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lose the fix the coast in a lower, cato is amongst the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. its multi $1000000000.00 revenue gains and trafficking narcotics into the united states. it also causes immense hum, destroying countless lives and corrupting everything. it touches the sea does money . so how does it operate in this to episode report will make a vincent product went behind the scenes to find out i

i coolly a can mexico, the stronghold of one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. the sinaloa cartel, its 40 international drug trafficking, me and read those books again and his colleagues have been working for the cartels for several years. they are c carpios', hitman, one on the fellow fellow lab that

fastened his boss had asked him to kill one person, but when it came to it, he had to kill 3. 0, don't know, but i know the money. i know. i don't know why i'm not deal radical when we're in the year and the 2 men always have their weapons on hand. at any moment. they could be called for a job. that's the good luck they often stop by and pray to sent them where the goddess of death in this little chapel by the side of the road

on the tuesday carpios prepare an offering for her phone. i haven't been going on now yet about little i'm going to get both now. i wanted the mechanic and i will get it will. yeah, la la la la la marina. but on the ghetto and his accomplice must leave. they have

a meeting with their boss sometime in the night, one of the contacts informed us that a murder has just been reported to the authorities. upon our arrival, the forensic medics are already on location. the world is, you know, something that you kind of what i'm doing to use for the purposes of the investigation. the crime scene is analyzed and photographed from all angles. the forensic specialist has few doubts that this is a new victim of the cartels african i'm in the last thing that we're going to see in the book and things that i know that you most just on the board who say wait for every minute

reading in mexico many corpses shows signs of torture, killing my they get, they are near the boys, the gay, and also made the audio the film which i just was very in mexico. this drug war between rival cartels kills almost 25000 people every year . the beautiful beaches, popular amongst tourists, almost uninhabited mountains, peaceful country side as far as the i can see in a lower heights, its dark side, well, its capital clear can is considered a hub of global drug trafficking, primarily to the united states. the opium, cocaine, cannabis, and fentanyl,

the sooner lower cartel can pocket anywhere from 3 to 12000000000 dollars each year . in an effort to learn the money, the traffic is invest heavily into the local economy. buying villas, and even shopping malls. more than 200000 people are said to work directly or indirectly for the knockers. even pharmacists who import the products needed to manufacture synthetic drugs. because in poor neighborhoods, the business of drug traffic was attract much attention. many young women strive to seduce a rich criminal. however, in 15 years, this drug war has already led to the death of more than 230000 people in mexico. i meant that there was mom and testing your land. since 2006,

the mexican state with the health of the united states has been trying to eradicate the cartels but without success. despite a couple of themed arrests like the capture of the renowned chapel in 2016, the legend b boss of the sinaloa cartel and ranking as the 701st richest person in the world. according to forbes, the current leaders of the sinaloa cartel are still extremely powerful. they have an army of 100000 men, the famous c cardio. but within the cartel, rivalries are common. 3 crowns of fighting for control over the territory. several groups in the cartel have exceptionally opened their doors to us. we gained exclusive access into this violent world, where money is power, corruption is rampant, and murder is daily. the

i investigation into the sinaloa cartel begins here, a 5 hour drive from cooley, a con. kind of is trafficking began in these mountains in the sixty's and then the following opium boom. in the early 2000 a man who worked civil years to the l. chapo plan agreed to meet us. he is still a drug trafficker. chapo helped him get into business on the go as you know, i won't be able to i was going to know

that by him, but i was little bit of when i went to the mon, the weight of our meeting over a 1000000 in baton. and then it went, we went up as on north refundable or a mile plan, not only 3 years in the where i live in northern and pull them out. the manuel owns a puppy field with which heroine is made. oh, on me, we'll get along

with his men. every morning he harvests opium gum, a brown v. good material obtained by making an incision in the capsule o a keeler. the substance is worth $600.00 euros in sooner. lower and much more once it reaches american soil. it was the new custom which triplet, they're going to give and 3 and rather than they was, and that was him. and that of a 1000 you his field until about $6000.00 euros net per year. double the average salary in mexico. but a 3rd less than in l. chapo time. enough. where to give him a little money look here. yes. but he cannot do that again or it what i didn't think i would that all of my life within the plan to get it at the right. you're not rather with it, but i'm a little bit in, at the end of the morning on his ranch,

the opium grow assess the harvest. this is our, it was the single cables we'll see if the good amount it manuel tells us that once the expenses and workers salaries are paid, he doesn't have much left. the synthetic drugs to compete with man was opium, crystal mis, and particularly fentanyl fentanyl is a substance 40 times more powerful than heroine. one kilogram of his drug can generate up to $1500000.00 in profit. busy me to understand the rising fentanyl market. we go back to clear can to the hotel room of again the hit man who worships center,

work day. who is no no, no, so don't want him to get in fighting over the years and get a has risen in rank. in addition to being c cardio, he is a so called chess. that is to say, he makes drugs for the cartel that i'm a guy, was him when i went to her bramble, the nessie, and me my dear me in mexico, one pill cost less than a dollar in the united states had cost between 15 to 30 times more than 10 or 13 in term and then can, can, over in sagamore,

lose your money, her lunch and dinner single day. the way this extremely dangerous drug kills more than 30000 people in the united states every year in order for worker. for now, we're going to get it off to getting permission from his cartel as get agreed to show us how he makes fenton ill news, hundreds of hidden trees scattered all over the mexican countryside. ghettos, the bar tree is only 2 hours from the center of clear can i sent an ill was originally used as medicine and opioid analgesic use to leave intense

pain. due to its high intensity and low cost traffickers have changed its youth by cutting it with heroine and other chemicals. in last, the manufacturing process is delicate and dangerous. it hasn't foregoing miles. here will draw it out. well, some of which other ones i can let them know, but a bumble. what will happen in time focuses on really good gala. and he told me that the cheese press is jammed pepper every minute counts. at any moment, the watchman positioned in the surrounding area can inform them by radio of an army patrol near by more credible. now everything is back to

normal. when we go all go sorry, look at this number. i guess what i've seen glinda was in different. i'm using the wasn't all feel you're not going to when we go. no more but her. i've got enough time for me to get earns about $800.00 euros per hitman job. but cooking for the cartel brings much more around. $13.00 see team which only natal know me on the total, i'm going to get started working for the cartel at 16 years old,

1st as a lookout then as an assistant in laboratory where he learned the recipes, one of the think. and i'm going to go out how long was the keeper and i see that again. you know the from way and get to know that he will never be able to leave the cartel and leave a more peaceful existence for going home with her or her on her son, which i don't know was very hard on the northern italian been a been a little follow them on the moon was this package of drugs will be hidden in a cartel vehicle to be taken to the city. another team is in charge of making the pills of her ghetto is under orders of

a prominent drug baron in the area. you know, i know, are familiar to me, and i mean in the winter and me, how do bosses run hotels? what rules must be respected? after long negotiations, gatos both agreed to speak with us. he gave us a meeting point close to the bar tree. he is accompanied by his men, they protect their boss and survey the surrounding area. the boss is delighted with the world wide interest in fenton hill. return. look at those and let them i thought and let them let all my. when the sissy miranda is not there, q, do you see the minority?

but i think we can find miles the little, look them up a little bit, a boy leaders, and i next opening in the me, the cartel, his band, the sale, and use that this drug in sinaloa as it has devastating effects on the body. they look out for those who don't listen. in any case, i'm going to be both of them and i from telephone and as he pulled damian, what is your full of bottles? you know, what is there isn't as it is in the car. hello sarah. both right, and i got a bit of a tumble to have a chance of joining the cartel. all candidates must pass an entrance exam among my k. saddler. she know, i just, i can all the parallel to the sagen, depending on the my not, i don't know. pressing all about putting on my end to

me this afternoon. the last production of fentanyl must be loaded into a cartel vehicle. when i looked back at the berlin period in the see cardio, make sure that the surrounding area is safe. ah, i can tell them one of them. i want you to buy my gales. those are the bug. allow her that the for the guys but little belinda margie sent me to collect a debt. i get the label to the group fears a military raid the only ones they can't corrupt. unlike the police, just a little bit of the out the but i get the thought that again the, the green light is given to begin loading the

piano and his assistance finished packaging. the fenton the nothing got on my no, on the la number. but if it is active, they want you. so then when i went to the also the rutledge, then he left for put up to him for the last. now was one of our number one us and mentally for the journey. the group is equipped with military grade weapons going into people as people are in the middle of the rest of the weapons and drugs should not be visible from outside the vehicle and look in

the battery. so get a minute, graham, and i guess you know, yeah, here i is to you know, so are you a little less fun and i want to help you on the biggest danger is the rival cartels. ghetto has already been shot once again. my last passer away again. we are only on rare occasions to the cartels joined forces. as on october the 17th last year for the co ordinated rescue of video chapels, sun i thought, well, how long were you been? i'm for you, but i was in the dos doing area,

so i like so i last really article, but i was saying on the a dramatic event that shocked the entire country. ah, eladio guzman is hiding in this grand villa in the center of clear can when around 3 pm, i was captured by the police. a major arrest. chapo son is very much like his father, the powerful drug lord. the news of his capture spread like wildfire. the according to sources between 20800 c cardoso from different cartels are attacking the city. they are equipped with heavy

machine guns mounted on pickup truck. the fighting is extremely violent. the cartels quickly take over the even army vehicles are captured. the they also attack the guards of maximum security prisons, allowing dozens of prisoners to escape. at 5 30 pm, the president of mexico ordered the release of a video to bring an end to the blood boss the head levied and they let the government will not publish any official record of the event. and the story doesn't. and there

are a few days later in this parking lot. cctv camera footage shows the assassination of one of the police officers involved in the arrest of el chapo, son from this rate car force ricardo's shoot the man with nearly 150 bullets in 6 seconds. an execution to deter the authorities from attacking the big drug bosses. oh, in the 2nd part of this investigation, how the drug cartels wealth and notoriety attract the young poor and gullible and how the families of its victims are often left searching in despair. but i

it's one of the, well, the most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. and behind the death of many more. exceptional access to some of its key players reveals the inner workings of an organisation telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside the sin, a la carte house part 2 of a 2 part investigation people and power on al jazeera. ah, ah ah

ah gotcha one of the fastest growing nations in the way. i won a needed to open and develop it into national shipping company to become a t middle eastern tough for trade and money. still filling out 3 key areas of filling up from the connecting the world, connecting the future one the cato, ca, to gateway to whoa trade. in part 2 of a special investigation, one, when a visitor western australia is only youth detention center and travels to the remote out town where many of the indigenous inmates come from on out to 0. examining the headline, we can have a political the sense of well, that's because this is, should not be the reason for kill other human investigative journalism location we've gained access to a training can run by

a boy from different corner. i never see no american dream in america. you just feel like a caged animal. things like that. my child didn't go through the program that when your eyes to tennis, if you offer well today on al jazeera, ah, commemorating 20 years since the deadliest attacks on us soil opposed to remember the victims of september, the 11th ceremonies held across the country to market day that change not only the united states, but the world. ah, i'm about this and this is a life from doha also coming up, bearing the scars of the us led war in afghanistan. we hear from people bear whose lives changed forever.