using his extensive contacts and years of experience reporting from mexico, galdos was able to reportinside a fentanyl lab, where he met some of the young men making this deadly drug. these guys are young farmers who grew up in the mountains, and they've seen their grandfathers and their fathers being involved either in the marijuana business or in the opium business. and nowadays, you know, synthetic drugs is the new kid on the block. galdos also met with the sicarios or blades, cartel hit men who guard the shipments and the money, protect the cartel�*s turf from rivals and kill to order. the sicarios, the hit men that i met, all of them were incredibly young. all of them had killed. i spoke with them, and i remember something that they mentioned about how difficult it was to kill the first two times. and they said to me, after the third time, you don't even remember about it. the judges said the report demonstrated incredible access. they not only provided us with a rare insight into the drug trade but also taught us a lot about the immense danger posed by fenta nyl as the united st