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know beyond colombian come can't follow escobar is gone but now there are more cartels processing cocaine in the. country or the gulf cartel is a serious threat to the country it's our duty to fight against this organization devoted way of. how many cannot use it 400 you. tell us we're talking about more than $70000000.00 is going to. colombia to the full of drug known top law ask the country managed to drastically reduce its cocaine production defecting media attention about trunk trafficking on to mexico. on today colombia is once again number one. in the.

it produces even more cocaine than it did in pop out astra bombs time. there are more than 2 tons of cocaine right there. that's a lot of drugs but let me tell you something that is a drop in the ocean because last year alone the rates an all time record in the production of the truck was 1000 tells the colombian police and the military were able to seize around $200.00 or so and that's what's and military records what . do see here. what we are about to get into it's war on drugs but with an intensity the world has never seen before. please. come up.

together with the colombian police we travel to the border bomb region these is the home of become a college town which is responsible for the most drug trafficking in colombia from this impenetrable jungle the can tell controls drug trafficking and justice pablo escobar wants to and from the streets of maintaining. a dome so here in the heart of the traffickers territory are the headquarters for operation command not the bands the name of the police operation whose single goal is destroying the town's town town. of my dear fellow comrades the phase that's beginning mostly a strong and very presence of our forces in the region are in danger. you know you

don't major general fokus leads an elite unit that's been fighting the gulf cartel for 3 years but on my ground this is our biggest operation against a common a organizations are going to have it's bigger than the hunt for the cali cartel and bigger than the hunt for pablo escobar of which and there's one simple reason for that attack on the gulf cartel is a serious threat to the country but i would buy. good. under general manager of august commandos from behind law and cop as units fight side by side with the aim of capturing the contents ringleaders. visited every time you feel tired after a hard day of service look at that photo board countless hours have gone into it. the wall of photographs reminds the commandos of the ghosts they've achieved but

also of a contact leaders who still need to be brought to justice among the latter is the biggest target of colombia's most wanted man. dido antonio. also known as or tom yet the leader of the cantarell. in the hunt for autonomy and his underlings operation i commend has already taken down 86 of the continent's leading figures. now in the middle of the night the commandos are preparing for a new offensive it will also mock the beginning of a new strategy. for starting a new phase in the fight against the gulf cartel the police the army the navy the air force and of course the mediterranean district attorney's office will all be.

really integrated into a. colombian security forces are uniting in a fight against a calm town and they're not just talking team the ringleaders not the members. kind of our forces are not going to sit here as an organization the gulf cartel is involved in everything from coca farming to cocaine production to trafficking. all from the gulf. and it called for it it's our constitutional duty to use all available means to fight this organization not be you know child there is a school board but looking to get money in the future to get a look at all the only. today's goal is to locate who can land and neutralize some of the continent's most

important members the chemist's. the commandos trying to locate cocoa plantations amid the dense jungle. on. a.

this is what they're looking for in the 1st place coca leaves because work wherever you can find coca leaves nearby there should be another at the end of the day you need 200 killers of this to. transform them into one kilo of cocaine based. on the commandos. in the jungle. the drug traffickers use them to transport their coca leaves to the labs. and. the security forces have to move quickly but also consciously. helicopters will have given away their presence that means one of 2 things either the drug

traffickers will flee or they might open fire on the commanders. or. locally. since i can. just up here to go to helicopters

coming in. there right away. this time the cocaine cokes have escaped. the commandos wasted no time in searching the area for some spanks contant got found.

a helicopter crew sponsor house in the jungle nearby the commandos split into 2 groups a group a one approached a house and group b. will set up a surveillance perimeter. play . played. illegal politicos are. good mothers again. those are the

values. well that's our. only goal love crowd are going to want to go back. there were. 'd the one that. said whatever you want about. their. group i am spanked the house group has found a suspect. a little. bigger but where's the gun when i don't have one of the i swear on my daughter's life but where's the rest of the group i'm on my own. and wrap the machete a little out of the way down and leave it. to time off farmer to sit down. girl i just arrived i arrived yesterday with my family doing i don't give me that crap what's this is the cutters from your mom or what i'm ok to stuff you know so you. don't mess with.

the radio and a list of coyotes gave the sauce back to wang as one of the gulf cartel discounts the feds what do you do with those communication codes they forced me to tell you since you are the commandos trying to get some information that could lead them to he's balsams you know who forced you you're the one i don't know that man's name only how did you get that radio in those communication codes if it's if you're a you if you're going to listen we'll go and we'll get it would look very much if. the contact god who refuses to be trying his bosses feet the commandos from sam to contact them . if they're going to talk to them normally let's see what they say. run over from the. i mean you know what

this all food we know what. it is like a lawyer. in a government office on the roof of a. good job i you go 1st what about this and it goes on if you don't you would open the door and overflow. sort of i think you're going to. fly. who was on the over the over the over. but the radio cones go on answered the contact numbers half probably being informed that that go between has been captured likely they caught off the connection to prevent him sounds being triste 5 police. operation results in the destruction of 2 labs and the arrest of

a guy. in the. means. he's just a small cog in the contacts machine but it's still a significant wind because the officers have seized the contents radio.

hat. is the headquarters it's time for the intelligence officials to come to iraq. was a last bad boy. their. agents listen into contact the radio communications lines to the table of contents scenes from the counter. interception brings results intelligence officials get information about one of the local contacts lead us the next step is to interrogate the mandate he tanked.

to how long were you in the organization what was your job. by was there for 9 months all of those as a patrolman you. behaved i guarded the bosses. i looked after the security of the organizational bodies of. informants like this on 5 tell when it comes to tracking down enemy that's constantly on the move all the harder to do sleep in houses or camp. we camped in the mountains he was supposed to me elmo boy you know we were always on the move all over the almost. we never stayed in the same place for long just out is in. the interrogation of the informant is carried out in strict secrecy only a small group of officials know his identity. they

don't want to freak out we need to identify a landmark something to help us find their carry a compliment to reach their camp so yes there's one here. ok what kind of weapons do they have. what it is a k $47.00 s. or what and to see if the. light of the commandos get ready to implement that plan is their goal is to capture one of the local golf cantelli does. it explicitly. hop the helicopter and 2 black home head to the coordinates supplied by the intelligence department.

from the ask the team begins the process of all pinpointing the ringleader and his accomplices. the commandos are observing enemy movements and tell us to stay away from the windows.

the. connoisseur of open fire on con talmadge and hiding in the jungle. that become antos must find the drug traffickers before they have time to skank if. yours are there you. go if they're going to. live if.

if. they got. they got to. read. the commandos song response some songs back on a bunch. of other. things they had. a bit. of that. that that.

plane going to leave it to me. but none of the man i'm about all the ringleader the commandos decide to let them go to move. them to special forces split into groups to continue the chinese i know the ring leader must be close by in. the following darkness will help to contact the members as thanks trying to escape but the commandos bombs for patton let him get away.

after a break we hear news from the other side of the river. that it was happening and. we attacked them. so no one of them was into life. at all if. he was wounded when we arrived there he was treated by one of our paramedics and that he died of my goodness of the you know i sort of authority who is that. one of the people we were after this as well on that account constantly into yes. the commandos say it was machine gun fire from the helicopters that took out but can't tell leda.

they're bringing them here. as. long. as. this. plane has again drug trafficking has taken on life a man who until hours ago was part of the gulf conto leadership is now the latest

victim of the war on drugs. live. felix valencia alias cobra 5 joins the list of cantelli do's who have been killed. in spain in stockholm one after the other his deputies are following the police and

. military are attacking the cartels dropped last understand the statistics clearly show that here are 2 year colombia continues to set new cocaine production records . we travel into metal in the city where it all began this is the place pablo escobar transformed into the global capital of drug trafficking we're going to look at the other side of the war on drugs the wealth of the traffickers we want to find out how it's possible that so much cocaine can be produced despite the government's efforts. our journey leads us to one of the criminal groups currently controlling drug trafficking in may he.

ran from the opulence of all my times drug traffickers now run their business from the poorest areas of the city. it's in one of these neighborhoods that we meet with one of major unions most experienced drug traffickers. you. can buy started my criminal career in 1902. if i worked in labs and took shipments by boat and plane to mexico. this is the way my job i'll do it until i die. the town i work to closely with pablo escobar himself no one knows better than he drug trafficking has developed in colombia over the last

few decades. what happened off the top now as confounds foam king who was he success of course for the book was born pablo escobar fell the cartel here was led by a group called lot of siena you know but it's winding down now because these days there's really only small time dealing being done here. c n n they've trafficking isn't as big here anymore where in colombia has it moved to get. if you want to work you have to go into the jungle to gone are the days when you could have your drug lab in the city which it's much harder because it's monitored much more strict laser so everyone goes into the jungle but there was there were like the call of contacts yes but they've been relentlessly attacked or years now there are more and more small cartels and people are learning the trade everyone has a small lab and they get 10200 or maybe a 1000 kilos out of it depending on where they are you know well that's why there's more production it's a whole lot of small amounts

a little bit because there are more people producing it was the problem so the gulf con town doesn't control the drug trafficking anymore. well there are lots of groups now and each has its own area where we'll know one oversteps the boundary into another group's area or grow. they have a group saunters be called powerful but there are many more of that which of mass or items would look everyone in the cocaine trade is growing in processing then we transported to mexico border with the mexicans pay and we process it and transported there over the escobar used to control the drug trafficking route or woman or girl but now the mexican stole it one who didn't move so fast so the mexican is not the ones who do the ordering from them and i mean that's one of my car so yes and in large quantities they export it to the u.s. as those who do. the cocaine business has adopted while the government's crackdown. on the gulf cartel

hundreds of new gangs have taken its place and it's all now driven by mexican gangs who are the ones buying colombian cocaine. we want to follow the trial of colombian cocaine as it makes its way north just like production transportation has fragmented it's done in several stages traffickers trying to evade the old charges my 1st transporting into neighboring countries from that the cocaine reaches mexican cartels the new overlord some of the trade one of them is among the biggest in the world this in a lower cartel. through our contacts we meet with felipe or a cartel member in charge of supervising the arrival of

a cocaine shipment. where away heading. to the coast. the oath to where the merchandise will be delivered. what kind of merchandise. cokehead how much. 40400 kilos. it comes from colombia it travels across central america little by little we receive it here and send a lower prepare it and send it to the us or the. let's play with numbers a little bit just to understand a word to our what we're about to witness. 400 killers all folk a here is you know

a war of around. a. $1000000000.00 bats if they reach the states and they are sold in the streets talking about more than simply $1000000.00. here and now. a spare. we wait for the boat with the merchandise.

the traffic has confirmed the time and place of getting leverage. off it. was a little bit. about is on its way to contact the man prepare the vehicle so they can load the full 100 kilos of cocaine. if. everything has to be unloaded and reloaded as quickly as possible. assigned to great service is on expected. to get. the 400 kilos of cocaine arrive in about some small it seems more likely to be used by a fisherman than buying drug traffickers. poncy

unloading is complete the merchandise is checked. the traffic is fine to see on time we're expecting a mock up of a trustworthy tanami and produces. the flow. of the cargo. not only trained is complete in less than full name so.

well just a scan up. for goes to a safe house. it stays there for a while and they were parent to be dispatched to the us exactly. cocaine is dangerous to hold on to follow the longer a con town keeps it in one place the higher the risk of being discovered by all starters or attacked by a rival gang. or your church or. merchandise worth an estimated $70000000.00 is a powerful new book that's why safe houses. these are so important.

that. we arrive at a small building in the middle of nowhere the hiding place for the cocaine. and. the floor what happens next what you do with it. goes away back again

why. sometimes it travels by sea so that way it's better protected. from a watermelon yes. with every step the value of the cocaine can stop so the traffickers combi to cam. so this is ready to go to the us yes. the colombian cocaine is now safely packed and ready for the last stage of its journey. from sin a lot to the united states. days later phillipa town says the preparations are complete. 100 of the 400 kilos of cocaine in a safe ounce are bound to be dispatched by saying. along

the way we come across a vehicle by the side of the road. or the side of the bus. that of the truck. after we get in we discover that this cock is carrying the trunks.

of all that don't touch anything so there won't be any traces i haven't touched anything. do you mean because of thing that i just said oh. yes. the plan is done now the contango into a budget that will take it to the u.s. border by the heavy rain is complicating matters. on the point can't get down there because of the water so we're going to go somewhere else there's been too much rain a world of the in. the traffic as must improvise a solution the kind of cane has to be dispatched without a lag. on the number of the phone calls we have a big boat and it can pull up here. so we're bringing

a smaller boat and it also you know loaded. some to the small abouts and then take it down to the bigger one yes it's 2 kilometers away but it's not possible to bring it in here with me. but the new plan forces the traffickers to leave an area that's under them control. wants to situation in this area is that police or military. yes the army but we have to find a solution. that would happen if the army came what would we do about it. we'd run.

we arrive at the meeting spot. and everything goes like clockwork. the smaller biotech is just arrived and the traffickers begin loading the campaign . but it. would be good. if. it. were.

the operation is complete another $100.00 kilos of colombian cocaine are on their way to the u.s. . it's a sign of how the trafficking business has adapted in order to survive. how the magazine cartel has been replaced by the gulf cartel and hundreds of smaller successes prepared to meet an incessant demand. maxa can contact played a crucial role in this transformation colombia still produces cocaine and the us still consumes it but increasingly mexico is facilitating the delivery. it's a new order but one that follows the oem simple laws of supply and demand and it

continues to exact opposite sign human cost the lives of traffickers drug users and those who fight against the illegal drug trade. month without a sign of life. the crew of 2 italian fishing boats. disappeared after a clash with the libyan militia. they were off to sea to earn a living and got dragged into a power struggle which is about a lot more than just filling the fishing nets some goods are. 90 minutes d.w.

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