How Sinaloa Became Mexico’s Biggest Cartel | The War on Drugs

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  • Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
  • 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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  • @VICE
    @VICE  6 місяців тому +13

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  • @luxuryhub1323
    @luxuryhub1323 Рік тому +2767

    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.

    • @djevelhelvete
      @djevelhelvete Рік тому +90

      You are absolutely right and it’s so so sad.

    • @JayP7.62
      @JayP7.62 Рік тому +207

      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.

    • @prepper-sq9yj
      @prepper-sq9yj Рік тому +43

      Mass hypnosis

    • @valporkins4453
      @valporkins4453 Рік тому +1

      Mass psychosis

    • @prepper-sq9yj
      @prepper-sq9yj Рік тому +6

      @@valporkins4453 facts

  • @juanfa98
    @juanfa98 Рік тому +2115

    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.

    • @edwardggarcia7705
      @edwardggarcia7705 Рік тому +197

      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

    • @JM-mj9hx
      @JM-mj9hx Рік тому +261

      @@edwardggarcia7705 it’s scary that they have the firepower to back up such a threat.

    • @VR46314
      @VR46314 Рік тому +89

      Cartel issued a war statement too which they have done before where it becomes a warzone unless they released him

    • @Rand_al_Thor372
      @Rand_al_Thor372 Рік тому +41

      Definitely a G move. You know you're protected when...

    • @Born2DoubleUp
      @Born2DoubleUp Рік тому +98

      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 😂

  • @AwokenEntertainment
    @AwokenEntertainment Рік тому +695

    seeing Vice dive back into this style of content gives me hope..

    • @Basedapple
      @Basedapple Рік тому

      @Marcell Uche the FBI is definitely watching your ass.

    • @ARSHDEEP-bx2sj
      @ARSHDEEP-bx2sj Рік тому +14

      Even though they got the illustrators like this guy, I don’t like this guy’s way of explaining

    • @newbluerugby
      @newbluerugby Рік тому +4

      1 of 2 comments are shadow banned

    • @oldironsides4107
      @oldironsides4107 Рік тому

      The guy has flames visibly shooting from his ass.
      The guys horriblw at this b

    • @newbluerugby
      @newbluerugby Рік тому +1

      @@oldironsides4107 your comment is shadow banned too lol. Side bar, were you in the Army or Marines?

  • @velttokakka
    @velttokakka Рік тому +69

    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.

    • @DarkZerol
      @DarkZerol Рік тому +4

      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.

    • @plutoplexus8656
      @plutoplexus8656 7 місяців тому

      Wow that’s sad😢😮

    • @notnot8727
      @notnot8727 4 місяці тому

      Saludd

  • @davidbridge5652
    @davidbridge5652 Рік тому +1896

    I feel sorry for the majority of genuinely good people in Mexico who are caught in the crossfire.

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Рік тому +16

      Who said they're any different?

    • @tontolinification
      @tontolinification Рік тому +97

      Es culpa de los gringos

    • @Coconut____________214
      @Coconut____________214 Рік тому +8

      @Howard how?

    • @anon681
      @anon681 Рік тому +23

      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

    • @anon681
      @anon681 Рік тому +62

      @Howard drgs go up north…. Guns and money goes down south. Mexico doesn’t manufacture guns

  • @axem.8338
    @axem.8338 Рік тому +476

    God I love these old styled Vice documentaries that you guys are doing again. Thank you!!

    • @GratDuForloradeArgumentet
      @GratDuForloradeArgumentet Рік тому +19

      This is not old style. Old style would be being on the ground, not talking about it in a video my friend.

    • @jus_sanguinis
      @jus_sanguinis Рік тому

      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

    • @YourFriendWithACamera
      @YourFriendWithACamera Рік тому

      @@GratDuForloradeArgumentet Very true

  • @mattgraver3604
    @mattgraver3604 Рік тому +746

    We need more cartel documentaries from Vice!!!

    • @frenchbeluga7055
      @frenchbeluga7055 Рік тому

      No they spread mostly propaganda and a more bs and they don’t cover other sources that are important.

    • @mattgraver3604
      @mattgraver3604 Рік тому +4

      @@frenchbeluga7055 Kindly direct me to those other sources I can check out

    • @frenchbeluga7055
      @frenchbeluga7055 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @MS-tc2fs
      @MS-tc2fs Рік тому +1

      🍏C I A nurtured the cartels in the 1970s/1980s, they still likely run the trade now.

    • @puppetmaster706
      @puppetmaster706 Рік тому

      Agreed as you can see that’s where you guys get the most views and more subs!!!

  • @officialkolade
    @officialkolade Рік тому +140

    The 'we like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs' at the end of these Vice documentaries always gets me 😂😂

    • @tenfold7493
      @tenfold7493 Рік тому +7

      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 🙄

    • @BIGGUCCISEB
      @BIGGUCCISEB Рік тому +11

      @@tenfold7493 its been going on since the 70s with no chance of ending time soon so yeah drugs won

    • @tenfold7493
      @tenfold7493 Рік тому

      @@BIGGUCCISEB stop liking your own comments in a vain attempt to re enforce your mute point.

  • @mayanaztec6440
    @mayanaztec6440 Рік тому +630

    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.

    • @juanocampo2262
      @juanocampo2262 Рік тому +103

      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

    • @the_local_bigamist
      @the_local_bigamist Рік тому +69

      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.

    • @biggboi1025
      @biggboi1025 Рік тому +202

      @@the_local_bigamist Isn't that what the american government does 😆

    • @mayanaztec6440
      @mayanaztec6440 Рік тому +89

      @@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.

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому

      @@mayanaztec6440 so the cartels leave you alone and your peeps alone but gun down woman and children from a Mormon community?

  • @sidsharma6002
    @sidsharma6002 Рік тому +4

    I was waiting for this from so long. Thanks Vice.

  • @xxisawthug
    @xxisawthug Рік тому +11

    Amazing documentary Vice you did it again!

  • @saulgarcia5114
    @saulgarcia5114 Рік тому +189

    I want to see a documentary which talks about the DEA's involvement in the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel.

    • @zakmurtha1095
      @zakmurtha1095 Рік тому +33

      Narcos and narcos Mexico on Netflix

    • @ambrizfer7898
      @ambrizfer7898 Рік тому +1

      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

    • @user-bi2me1kj7p
      @user-bi2me1kj7p Рік тому +11

      Not to mention the currently involvement now

    • @TJ-kl1vj
      @TJ-kl1vj Рік тому

      We'll look for those documentaries then

    • @xnervemusic
      @xnervemusic Рік тому

      Correct Narcos and Narcos Mexico has already covered that

  • @JasonDunn34
    @JasonDunn34 Рік тому +4

    Great report Jamie, keep them coming!

  • @BhodeCig
    @BhodeCig Рік тому +11

    Vice really got some good content on UA-cam, wouldn't expect media to try this hard.

  • @jackchop1576
    @jackchop1576 Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @jessisanchez8150
    @jessisanchez8150 Рік тому +129

    If you do your research, most of the leaders in the 70's-80's who branched out came from Sinaloa.

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому +11

      @@MZ95 do you have a recommendation of a book/author to help educate myself on the subject?

    • @45kingofkings
      @45kingofkings Рік тому +14

      @@User-54631 lmk if he/she replies because that’s the first time I heard of that lmao 😂

    • @richieg8067
      @richieg8067 Рік тому +3

      @@45kingofkings He is just saying what he heard from Luis Chaparro on his recent episode on the Koncrete podcast

    • @cristocool3356
      @cristocool3356 Рік тому +2

      @@User-54631 “Narcos Mexico” on Netflix does a good job.

    • @Leveezy
      @Leveezy Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/XGttt4vBB0s/v-deo.html

  • @JohanDanielAlvarezSanchez
    @JohanDanielAlvarezSanchez Рік тому +294

    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.

    • @khalilahd.
      @khalilahd. Рік тому +9

      This is so heartbreaking. I’m sorry 🥺

    • @kodak_blackglee
      @kodak_blackglee Рік тому +5

      now they're thinking about legalizing cocaine

    • @joaquinflores3547
      @joaquinflores3547 Рік тому +23

      the war on drugs was never real

    • @keaton9003
      @keaton9003 Рік тому +6

      It’s on a lot bigger scale and is a lot worse and will continue to get worse

    • @dadominos1078
      @dadominos1078 Рік тому +26

      @@kodak_blackglee good, only way to stop the war on drugs

  • @ScottishGoldHunter
    @ScottishGoldHunter Рік тому +357

    Feel sorry for the kids that get effectively forced into the cartels with only one way to get out☠️

    • @carlosa164
      @carlosa164 Рік тому +47

      Sinaloa cartel doesn’t force no one to join them it’s all voluntarily

    • @rosegold-beats
      @rosegold-beats Рік тому +24

      They literally want to join

    • @EdwinSalgado999
      @EdwinSalgado999 Рік тому +32

      They not forced man. Just gotta mind your business and not get into wrong crowd the US media be exaggerating at times

    • @galacthicc693
      @galacthicc693 Рік тому +8

      @@carlosa164 I think he means about those who grow up in poorer areas with no other ways to make good money

    • @omarflores6470
      @omarflores6470 Рік тому

      @@galacthicc693 then you go do something else go hunt

  • @user-qc3ki3nf4s
    @user-qc3ki3nf4s Рік тому +9

    Back to the old vice type of videos, Feels Good Man 🤙🏽❤️

  • @user-rp5iq8gb2r
    @user-rp5iq8gb2r 5 місяців тому

    seeing Vice dive back into this style of content gives me hope... We need more cartel documentaries from Vice!!!.

  • @trj1442
    @trj1442 Рік тому +22

    Another excellent Vice episode. Thankyou.

  • @dcjkl8088
    @dcjkl8088 Рік тому +99

    Men I love these cartel videos that Vice is making

  • @Indi.a.B33ger.Viru.s.Nation
    @Indi.a.B33ger.Viru.s.Nation Рік тому +2

    Good thing fentynal is taking care of the world's drug issues.
    Great work CcP. The only ones to truly fight against all drugs.

  • @hassann.mugisha6084
    @hassann.mugisha6084 Рік тому +7

    This guy should make his own channel, he's good at this

  • @markgonsalves
    @markgonsalves Рік тому +88

    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.

    • @sachi6803
      @sachi6803 11 місяців тому +5

      Disturbing

    • @joselara371
      @joselara371 10 місяців тому

      Are the gangs in India similar to gangs in California like Chicano gangs

    • @Bandhilkifamily
      @Bandhilkifamily 10 місяців тому +1

      @@joselara371 no, they are underground or arrested. they can't do anything to common people otherwise they will get encountered by police

    • @Stevehboy
      @Stevehboy 9 місяців тому

      @@joselara371there more violent I know that

    • @joselara371
      @joselara371 9 місяців тому

      @@Stevehboy Indian gangs are more violent or US gangs?

  • @camschmidt5476
    @camschmidt5476 Рік тому +7

    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

  • @justinabraham7291
    @justinabraham7291 Рік тому +2

    Great episode 👏

  • @Crazy--Clown
    @Crazy--Clown Рік тому +1

    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

  • @Whydoweneedthis744
    @Whydoweneedthis744 Рік тому +6

    @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?

  • @timothinking9855
    @timothinking9855 Рік тому +22

    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...

    • @icallmy12gnot12
      @icallmy12gnot12 Рік тому +3

      Bro literally had relations w lil girls

    • @timothinking9855
      @timothinking9855 Рік тому +2

      @@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.

    • @timothinking9855
      @timothinking9855 Рік тому

      @@icallmy12gnot12 ua-cam.com/video/fyUnGgMLpVk/v-deo.html

  • @franciscoo2766
    @franciscoo2766 Рік тому

    LOVE THE CONTENT

  • @jody2swole
    @jody2swole Рік тому +1

    Thank you vice 🙏🏼🙌🏼

  • @sidstovell2177
    @sidstovell2177 Рік тому +22

    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.

  • @yournewstepdad6_68
    @yournewstepdad6_68 Рік тому +12

    It’s an unending cycle!

  • @francojalbuena4196
    @francojalbuena4196 10 місяців тому +1

    Fine good video keep it up.

  • @deathisinevitable7178
    @deathisinevitable7178 Рік тому +1

    Love this series

  • @Eliza_isapartypooper360
    @Eliza_isapartypooper360 8 місяців тому +8

    I’m from Sinaloa I’m so disappointed 😔 what has this world become this world was made for joy not this

  • @JM-mj9hx
    @JM-mj9hx Рік тому +275

    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

    • @rsking89
      @rsking89 Рік тому +33

      I remember watching a narco video like that as a teen as well. Took me a while to get over the images and sounds.

    • @KyriToe
      @KyriToe Рік тому

      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 🤔

    • @damiantirado9616
      @damiantirado9616 Рік тому +2

      I mean they tortured people right?

    • @neoxyte
      @neoxyte Рік тому

      @@damiantirado9616 skinning people alive. Feeding them their own organs. Taking their fingernails off one by one. Killing innocent family members too.

    • @steve.k4735
      @steve.k4735 Рік тому +51

      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

  • @deletdis6173
    @deletdis6173 Рік тому

    Finally, a Vice video about vice.
    Just like the olden days.

  • @shwetapandey3778
    @shwetapandey3778 Рік тому +157

    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..

    • @the_local_bigamist
      @the_local_bigamist Рік тому

      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.

    • @Shinkajo
      @Shinkajo Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @slowmojo9355
      @slowmojo9355 Рік тому +12

      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💃

    • @kamranrowshandel6395
      @kamranrowshandel6395 Рік тому +2

      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

    • @saturationstation1446
      @saturationstation1446 Рік тому

      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

  • @GratDuForloradeArgumentet
    @GratDuForloradeArgumentet Рік тому +32

    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.

    • @getschwifty9531
      @getschwifty9531 4 місяці тому

      💯!
      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.

  • @I_am_somebody_1234
    @I_am_somebody_1234 Рік тому +6

    The war on drugs show is probably one of the few good shows vice has left

  • @shelbyorphanage9199
    @shelbyorphanage9199 Рік тому +4

    Prayers and condolences

  • @mautorres2021
    @mautorres2021 Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @sibindas8022
    @sibindas8022 Рік тому +15

    World's most notorious and dangerous... The Sinaloa cartel ❌ was waiting for this episode for a while 🙌

    • @GratDuForloradeArgumentet
      @GratDuForloradeArgumentet Рік тому

      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.

  • @kyb7795
    @kyb7795 Рік тому

    Vice is killing it with these pieces

  • @reggiefurlow1
    @reggiefurlow1 Рік тому

    I really really like the mini docs

  • @Leogx13
    @Leogx13 Рік тому +78

    Next video How the DEA became the biggest cartel in the world

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому +2

      I’m very interested, do you know of any books/ authors to educate myself in this subject?

    • @valeriaismeraigarciaadame
      @valeriaismeraigarciaadame Рік тому +2

      You mean the CIA and Us government

    • @Mmmmgood317
      @Mmmmgood317 Рік тому +1

      With the cia and feds… they are the worst the world has ever seen

    • @valeriaismeraigarciaadame
      @valeriaismeraigarciaadame Рік тому

      @@Mmmmgood317 the worst they pretend to be good and christian

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому

      @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 UA-cam more books.

  • @CarlitosWay420
    @CarlitosWay420 Рік тому +45

    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

    • @CarlitosWay420
      @CarlitosWay420 Рік тому +4

      @@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

    • @Toroidalzpe
      @Toroidalzpe Рік тому

      The US and local governments have funded the cartels from the start, as far back as project underworld during WW2

    • @omniowl3515
      @omniowl3515 Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @chamodelalima8986
      @chamodelalima8986 Рік тому

      lol no one knows chavó Félix n em

    • @thepeopleschampion2088
      @thepeopleschampion2088 Рік тому

      @@chamodelalima8986 That’s the homies

  • @AEFarnam
    @AEFarnam Рік тому +7

    The question the government never asks: is all this collateral damage violence murder incarceration and systemic poverty worth drugs being illegal?

  • @Fighthead75
    @Fighthead75 Рік тому

    Very cool piece

  • @mphommopi3728
    @mphommopi3728 Рік тому +17

    The war on drugs will never be won.

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe Рік тому +5

      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

    • @damiantirado9616
      @damiantirado9616 Рік тому +2

      If it’s legalized it will be won

    • @mphommopi3728
      @mphommopi3728 Рік тому

      @Bringthephunk you right about that

  • @cenotaphilia
    @cenotaphilia Рік тому +72

    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?

    • @derederekat9051
      @derederekat9051 Рік тому +29

      it's called DEA collaborators, they are making a pretty penny out of it, more than a prohibition it's a monopoly.

    • @Zach-vh1fv
      @Zach-vh1fv Рік тому +13

      @@MZ95 what an ignorant statement

    • @ktenko3966
      @ktenko3966 Рік тому +6

      @@Zach-vh1fv but its TRUE. Who would sell? Bloods And crips they sell

    • @mindfulnessorganix1588
      @mindfulnessorganix1588 Рік тому +16

      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

    • @BeeRaNature
      @BeeRaNature Рік тому +2

      GREAT QUESTION 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @banerjeesiddharth05
    @banerjeesiddharth05 Рік тому

    Nice video

  • @vvolfbelorven7084
    @vvolfbelorven7084 Рік тому

    8:01 great observation. The Cartels are excellent Machiavellian entities. Using the tools at their disposal WHEN and WHERE necessary, including violence

  • @hotsauceislethal9430
    @hotsauceislethal9430 Рік тому +22

    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

  • @alexx_windycitychi558
    @alexx_windycitychi558 Рік тому +9

    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

  • @AndrxwAndrxw
    @AndrxwAndrxw Рік тому +1

    itd be nice to see a video focused on how violence developed in key state Nuevo León

  • @ACT1O1
    @ACT1O1 Рік тому +4

    Someone has to do it. This is life, you take the good with the bad.

  • @khalilahd.
    @khalilahd. Рік тому +29

    It’s crazy how this is developing 🥺

    • @zoeplsno
      @zoeplsno Рік тому

      OMG YOU'RE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE

    • @louieDsypo
      @louieDsypo Рік тому +4

      mamacita

    • @louieDsypo
      @louieDsypo Рік тому

      @@zoeplsno she be watching same videos we do

    • @zoeplsno
      @zoeplsno Рік тому

      @@louieDsypo nah its kinda sus how her comments r EVERYWHERE 💀

    • @louieDsypo
      @louieDsypo Рік тому

      @@zoeplsno idk i comment on almost all the videos i watch .. except i get no likes and nobody recognices me

  • @SEDavo
    @SEDavo Рік тому +61

    Sinaloa is no longer an actual single entity it’s split up into many different factions who all oppose eachother for the most part.

    • @frankmurillo422
      @frankmurillo422 Рік тому +6

      It was never a single entity, but was always lead by el mayo

    • @shrimpandsilver5010
      @shrimpandsilver5010 Рік тому +5

      @@frankmurillo422 if it was unified to the point that it was run by one guy, I'd say it's a single entity

    • @frankmurillo422
      @frankmurillo422 Рік тому +5

      @@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

    • @livsnjutaresverige3802
      @livsnjutaresverige3802 Рік тому +5

      @@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

    • @mansamusa8964
      @mansamusa8964 Рік тому

      @@livsnjutaresverige3802 el mayo was never number 1 😂 number 1 rat maybe

  • @kedox6856
    @kedox6856 Рік тому

    Pls More!!!

  • @MikeToG___
    @MikeToG___ Рік тому +1

    Can yall go next to the Guadalajara zone that would be awesome

  • @User-54631
    @User-54631 Рік тому +15

    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.

    • @JJ-fo7zj
      @JJ-fo7zj Рік тому +4

      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

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @Johannesf
      @Johannesf Рік тому +3

      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.

    • @JJ-fo7zj
      @JJ-fo7zj Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @JJ-fo7zj
      @JJ-fo7zj Рік тому +1

      @@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

  • @mentalhell4846
    @mentalhell4846 Рік тому +13

    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.

  • @easylogy4825
    @easylogy4825 Рік тому +2

    The Drug business is unbelievably brutal 🤕.... Only those who saw the crime knows it 🤕

  • @lordTenderTv
    @lordTenderTv Рік тому

    Good job

  • @Lolp821
    @Lolp821 Рік тому +118

    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.

    • @Jason-im3pz
      @Jason-im3pz Рік тому +8

      Was that the guy they shot over a hundred times outside a shop?

    • @Lolp821
      @Lolp821 Рік тому +4

      @@Jason-im3pz Possibly, if I remember there were two of them with automatic weapons.

    • @PackerAholic
      @PackerAholic Рік тому

      Eso si

    • @chilliewhk
      @chilliewhk Рік тому

      I remember seeing that on the news

  • @tabletalcatel1911
    @tabletalcatel1911 Рік тому +3

    You should check out "world's most wanted ep 1 "el mayo " one of Mexico's underground oligarch...

  • @facto901
    @facto901 Рік тому +2

    Release the man. We need new episode on Netflix!

    • @remy_sporesoninstagramsell456
      @remy_sporesoninstagramsell456 Рік тому +1

      👆👆Look up the handle he ships swiftly, mushrooms,DMT,edible, psychedelic, chocolate bars,acid etc surest plug🔌🥶💥💊🚢🍄

  • @philipsaviour3176
    @philipsaviour3176 Рік тому

    What is the initial BGM. It's Great!!!!

  • @brianmcintyre503
    @brianmcintyre503 Рік тому +10

    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

    • @asad-kc8zf
      @asad-kc8zf Рік тому +3

      Some CEO’s are as bad a criminal as the drug cartels. 😊

    • @evxl-
      @evxl- Рік тому

      Taking a note from Augustus.
      You don't want the limelight.

  • @ortegonadam
    @ortegonadam Рік тому +8

    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.

    • @asad-kc8zf
      @asad-kc8zf Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @chickenTeriyakiboy
    @chickenTeriyakiboy Рік тому

    ahhh our weekly cartel video from vice

  • @haithamjuma98
    @haithamjuma98 Рік тому +6

    “This is only happens in movies”
    El chapo: hold my beer..

  • @LudiCrust.
    @LudiCrust. Рік тому +8

    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.

  • @mikkojaatinen4508
    @mikkojaatinen4508 Рік тому +9

    Thanks for the advanced journalism mr! War on drugs seems to work as fine as covid policies.

  • @haggencharman
    @haggencharman Рік тому

    4:20 that small boat may contain more profit than the tanker vessel behind LOL

  • @olefella7561
    @olefella7561 Рік тому +4

    The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by VICE is truly a gift. 🤚

  • @elmango7350
    @elmango7350 10 місяців тому +3

    They haven't seen the madness CJNG and Los Zetas left behind in this country, they need to make a documentary about that.

  • @enriquehuerta2789
    @enriquehuerta2789 Рік тому +5

    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.

    • @Rdizzle512
      @Rdizzle512 5 місяців тому +1

      Still a narcostate

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle Рік тому +1

    "Let's use the take where you sounded bored."
    "We only did one take."

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @josephsmith3908
    @josephsmith3908 Рік тому +4

    The Sinaloa federation is so compartmentalized that it's almost impossible to stop

  • @josephstory6461
    @josephstory6461 Рік тому +15

    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

    • @stayhome551
      @stayhome551 Рік тому +2

      Could have just called it a hydra, homie. Lol

    • @ambrizfer7898
      @ambrizfer7898 Рік тому

      The real leader of the sinaloa cartel has never been arrested

  • @gabilegend6354
    @gabilegend6354 Рік тому

    Bro the hype i feel waiting for this particular dude from vice to begin his thing...

  • @javierpenaloza19
    @javierpenaloza19 Рік тому +2

    The war on drugs will never end.

  • @righteousbyfaithinChrist
    @righteousbyfaithinChrist Рік тому +3

    How tragic that these individuals used their gifts and talents to destroy rather than revitalize Mexico.

  • @user-nq8tr1hw3w
    @user-nq8tr1hw3w Рік тому +9

    Mayo and Chapo were like Birdman and Slim of the dope game.

  • @isaacmzt5232
    @isaacmzt5232 Рік тому +2

    Title of this video should be “How the Sinaloa Cartel became the USA’s favourite illegal drug purveyor” Supply and demand!,

  • @Matt24.
    @Matt24. Рік тому +2

    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

  • @Randomcrapname80
    @Randomcrapname80 Рік тому +12

    The rule of law is a thin sheet of glass marked "if you have the power break as needed"

  • @billiondollardan
    @billiondollardan Рік тому +3

    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."

  • @hansolowe19
    @hansolowe19 Рік тому

    Fascinating. 👍

    • @visitmyco_cross1onig76
      @visitmyco_cross1onig76 Рік тому

      This is unrelated but check out the handle on my name above👆. He got shrooms, dmt, lsd, bars, dmt, vapepens,xanax,gummies,lsd, salvia, mdma,ketamines, edibles, etc.and ships swiftly.

  • @Aday442
    @Aday442 Рік тому +1

    Extremely smart group. Keep it up fellas

  • @mautorres2021
    @mautorres2021 Рік тому +6

    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.

  • @ants7279
    @ants7279 Рік тому +3

    El chapo looks like every Mexican persons dad in fact I'm going as my dad for Halloween this year.

  • @nippongakki
    @nippongakki Рік тому +2

    man I miss old vice videos these recap things arent the same

  • @reeceetzerza8975
    @reeceetzerza8975 5 місяців тому

    The best vice reporter