The cash flowing outside of America without no trade coming back that was taxable was a real problem we had to recuperate that money someway poeple where doing drugs anyway and if there is no drug they will vind something else and nobody cares bud money flowing out at that speed was a real facking reason to start a war
So at the end of the day the US government was buying and selling drugs and then shook down the main man for cold hard cash.Whats new? They have been doing this for decades and will continue to do it.
US to Don Lucho: "You can do 8 years in jail and then go back to business, no worries. But could we please have some of your money - not all of it of course, how rude would that be? - so we can continue to fund our many pointless agencies, and my make-work job in particular? We feel like our mangement of the drug trade entitles us to a pecentage, ya know?" Don Lucho to US: "No problem, thanks guys." And it goes on and on and on.
@@AfriCoinerArgentine cops find $50m in a run down apartment and just turn it over...oh wait maybe it was $75m. Then US agents put most of it into a sealed bag and throw it into their carry on...that they don't get checked on. Thanks for paying our salaries and bonuses Lucho! See you again in ten years.
I am sickened by the profound arrogance of the US government. The demand comes from America. But the US government is focused on the supply. Before removing a splinter from the supplier's eye, try removing the log from the demand side.
This must be an old docu because the story that followed his release is that he was assassinated alongside one of his lawyers, in Bogota, on July 16, 2021. You know how they say in the underworld, "snitches end up in ditches".
He gave up $111 million + but earnt $1 billion annual and got ten years thats mental,…… he’s out now,… with billions I’d do ten year for that much dollar easssssy
America does not really care for thats one of the ways the usa treasury gets all those billions for wars,so let them with their drugs for 10 yrs and more so when we get them we will reap billions,its a trick game ppl.
It doesn't actually work like that, the money spent on enforcing prohibition is irrelevant, simple fact is supply & demand keeps the price fixed for the end user, that never changes. All drugs have a minimum viable dosage & drug dealers know exactly what that dosage is, on the supply side the actual growers, get paid very well for a subsistence crop grower. The vast profits come from the economies of scale by consolidating the supply chain, because the vast majority of drug users never have enough money to pay more. Minimum Viable dose sees to that, Drug Dealers can't put up the end user price, if they want a captive (Addicted) market because the end user need to be able to pay for that dose.
On the morning of July 16 2021 Luis Agustín Caicedo Velandia, alias “Don Lucho,” was shot dead by two gunmen in Teusaquillo, a district in the north of the Colombian capital, this documentary was made in 2020.
Wish we had investigators like these in SA with the illicit drug; gold and rhino trade whilst the country is riddled with crime; an average of 85 citizens being murdered; corrupt government; security forces and open borders; ports and airports; even phillipinos now own a piece of one of our ports😢😢😢😢we live in a gangster state😢😢😢
I do not understand why hardly anyone is aware that the best solution is "not to use the stuff!". That is, if no one buys it, then there is no demand. No demand= No problem.
They took control of 175 million in drugs ?. lol. ffs . That isn't even an hours worth of trade world wide . I have seen bigger shipments stopped in a British bust . The British trade alone is about 15 billion annually . The drug war was lost decades ago .
They never stopped or made the drug trafficking any different or dented the drug industry in anyway. So what’s the point of doing it the only way to stop drugs is to stop people taking them by introducing methods by educating them from the addiction if taking drugs.
Corrupt government officials are the biggest prison profiteers. The war on drugs keeps private prison cells full for max shareholder profits each quarter!
Wow Amazing Always been like this !! Tones and tones of hash comes here but never ever in 50 years have they got the big guys !!biggest players has always stayed under the radar or works with the radar !!
Used this system for years when I was at it difference was we used certain passwords to access drafts still works today just change passwords every time you use it
I'll say, write in a certain normal partern and change partern when being caught to alert others. Simple. Should be so little that the authority won't notice the change.....could be avoid fullstop at the end, don't begin with caps.....anything
It is extremely difficult to shut down the supply of the equation because the supply source is outside the US territorial boundary and beyond the control of US government. The USA needs to fight the war on drugs on both fronts (demand and supply). You can understand this from simple principles of micro economics ( market forces of demandand supply)- the higher the demand the higher the suppl due to high profit, and the lower the demand the lower the supply due to low profit.
CIA will never allow anyone to interfere with their drug supply business. Drug trade will never stop, because the World's elite benefit from all the profits and they allow safe passage for important drug lords. This guy is small fry.
The Big Atvantage of such Operation ,that Future Drug Pins will always have to Look around the Shoulder if the Police is not Behind Them. It must be a Terible Life always watching out for the Police. all the Money does not make the Paranoia go away.
The war, if one could call it that ,has to be first and foremost on the side of tackling the demand side for any kind of stemming the aspect of supply,after all that is the only driving element of the whole sordid saga!✌️
Who invented drugs market so huge scale never seen before ? CIA .Where Usa are the drugs market goes follow . How much money were given under the table to agents for pretty careing him ? ...The answer knows the wind ...
so basicly you arrested the guy to take his money not to stop drug trade.
they hate it when u win
The cash flowing outside of America without no trade coming back that was taxable was a real problem we had to recuperate that money someway poeple where doing drugs anyway and if there is no drug they will vind something else and nobody cares bud money flowing out at that speed was a real facking reason to start a war
Exactly !
So at the end of the day the US government was buying and selling drugs and then shook down the main man for cold hard cash.Whats new? They have been doing this for decades and will continue to do it.
Hhhhh 100/100 true 😂
These agents talk as if their government is not THE DRUG TRAFFICKER
Spot on
So dam true ..
Governments dont like competition.
Because its their boss...but they know whats what....
They call stealing from the cartels siezing the drugs and cash
US to Don Lucho: "You can do 8 years in jail and then go back to business, no worries. But could we please have some of your money - not all of it of course, how rude would that be? - so we can continue to fund our many pointless agencies, and my make-work job in particular? We feel like our mangement of the drug trade entitles us to a pecentage, ya know?"
Don Lucho to US: "No problem, thanks guys."
And it goes on and on and on.
nailed it. I am sure the agents themselves got some stacks also
@@AfriCoinerArgentine cops find $50m in a run down apartment and just turn it over...oh wait maybe it was $75m. Then US agents put most of it into a sealed bag and throw it into their carry on...that they don't get checked on. Thanks for paying our salaries and bonuses Lucho! See you again in ten years.
Let's not forget about the $175M worth of d r u g s they intercepted during their undercover activity. Smh
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Thats literally all it is. Give us our cut and we’ll even help you.
I am sickened by the profound arrogance of the US government. The demand comes from America. But the US government is focused on the supply. Before removing a splinter from the supplier's eye, try removing the log from the demand side.
Because it wants it for itself😂
This doesn't make any sense.. it is much easier to shut down the supply than to try to shut down the demand
@@Graham-luckyweeeell obviously bòth are NOT easy or it would have been done....unless too many palms have been greased...witch is probably the case😂
Interesting question I wonder what would happen if the us introduced Asian type of sentencing for all forms of drug possession across the board.
@@Graham-lucky For direct evidence of how easy it is, see the War on Drugs.
Max now runs a hipster cafe, drives a Tesla and invested in tequila flavored edibles.
The Government does not like competition.
Exactly
factoid ask Nicholas Cage
Don't like anyone smarter than them
This must be an old docu because the story that followed his release is that he was assassinated alongside one of his lawyers, in Bogota, on July 16, 2021. You know how they say in the underworld, "snitches end up in ditches".
Max got killed? Or the Don himself?
Don Lucho was killed in 2021 this doc was a year earlier
He gave up $111 million + but earnt $1 billion annual and got ten years thats mental,…… he’s out now,… with billions I’d do ten year for that much dollar easssssy
He's dead now, 3 years ago
America does not really care for thats one of the ways the usa treasury gets all those billions for wars,so let them with their drugs for 10 yrs and more so when we get them we will reap billions,its a trick game ppl.
😂😂😂
He dieded unfortunately was dieded by someone with no jawline and handsome face
@@jjr1728 Andrew Tate?
Fun fact is that the more money spent on the "war on drugs" the cheaper the drugs get.
How does that work?
@@ciarz3rchain reaction to the environment
It doesn't actually work like that, the money spent on enforcing prohibition is irrelevant, simple fact is supply & demand keeps the price fixed for the end user, that never changes.
All drugs have a minimum viable dosage & drug dealers know exactly what that dosage is, on the supply side the actual growers, get paid very well for a subsistence crop grower.
The vast profits come from the economies of scale by consolidating the supply chain, because the vast majority of drug users never have enough money to pay more.
Minimum Viable dose sees to that, Drug Dealers can't put up the end user price, if they want a captive (Addicted) market because the end user need to be able to pay for that dose.
this max teaches us to never trust a human they are easily manipulated
3000 a month for that stress.
True
Apparently Max was cooperating from day one very easily.
max was DEA from the beginning . POOR Luchio should have known
It was Max Mermelstein
Someone informed on Don Lucho who wanted him out of the game. How in the world you receive a tip that leads to $40 Million dollars in seizure
One Mafia collecting from another Mafia ,the govermamt wants everything people own
So basicaly they rob him 😂😂😂😂
Phenomenal Documentarty. 5 stars . Great production, Great Story Line , & extremely engaging.
Well put
Just read everything with opposite meaning and it made sense.
They make a billion a year and government seize's 175 million....😂😂😂wow so little
Mental that is
$175 million is the price of doing business with the government!
Plus 8 years in jail? this is a joke?
That's literally taxes
Has any body ever seen massive amount s ov drugs being destroyed on time by the clock recorded on camra ,?I wonder wye
HE IS NOT IN VISIBLE. THE PEOPLE BEHIND HIM ARE & WILL BE INVISIBLE FOREVER. 😊
No matter how much money they have, they can never stop. It's the power they crave just like any drug, that's their addiction.
If they had labradors they would calm down
invisible + power + control = incognito 100%
Same old DEA. Smuggle money into the USA for us and you get a pass.
On the morning of July 16 2021 Luis Agustín Caicedo Velandia, alias “Don Lucho,” was shot dead by two gunmen in Teusaquillo, a district in the north of the Colombian capital, this documentary was made in 2020.
Who killed him?
@@Joseluz1969too big to fail, figure it out.
@@Joseluz1969 Assassins!!
I understand exactly what you mean 🤔
Have to smear people before the takedown. Seems to be the process for some reason.
Wish we had investigators like these in SA with the illicit drug; gold and rhino trade whilst the country is riddled with crime; an average of 85 citizens being murdered; corrupt government; security forces and open borders; ports and airports; even phillipinos now own a piece of one of our ports😢😢😢😢we live in a gangster state😢😢😢
It’s sad what’s happened to S Africa a once wealthy country now down on its knees due to corruption
Its absolutely unbelievable what you have going on there. Would you consider getting out?
Liar
@@ianmuir3640 Diversity is strength.........
Someone didn't get paid in the chain, so they snitched 🤣
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
'If you can get $10m in the us that will do more for ya' corruption at its finest
I do not understand why hardly anyone is aware that the best solution is "not to use the stuff!". That is, if no one buys it, then there is no demand. No demand= No problem.
Please upload the remaining episodes,this is a very interesting and intriguing program.
Excellent documentary
They took control of 175 million in drugs ?. lol. ffs . That isn't even an hours worth of trade world wide . I have seen bigger shipments stopped in a British bust . The British trade alone is about 15 billion annually . The drug war was lost decades ago .
Don't think it was ever meant to be won.
i don't get why they say he's alive, if you look him up, there are news articles claiming he's ben assassinated in 2021
Someone snitched up. 40 mill loss. He must hv been sour
Gr8 presentation. Cheers. Now for the Gvt Crime Families.
Informant is the biggest hater 😅
The Jeff Bezos comment says more about this lady's intelligence and jealousy than Jeff Bezos.
Comparison . English is tough
😂😂😂@@drkimanikabii2521
Yes with the same reasons se thinks that 40m is hurting them
@@gerardusronald1552do you think 40m is a rounding error? Someone is losing a limb
32:42 How could everybody be scared of Don Lucho if he was invisible, and nobody knew about him?
It's really sad how this has affected families, loved ones, societies and countries.
He seems like the kind of guy that would live quietly after this. No way he can trust anyone ever again
So to all the comments below...I say that Organised Crime i.e. Drug Trfficking etc DOES not happen without GOVERNMENTS complicity.
They never stopped or made the drug trafficking any different or dented the drug industry in anyway. So what’s the point of doing it the only way to stop drugs is to stop people taking them by introducing methods by educating them from the addiction if taking drugs.
And yet we all drink alcohol
8 Years, Gave up $111M, probably another 900M$ to his name when he gets back, plus the people who owe him money lool
he was killed in 2021 so the money is lost
Money is not the root of all evil - it is the want, use and the power of it that is Human Evil
if you a big big drug dealer in colombia never ever ever step foot on US Soil lol
Great docus these series about Invisibles, quality
No where near this is hilarious 😂
gov propaganda for war on drugs to continue, instead of legalizing.
Corrupt government officials are the biggest prison profiteers. The war on drugs keeps private prison cells full for max shareholder profits each quarter!
Where did he get his seed money from?
That outro sounds like an invite.
Better to just legalise drugs and tax the distribution of it to fund education detoxification and rehabilitation services
It never gets distributed like that though, it will end up in Ukraine, Israel and ultimately in Biden's pockets
Fentanyl is already a legalised medical drug how u r going to legalise that😂…are you a drug dealer ?
If you legalise it, all this people, agents would be out of job.
This is best DEA press conference ever.
Enjoyed this too
The music choice is not a successful idea it's so loud and noisy
Correct simply turn it down a bit
Bee-zos? How can I trust her opinion on anything lol
So if hes invincible how you know all this info...
Excellent channel
you make him a hero more than a criminal .
Wow Amazing Always been like this !! Tones and tones of hash comes here but never ever in 50 years have they got the big guys !!biggest players has always stayed under the radar or works with the radar !!
There's a lot more big guys doing drugs successfully and freely simply because they've got government support 😅
“My wife didn’t know what I did” What a load of Tam Kite, yes love I’m earning all this money on the taxis
4:23 bros like what we sent 100mill lol
Funny how they make the real king pins look like the heroes.
The invincibles is the government itself
Used this system for years when I was at it difference was we used certain passwords to access drafts still works today just change passwords every time you use it
How to win the war on drugs? Dont take drugs 😂
the end says it all. did it change anything.. no..
this problem can't be resolve forever..thats why there is a government,police,lawyer etc.
Correct they have built a whole industry around it. It will never end, and they don't want it to.
Notice how they touched on drug topics happening in multiple countries around the globe except the US and Mexico.
We didn't want to get greedy 😂😂😂😂😂
Organised crime cannot thrive without corruption.
I'll say, write in a certain normal partern and change partern when being caught to alert others. Simple. Should be so little that the authority won't notice the change.....could be avoid fullstop at the end, don't begin with caps.....anything
I smell cap here 😂
Be nice if you could read the subtitles though
all i heard is the government went...Bottom line where's our cut.
The focus must be on the consumers and money laundry system arround the world
The rat said it was all work no play yet they caught him going on holiday
Why spend all this time on production making it and then ruin it with tiny font subtitles you can’t see
It is extremely difficult to shut down the supply of the equation because the supply source is outside the US territorial boundary and beyond the control of US government. The USA needs to fight the war on drugs on both fronts (demand and supply). You can understand this from simple principles of micro economics ( market forces of demandand supply)- the higher the demand the higher the suppl due to high profit, and the lower the demand the lower the supply due to low profit.
CIA will never allow anyone to interfere with their drug supply business. Drug trade will never stop, because the World's elite benefit from all the profits and they allow safe passage for important drug lords. This guy is small fry.
Watching from Singapore ❤️❤️❤️
How many labradors are in Singapore
The only time Americans use kilos as a standard instead of pounds 😅
So basically you legally looted money from the drug dealer and what did you guys do with that money is the question!
very intersting documentary
The DEA PR department working overtime desperate to justify their existence & the cost of funding their useless activities.
Same same ,money can satisfy just about anyone, u.s settled for the right price.
Legend
The Big Atvantage of such Operation ,that Future Drug Pins will always have to Look around the Shoulder if the Police is not Behind Them. It must be a Terible Life always watching out for the Police. all the Money does not make the Paranoia go away.
The big guys work for the CIA. As long as they don't get out of line with them they will be fine.
He was assassinated in Colombia with his lawyer
So he gave up under 5% of his fortune, spent 8 years behind bars and now free as a bird sitting on billions..what was the ponit of all the struggle?
that wasnt the biggest cash bust, the biggest one was in mexico around 500 million in cash in mexico city
The war, if one could call it that ,has to be first and foremost on the side of tackling the demand side for any kind of stemming the aspect of supply,after all that is the only driving element of the whole sordid saga!✌️
Not drugs just innocent kids
Who invented drugs market so huge scale never seen before ? CIA .Where Usa are the drugs market goes follow .
How much money were given under the table to agents for pretty careing him ? ...The answer knows the wind ...
Is this a netflix series
That's shows you can buy your way out as long as you pay your tax 😂😂😂. Let's take a guess who's the most corrupt here.😂
Just make it legal. I have no idea why drugs are illegal.
Cared only about the money, you know you cant stop it as you sayd at the end
There is always a weak "grass".
So the operation was futile in the end they're still winning the war on drugs😢
26:10 $175 million.
Wait... The documentary started with $40M in a single catch...
Something's not going....
A losing battle indeed.
Any news on Eipstein list? 😊
These law enforcement are acting like they've got it sussed, but for a grass, they wouldn't have a clue
In end, is all about the money not life
29:29 Sounds like Dune 2 announcer ... FAYD RAUTHAAAAA