mexico - Video - Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org2024-03-29T02:32:41Zhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/feed/tag/mexicoMexican Cartels have exported their cocaine war to Ecuadorhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/mexican-cartels-have-exported-their-cocaine-war-to-ecuador2023-05-28T13:26:49.000Z2023-05-28T13:26:49.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11151612071?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Powerful Mexican cartels have exported their drug war south and are turning Ecuador into a war zone. The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel are locked in an entrenched battle to control Ecuador’s drug routes, fueling a 245 percent explosion in the country’s murder rate in just two years and driving an unprecedented number of Ecuadorians to flee to the U.S.</span></p>
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</ul></div>Documentary | Millennials in Mexico - born into the world of drug cartelshttps://gangstersinc.org/video/documentary-millennials-in-mexico-born-into-the-world-of-drug-car2023-04-15T07:00:21.000Z2023-04-15T07:00:21.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11028349899?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">What’s life like for young people born into the world of Mexican drug cartels? The documentary shows the everyday life of a group of young "sicarios” or hired assassins. The film follows young men as they drift around the Mexican state of Sinaloa, trying to come to terms with growing up, their work for the drug cartel and their aspirations for the future. The film shows "Los Plebes", as young people are called in northern Mexico and provides a glimpse into lives that seem predetermined by external circumstances. Too often, there is no way out of the spiral of violence for these young cartel members.</span></p>
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</ul></div>Narco-Propaganda is Fuelling Mexico’s Drug Warhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/narco-propaganda-is-fuelling-mexico-s-drug-war2023-03-25T11:55:22.000Z2023-03-25T11:55:22.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11003113655?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Like any war, the War on Drugs runs on propaganda. Mexican cartels stop at nothing to control their public image and the flow of information. From creating entire new genres of narco-rap music to the emerging generation of Cartel Tik Tok superstars, drug cartels are becoming pop culture brands. And this plays a key role in how they recruit young soldiers and cement their place within Mexican society. But there is also a very, very dark side. Anyone who tries to report on cartel violence and corruption can be attacked and murdered. Mexico is now the most dangerous country in the world for journalists outside of active war zones. </span></p>
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</ul></div>Chaos in Mexico: Author Ioan Grillo on Los Chapitos aftermath in Sinaloa and the Cartel landscapehttps://gangstersinc.org/video/chaos-in-mexico-author-ioan-grillo-on-los-chapitos-aftermath-in-s2023-01-10T11:32:26.000Z2023-01-10T11:32:26.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10928456253?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Mexican authorities <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/blog/no-one-is-above-the-law-not-even-the-son-of-el-chapo-guzman" target="_blank">captured Sinaloa Cartel leader and son of El Chapo Ovidio Guzmán</a>, in the city of Culiacan. Sicarios reacted by erecting roadblocks, terrorising civilians and killing cops, turning Culiacan into a war zone. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Some have rejected the news as a cynical PR coup for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ahead of a visit by Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau. But as seasoned narco reporter and author Ioan Grillo tells us, there’s far more to the dramatic episode—and it will have immediate effects on Mexico’s massive cartel landscape. </span></p>
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</ul></div>Mexico's Most Wanted Drug Kingpin: The Rise of El Mencho's CJNGhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/mexico-s-most-wanted-drug-kingpin-the-rise-of-el-mencho-s-cjng2022-10-01T13:35:24.000Z2022-10-01T13:35:24.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10832195901?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">The Jalisco New Generation Cartel are Mexico’s deadliest narco empire. But amidst rumours that <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/profile-jalisco-cartel-boss-nemesio-oseguera-cervantes" target="_blank">their leader</a> is actually dead – could this all be about to crumble? In ten-years the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have come from nothing to become the deadliest rising power in Mexican drug trafficking. They have achieved this by applying unprecedented levels of organised, paramilitary-style violence – even using tanks and drone warfare against other cartels and the Mexican military. But, rumours are swirling that the near-legendary boss of the CJNG is out of action – and possibly even dead. Could this be the beginning of the end for this brutal cartel empire? </span></p>
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</ul></div>How Sinaloa became Mexico’s biggest and most powerful drug cartelhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/how-sinaloa-became-mexico-s-biggest-cartel-the-war-on-drugs2022-09-16T06:27:18.000Z2022-09-16T06:27:18.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10813586098?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">The <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">Sinaloa Cartel</a> 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. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">This reach and power are based on one thing – trafficking illegal drugs. The US spent millions trying to capture its leader <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/the-end-mexico-narco-kingpin-joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-sentenced-to" target="_blank">Jaoquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman</a>, but his imprisonment in 2019 has barely dented the cartel’s ability to traffic drugs, murder competitors, corrupt officials and rake in billions. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">This is because law enforcement and most of the media fundamentally misunderstand how the Sinaloa Cartel works. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">This episode of VICE 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. </span></p>
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</ul></div>Was This Mexico's First Cartel Boss? The Mexican Queenpin Who Ran Juarez for 50 Yearshttps://gangstersinc.org/video/was-this-mexico-s-first-cartel-boss-the-mexican-queenpin-who-ran2022-07-09T08:54:13.000Z2022-07-09T08:54:13.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10631953897?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Before El Mencho or El Chapo, even before Pablo Escobar, there was Ignacia Jasso, otherwise known as “La Nacha.” She was the Queenpin of Juárez who ran the border heroin trade for 50 years from 1930 to 1980. Declared public enemy number one by the Americans, she still managed to escape the law by pretending to be an evangelical Christian and with the help of some extremely crafty lawyering. Danny is joined by Benjamin Smith, author of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade to talk La Nacha.</span></span></p>
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</ul></div>Arrellano-Felix drug cartel attempted kidnapping boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavezhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/arrellano-felix-drug-cartel-attempted-kidnapping-boxing-legend-ju2022-05-21T05:55:32.000Z2022-05-21T05:55:32.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10504482265?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In this episode of Street TV, David Contreras talks about intercepting a kidnap attempt of Mexican boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez by the Arrellano-Felix Mexican drug cartel in 2017. </span></p>
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</ul></div>WATCH | Major drug-smuggling tunnel found on US-Mexico borderhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/watch-major-drug-smuggling-tunnel-found-on-us-mexico-border2022-05-19T08:38:27.000Z2022-05-19T08:38:27.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10500198098?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">American authorities have discovered a drug-smugglers' tunnel running under the US-Mexico border. Stretching from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in San Diego, the so-called "narco-tunnel" thought to be 1,744 feet (530 meters) long, 61 feet deep and four feet in diameter, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California said in a statement Monday.</span></p>
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</ul></div>Uncovering crime and corruption of Mexican drug cartels - Journalism in exilehttps://gangstersinc.org/video/uncovering-crime-and-corruption-of-mexican-drug-cartels-journalis2022-05-06T06:37:38.000Z2022-05-06T06:37:38.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10467670078?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">What does it mean to no longer be safe in your own country? In the documentary 'Guardians of Truth', exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar meets a woman who has locked horns with Mexico’s most powerful entities: the government, and the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">drug cartels</a>. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In Erdoğan’s Turkey, Can Dündar is public enemy number one. After he uncovered illegal Turkish arms shipments to Syria in 2015, the President said he was a terrorist, and personally called for a life sentence in prison for the journalist. Can Dündar fled to Germany following an attempt on his life during his trial. Since then, he has continued to defend his homeland against the autocrat’s lies, promoting freedom of speech from exile. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Dündar meets the journalist Anabel Hernández, who’s been investigating drug-related crime and corruption in Mexico for more than 20 years, publishing numerous books and articles on the subject. She is best-known for highlighting close links between the government and the drug clans -- ground-breaking research that almost cost her her life. Luckily, she wasn’t at home on the day 11 armed men showed up to shoot her dead. She knew then that she would have to leave her home country. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Not that she doesn’t return from time to time, under tight security, to continue her work and see her family. Can Dündar meets her in exile and then again, during one of these highly dangerous trips back home. He poses the pivotal question: what’s driving her to take this huge risk again and again?</span></p>
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</ul></div>Inside the World's Deadliest Cartel - Former Navy SEAL talks to journalist who embedded with the Sinaloa Cartelhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/inside-the-world-s-deadliest-cartel-former-navy-seal-talks-to-jou2022-04-16T14:56:39.000Z2022-04-16T14:56:39.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10394027687?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">After being embedded with the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, journalist Luis Chaparro gives viewers of the Shawn Ryan Show an insight never seen before. Former Navy SEAL Ryan and Chaparro discuss fentanyl production, how China is teaching cartels how to make a new drug deadlier and more addictive than fentanyl, tactical training of the Sinaloa Cartel, and more. </span></p>
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</ul></div>Officials killed in one Mexican state up by 300 percenthttps://gangstersinc.org/video/officials-killed-in-one-mexican-state-up-by-300-percent2022-03-28T18:13:40.000Z2022-03-28T18:13:40.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10244066896?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Police in Mexico are increasingly becoming targets of drug cartels. There has been a surge in killings of men and women in uniform. But things are particularly bad in the state of Zacatecas, where the number of police killed has tripled in three years. </span></p>
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</ul></div>The Rise and Fall of El Chapo: The Untold Story of Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Lordhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/the-rise-and-fall-of-el-chapo-the-untold-story-of-mexico-s-most-n2022-03-25T10:22:40.000Z2022-03-25T10:22:40.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10236958285?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Before <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/the-end-mexico-narco-kingpin-joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-sentenced-to" target="_blank">Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman</a> became the most wanted man in Mexico, he was a member of a plucky narcotics start-up. His criminal career skyrocketed after taking control of the Sinaloa Cartel, which grew into the world’s most powerful drug trafficking syndicate. Based on years of investigative, on-the-ground reporting, journalist Noah Hurowitz will reveal El Chapo’s rapid rise to power and eventual life sentence in a U.S. prison.</p>
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</ul></div>Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartelhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/inside-mexico-s-most-powerful-drug-cartel2022-03-06T19:08:10.000Z2022-03-06T19:08:10.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10173917459?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">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."</span></p>
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</ul></div>Jailed Mexican drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo talks about DEA agent "Kiki" Camarenahttps://gangstersinc.org/video/jailed-mexican-drug-lord-miguel-angel-felix-gallardo-talks-about2021-12-12T10:31:12.000Z2021-12-12T10:31:12.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9903530271?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Mexican drug lord <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/the-real-narcos-profile-of-miguel-angel-felix-gallardo-mexico-s-e" target="_blank">Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo</a> sits down with Noticias Telemundo in his first interview since his arrest in 1989. He talks about DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, for whose murder he was sentenced to 37 years prison time.</p>
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