have currently low corruption.
💯! Mexico should not be a 3rd world country with all it's rich resources but Mexico's government is very shameless and arrogant about their corruption.
The war on drugs show is probably one of the few good shows vice has left
Prayers and condolences
Los Zetas are now mainly know as Cartel del Noreste, or Northeast Cartel. Others splintered off to another group, now allied to factions of the Gulf Cartel.
World's most notorious and dangerous... The Sinaloa cartel ❌ was waiting for this episode for a while 🙌
That's not a good thing. They are peasants and only in a completely failed and corrupt state can they be a threat. IN all other countries (for example European) they would be eradicated very quickly.
Vice is killing it with these pieces
I really really like the mini docs
The war on drug was just big business for prisons el chapo got caught and Sinaloa is still going strong how many other drug lords haven't been killed or in prison yet countries are still being flooded with drugs
@@BabytacoFace it's still one entity at the end look at how they shut down sinaloa when Chapos son got captured the whole state got ran over by the sinaloa cartel not just los chapitos side
The US and local governments have funded the cartels from the start, as far back as project underworld during WW2
They’re like the hydra cut off one head and two more grow in its place. It’d be nearly impossible to kill it in one fell swoop.
lol no one knows chavó Félix n em
@@chamodelalima8986 That’s the homies
Next video How the DEA became the biggest cartel in the world
I’m very interested, do you know of any books/ authors to educate myself in this subject?
You mean the CIA and Us government
With the cia and feds… they are the worst the world has ever seen
@@Mmmmgood317 the worst they pretend to be good and christian
@Neil Deep just stating “Iran contra” that tells me you not well read in the subject. Cause the OP said DEA not CIA. In Iran contra the DEA are the ones who discovered the CIA connection during surveillance of the Columbia cartel. Less KZhead more books.
The question the government never asks: is all this collateral damage violence murder incarceration and systemic poverty worth drugs being illegal?
Very cool piece
The war on drugs will never be won.
EISH ! This is the reason why i want it all to be legalized . at least we'll deal with sick people but the goods would be worthless
If it’s legalized it will be won
@Bringthephunk you right about that
The solution: end prohibition, allow the users into rehabilitation or treatment (which also needs serious reforms). The longer they keep this stuff illegal the longer it will keep making cartels rich
Nice video
8:01 great observation. The Cartels are excellent Machiavellian entities. Using the tools at their disposal WHEN and WHERE necessary, including violence
lots of information and documentaries about Mexican drug cartels, but I'm curious to know: once drugs cross the US border, who is in charge of distributing it down to the final consumer? (i.e. kids buying dope in the streets). are Mexican cartels so strong that they fully operate in the States at distribution level? are there American cartels in charge of doing that? if so, how come we rarely hear about them?
it's called DEA collaborators, they are making a pretty penny out of it, more than a prohibition it's a monopoly.
@@MZ95 what an ignorant statement
@@Zach-vh1fv but its TRUE. Who would sell? Bloods And crips they sell
They distribute to American street gangs who operate their area for example in southern California their clicked up with la eme the Mexican mafia la eme then distributes all the drugs to the gangs that pleas allegiance to them and work for them which it's alot it's harder for the cartel to bring and sell drugs in a different country it's easier to work with the existing gangs criminal organizations in the states and let them sell it in their areas of control but don't get me wrong cartel definitely be in USA tho
GREAT QUESTION 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
CAN WE GET AN UPDATED VIRSION OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS ? You GUYS JUST TOOK CLIPS FROM OLD VIDEOS AND MASHED THEM UP TOGETHER COME ON VICE YOU GUYS WERE ALWAYS ON TOP OF THINGS
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For real, CJNG is pretty big
itd be nice to see a video focused on how violence developed in key state Nuevo León
Someone has to do it. This is life, you take the good with the bad.
It’s crazy how this is developing 🥺
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@@zoeplsno she be watching same videos we do
@@louieDsypo nah its kinda sus how her comments r EVERYWHERE 💀
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Sinaloa is no longer an actual single entity it’s split up into many different factions who all oppose eachother for the most part.
It was never a single entity, but was always lead by el mayo
@@frankmurillo422 if it was unified to the point that it was run by one guy, I'd say it's a single entity
@@shrimpandsilver5010 more unity yes factions wouldnt fight each other as much but did. El chapo never ran it, needed permission from MZ to do a lot moves hes the real boss
@@frankmurillo422 exactly I try to tell people chapo just had his faction, like the public face of the company but not the owner. Mz is the nr 1
@@livsnjutaresverige3802 el mayo was never number 1 😂 number 1 rat maybe
Pls More!!!
Can yall go next to the Guadalajara zone that would be awesome
The attitude towards profit is interesting to me. A company making bleach for example is evil motivated by profit. The drug trade is just fulfilling a demand.
It’s just like prohibition United States used to have the same level of crime and organized crime back in the 1920s and 1930s. Large operations that involved making moonshine in peoples house same way with meth labs nowadays to smuggling alcohol from Canada through the coasts. Saint Valentine’s Day massacre is an event that happens often in Mexico but it sticks out in American history cuz is one of the few executions style assassinations. Only reason all that ended is because alcohol was made legal again. If it didn’t more massacres like Saint Valentines would of occurred to the point that the Saint Valentines massacre wouldn’t be as iconic as it is now
@@JJ-fo7zj The Valentine day massacre is kinda the Diet Coke of massacres don’t you think? There are suburban teenagers in current times that gotten higher body counts then then that massacre.
I think the Term "The drug trade is just fulfilling a demand." is meant to be understood as the answer to the Question "Why are there these criminal structures?". Of course this cartel is evil motivated by profit. Fulfilling the demand does not justify anything they are doing, but it explains, why there are people doing what they are doing.
@@User-54631 oh yea don’t get me wrong it’s nothing compared to todays massive shootings, but it was in the history books I learned from in high school. Is just a landmark assassination. But at the time how the whole operation was executed it was revolutionary, posing as cops to shoot up the competition. Since then several cases have carried out the same way. Like with the bus full of students that were executed by cartel members on the orders of a mayor of some town in Mexico.
@@Johannesf I’m not saying to legalize all drugs and that organized crime is justified, but like old saying goes “money is the root of all evil”. It’s just profit and power
What really bothers me isn't their shady activities, it's their their brutality and lack of any emotions that bothers me. Funkytown and ghost rider execution videos are good examples, I mean many mafias wouldn't go that far and still have humanity on them.
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The Drug business is unbelievably brutal 🤕.... Only those who saw the crime knows it 🤕
Good job
Just to point out, the story at 07:57 also included the lead detective who lead the case being killed in a car park as retaliation after his son was released. The video can be seen on news websites.
Was that the guy they shot over a hundred times outside a shop?
@@Jason-im3pz Possibly, if I remember there were two of them with automatic weapons.
Eso si
I remember seeing that on the news
You should check out "world's most wanted ep 1 "el mayo " one of Mexico's underground oligarch...
Release the man. We need new episode on Netflix!
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If I grew up poor and I saw an opportunity to change the lives and future of the people around me like loved ones at the expense of just one future, my future. Whether it's death or life behind bars. It would change the course of my family for a better and well off future that would otherwise would have taken generations to achieve what he did in one lifetime. Sacrifices are made and a man's family is worth the world! So he will gladly set the world on fire for what he deems his world no questions asked.
It’s a zero sum game. If he burns the world , he is going down with it. No future, ever , was secured on drug money. Just saying.
El Mayo let el chapo have the spotlight while holding all the real power. Very smart. The guy even told his son to do what he had to when he got caught. His son became an informant but they still couldn't get to dad. Knowing chapo is locked for life he takes care of his son's. Mayo is loyal and highly intelligent. Probably would be a ceo somewhere if he wasn't born in sinaloa
Some CEO’s are as bad a criminal as the drug cartels. 😊
Taking a note from Augustus. You don't want the limelight.
ahhh our weekly cartel video from vice
“This is only happens in movies” El chapo: hold my beer..
Hold my popcorn 🍿
You’re not understanding why the US specifically targeted Chapo. It was Chicago specifically targeting him because his own organization’s employees were the ones caught in Chicago. Chicago then employed the aid of the federal government. They take it case by case. When another organization’s employee gets busted they do the same thing.
Thanks for the advanced journalism mr! War on drugs seems to work as fine as covid policies.
4:20 that small boat may contain more profit than the tanker vessel behind LOL
The fact that we get free videos on KZhead by VICE is truly a gift. 🤚
They haven't seen the madness CJNG and Los Zetas left behind in this country, they need to make a documentary about that.
Currently Mexico is one of the richest countries in the world, Mexico is the 6th most visited country in the world, the 6th car manufacturer and autoparts, spacial parts, aeroespacial etc. Mexico is the 15th world economy, in the world, projected to be the 7th world economy, and the main bussiness partner of the USA.
Still a narcostate
"Let's use the take where you sounded bored." "We only did one take."
Some say the journey from sinaloa to that court house was actually paved with gold…….. Chapo is the Frankenstein monster of US drug policy and its imposition on other nations.
The Sinaloa federation is so compartmentalized that it's almost impossible to stop
Lol The war on drugs is like cutting the head off a snake but the snake has several heads and you realize you've been cutting the tail and it's really a lizard and the tail keeps growing back. Lol
Could have just called it a hydra, homie. Lol
The real leader of the sinaloa cartel has never been arrested
Bro the hype i feel waiting for this particular dude from vice to begin his thing...
The war on drugs will never end.
How tragic that these individuals used their gifts and talents to destroy rather than revitalize Mexico.
Mayo and Chapo were like Birdman and Slim of the dope game.
That is so true they arrest someone there’s always somebody else to take his place,always have a back up plan, The saying what if
Title of this video should be “How the Sinaloa Cartel became the USA’s favourite illegal drug purveyor” Supply and demand!,
The rule of law is a thin sheet of glass marked "if you have the power break as needed"
Yeah if you take out the cartel leader everyone says, "Hey I guess we have to quit now. Here, take our billions of dollars, apparently all that was illegal. My bad."
Fascinating. 👍
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Extremely smart group. Keep it up fellas
El Chapo was not head of the Sinaloa Cartel. El Mayo Zambada has always been. Yes, they each ran their own faction, however, that does not change that Chapo gave orders on behalf of his compadre Mayo.
Mayo a rat
El chapo looks like every Mexican persons dad in fact I'm going as my dad for Halloween this year.
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