On the frontline of Mexico's drug war | Hotspots
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Mexico's official murder rate last year was nearly 30,000 people. The worst year since the government started counting bodies 20 years ago.
It is widely assumed that this is almost entirely caused by the drug wars raging between the country's Narco Cartels and the government.
Murdering business or political opponents is taking over from legal action and the ballot box.
We travelled to one of the worst hit areas in Mexico, the formerly glamorous playground of the wealthy, Acapulco, to see what is happening to society and why it has become so violent.
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Now the entire Acapulco police department was arrested by the Mexican military.
what about the cartels tho?
Militaries don’t have powers of arrest though, what did they do
Is that true? Really?
@@yonslash457 look for it
Cognitive Schizo if the cops weren’t crooked these drug dealers wouldn’t survive.
So sad. Was such a great vacation spot in the 90s.
mx is still gorgeous and biiiiig af Plenty of safe areas
Puerto Vallarta is still beautiful and very little violence.
Eight Cubans from Miami affiliated with Los Zetas Cartel were executed in Cancun.
Executed by who??
Gil Klahr95 members from los Zetas
8 less dirt bags walking the earth
David Debarros They need to release Chapo so he can put the Zetas in their place.
John Bortolin they fucked up hard by putting him away now there paying the price cancun is the next Acapulco
A drug war that will NEVER be won....EVER!!!!....
The drug war was won. It's just the wrong side that won.
So we're just gonna keep at it til we win. Which will probably be never.
@@marijuanaknowsomething6743 I do think it will be won by the right side one day not in a few years but decades when they catch el chapos son this problem is so complex I'm so furious because 2 of my uncles were murdered in mexico by drug cartel members 1 of them was kidnapped and my family was told to pay a ransom of 50000 dollars they paid the ransom but never got my uncle back I'm so mad and upset that I have no power to ever get justice for them
The drug war aka DEA is just an excuse to invade foreign latin american countries & corrupt latin government, think about american drug consumption benefits corrupt officials, extradition is another example to, chess not checkers
@@mgam4963 The best way to win this war is not guns but infrastructure, education and job opportunity for the poorest. Organised crime thrives whereever there is poverty.
It will. When the government decides to actually try they wipe out entire groups within a week
I feel guilty I’m a Mexican from Veracruz ... God please save my country and my people from all this violence let the people live in peace ... I’ll pray for the people out there God bless
President Obrador- legalize drugs and just about everything else other than murder, assault, theft, rape and kidnapping- to take it out of the cartels. It's true that they would probably find some other profit-making enterprise to exploit, but it would help. And other countries would have to legalize, as well. And really crack down on the corrupt politicians, cops and military on the take, so that the cartels can be flushed out. Especially get rid of the dirty politicians, as without them it'd be easier to take out the corrupt members of the military and police. They should have the US and Mexico arm all the law-abiding Mexican civilians, and put a bounty on all the cartel goons. Like in the Old West U.S. Hopefully there are enough uncorrupt politicians in both countries to do it.
I love y'all n May The Lord Almighty n Virgin Mary
Be with y'all los Amo mucho y lo siento porque yo tambien Ando n un Pelia grande ora por Gergencia Fina de calida de Real De Humano Amen
it still is, your being sold
What a mess. This is something that cannot be easily solved. I feel bad for the people caught in the middle.
"And it is absolutely everywhere"
Yucatan: Si si si, claro we
Acapulco used to be a major hotspot. USED TO BE.
Silly Witch it’s Still HOTT son
Still is
Acapulco is on the U.S list of Dangerous destinations for tourists and most of Mexico as a whole. So go there at your own Risk
Acapulco is beautiful. The USA is kind of saying bullshit
yep i went there 2 time for 1 month each time last time in 2010 it was beautiful..i will never go back though
The editing on this is awesome. This whole video was very interesting and to the point. Thanks skynews
Feel sorry for most of the beautiful honest hardworking mexican people with cartelwars everywhere.
_How come the Cartels are always welcoming and providing information to the British journalists_ ?????
Well U need Money and some Guts it will do it.
They're probably part of them
Sabino Garcia
They are motivating them by giving money.
heres why cause they could be fear....come on bro dont be stupid..
think!!!....they do thia for fun cartels dont carr.
Cartels don't hurt innocent people. As a tourist in Mexico I've even got to hangout with cartel members. They're cool people. But they don't play about their money. Which is fair in my eyes.
after owning a house in acapulco for 10 years, i made the decision to sell it just prior to the start of the drug war. as i watch, with a great deal of sadness, this report showing the destruction of the city i came to love,i can;t help feeling a personal sense of loss. shortly after the united states decimated the drug cartels operation in columbia, they moved it to mexico. for the cartel and the corrupt mexican officials, it was a match made in heaven. in mexico, the cartel can operate free of interference from the federal government, the knowledge they are free from extradition and now much closer to it's greatest consumer, the united states. for the mexican officials, the opportunity to add billions to their, already bloated, foreign bank accounts.in light of the governments total disregard for the welfare of the people and its partnership with the drug cartel, the people have turned to the drug trade to secure their future.
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The drug sellers in MX are not free from being extradited. They may be free to carry out there business in MX, but El Chapo, and El Huevo now reside in The United States in special little apartments.
"On the frontline of Mexico's drug war"
- more "In the rear with the gear"
Macroverse Media how is guerrero not the frontline?
That's hilarious 😂😂😂,there is a few video where's the reporters got caught in a actual gun battle though!
This documentary really helped with my essay. It saddens me that this happens every day and it's just getting worse. War is not the solution to justice for these families who lost their loved ones.
War may be the only solution. I think that may be true that an invasion on the cartels may be the only way, unless the reach of the cartels is so pervasive that they even buy off some in the U.S. Gov't., as well as some Mexican officials. Although, Trump could still attack. Use Air Force and drones. I thought of arming the Mexican citizens, but the Mexican gov't is too corrupt to arm them. I believe that most of Mexico's GDP is from the cartels' kickbacks. And Mexico wouldn't let the U.S. go down there and hand out weapons. So an invasion may be the only thing left. I've suggested legalization of drugs, which would help. But there are other illegal activities they'd find, and are already in.
Easy for u to say, they weren’t ur loved ones! Sometimes u gotta scratch the whole game and pick new teams! Chase whatever they are doing ain’t working! First off though, we need to start with the Mexican government first!
Acapulco one time was the Paradise of Mexico!!!!
ED_PR ED_PR so sad. Elizabeth Taylor’s favorite place in the world at one point. My how times have changed.
Great reporting
STOP BUYING DRUGS
STOP BUYING DRUGS
STOP BUYING DRUGS
STOP BUYING DRUGS
NOT our problem.Not to mention that the cartels get plenty of money from extortion and kidnappings too
No. Legalize all drugs.
That works too.
@@richardsellsaz6865 it is your problem. Only reason cartels sell is because of the demand in the US
yes, if the prices from drug trafficking plummet there will be more hitmans for hire so i get cheaper hitmans, yes!
I feel so bad for my people.. It breaks my heart
People as in Mexican Cartels because they are technically your people committing crimes.
Acapulco is beautiful
Mexico13 was
Mexico13 no it isnt
GGMU #JOSEFOREVER still is brother
The people, the landscape, the culture, undeniably beautiful. Been many times and can’t get back soon enough.
Mexico13 the place is beautiful, the nature, the ugly part is the people
Corruption is the enemy!
My family lived outside of Acapulco for 2 years on Pie de la Cuesta
We left when we drove to town one day and there were two bodies hanging on the phone poles of our favorite little cabana
I was down there in 04’ for Spring Break. Armed guards on every corner. It was crazy
Wrong the war broke in 06
The saddest part are these poor family members trying to reason with this horrible situation and its consequences
I'm from Acapulco I love it there
I say we just legalize all drugs and let natural selection takes its course instead of innocent people losing lives.
Tupac Shakur this
I knew Pac was still alive
OrangeOceanOctopus go back to smd
Jon who said anything about driving, duis can still stay.
Tupac Shakur
That's inevitable since those who don't take, their offspring generation will do it. The cartels try to make it most addictive drugs.
Why are the drug addicts in Florida being killed by the Cartel ?
because they involved in criminal activities.
The State of Florida is a narco banana republic
Florida's land are valueless.. Florida is a flat peninsula and the peninsula is a Sinkhole! in few tears the peninsula will be under water.. only idiots like Trump launder drug money there.
Pancho Sancho Guerrero Azteca years? No man 50 to 100 years ( prolly less if huge hurricanes etc keep coming ) still a long time 🙂
so many narco-executions in Chicago and Miami, cartels at war
It was not long ago this was the place to be, I remember people talking about Acapulco all the time. I haven't heard about it in awhile and now I see why
I have been to Acapulco a dozen times at least. I had so much fun down there. The weather is so perfect. Now I would never go again
I live 35 minutes from Acapulco I go there at least twice a month every nice friendly people I'm not saying there is not crime but the tourist areas where I've been very safe, friendly petty normal
The Cartels watching over the Tourists I guess.....they are also good money for them! If one would be killed or kidnapped this would hurt Cartels money pretty bad!
@@Itchykiller No,they don't care.
@@Itchykiller Were no good money for them.
@@Itchykiller they don’t care cartels don’t care they make enough money selling illegal drugs anyways
That looks like my hometown, Tuxpan, Guerrero.
SKY NEWS. please do more coverage of cartels / drug war in mexico. it's very interesting very.
Cruz Bazan ...who has good documentaries also???..i watch vice news n sum others
There should be a RP game of this
And the cartel will hunt them like a pig one by one...
Good program!
Great job!
Everyone: Dominican republic is a bad place to vacation
Mexico: hold my cerveza
So sad but I love Acapulco Gold !!!! Beautiful land race strain.
16thdave is it a legit land race strain
GRINGO Dude stupid question. It's is the original everyone knows
It's a sad sad world.... 💔
How sad , I’ve been to Mexico / Bucerías and all the people I’ve met were so nice . I’d return there in a second what a waste of life and how people get caught in the world of drugs and all the corruption in that country is disgusting .
Same here in Philippines people...
Don't worry I'm play ghost recon wildlands, and I'm pushing back the cartel.
Lol😂😂😂😂
Do that in real life
@Christopher Bateman true on that bro Mexico government is so fucked up this y I'm staying in America I won't fight no one's war
@Christopher Bateman That's because the #Mexican government is at the #headoftheclass 🎓
Yeah Do that in real Life... of course Not... no Balls
So tragic !!!!!☹️
These reporters are brave! Going loco down in Aquapoco.
I have watched several videos on shock sites what they to their rivals, it isvery unreal and schocking. The absolute ultimate of the ultimate hardcore criminals.
normal
Condolences to the families.
Hackney, and Surrey I am happy to say continues to be relatively safer than some parts of mexico
Bit different to Mexico haha
Do this team do any other documentaries?
End the drug war
adam tyler Exactly. End the drug war. Hit the cartels where it hurts.
ben yosep but only we can stop it. If we all stop taking drugs then the cartel will be in shambles.
I'm a small man with big problems Nobody is going to stop taking drugs. End the drug war and cartels will make no money.
ChickenNuggets Official end the drug war and people will still die.
I'm a small man with big problems Crime will reduce significantly. That's the point.
I didn't know that poppy plant is beautiful.
They’re very beautiful! With very pretty colors!
Sad
Hard to know where to vacation now.
People ask why the US needs border security on our southern border. It’s not because of “Mexicans,” but rather to prevent more of this violence from spilling over into our country. And I say more, because it is already here, just not on this level. I believe that in order to stop this, we should be concentrating on helping our fellow North Americans more so than Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc., countries on the other side of the world. Sit down with the Mexican government instead of these Middle Eastern countries that don’t quite have an immediate effect on us. This is literally our backyard and we don’t care at all to let them deal with it on their own. This is why border security shouldn’t just mean put up a wall and hire more CBP agents to police the border. We need stronger border security as well as for our counter terrorism forces to join the Mexican’s own CT forces and fight to take THESE insurgents rather than the ones thousands of miles away that can’t literally crawl through a tunnel straight into our country, kill their rivals/targets, and slip back into Mexico.
They have to do something about this !! Smh
MEXICO has to do something about that
Scary place 😪
Scandalous
legalize is maybe the best option to start with
benito camelo if they did legalize all the drugs that would make it worse than the cartel war........the actual drug would kill people faster than people
Decriminalization is the only answer to this problem! I've also been saying this forever!
+officer Kneegr
Legalizing drugs will not increase use.
officer Kneegr . Your theory that legalization would be worse has been proven wrong in Portugal and the Netherlands.
If they legalize it the goverment will charge more because of tax etc so people will still go to the cartels for wholesale prices so it wouldnt actually help plus the cia are above the cartels the likes of escobar and chapo are scape goats they get blamed for everything yet behind the scenes the cia make sure the buisness continues
GTA real life...GTA Mexico city.
That's not Mexico city
Damn I used to lived there years ago.
Thankyou sky news for risking your lives for showing different stories of the world.
My friend just got married and when they told me they were going to Mexico for a honeymoon I had to hold my tongue as I didn't want to ruin their excitement. I had to refrain from calling them complete idiots.
Amazes me how oblivious people still are about Mexico, I will never go there it's a complete warzone.
It's not all of Mexico that's under siege, but the border towns and some coastal ones as well. The interior is still kinda livable and pueblos magicos can still be found scattered around here and there.
Some areas around Cancun and Playa De Carmen are much much safer. But there is still a higher homicide rate compared to any city in the USA.
Finally a city more dangerous than Baltimore.
Mexico finally got a medal 🥈
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527794495/mexico-is-called-worlds-second-most-violent-country
Robert Lind
Caracas, Venezuela.
The life span of a tourist in this city barely exceeds a fly’s.
Chicago
Apparently it’s now racist to say that.
Damn more dangerous than Chicago
So sad
I’m from the U.K. and I’ll be going loco down in Acapulco in July! 🇬🇧❤️🇲🇽
people just want to live in peace
There are tunnels leading into the U.S. In the U.S., they set up shop behind stores.
What year does he mean by saying “last year” ?
Due to the massive govertment curruption I saw this coming in the land where I grew up... now is irrecognosable.
This is very sad. END THE DRUG WAR.... LEGALIZE ALLL DRUGS that will end the killings
Not true.
Corey R yes it will be less killing cause then they wont make a profit out of it.
The Jews worship money. - gold is their God
Its not the awnser drugs will always bring problems legalized or not legalized
Cartels make money off extortion and kidnappings too.
I certainly won’t be going loco down in Acapulco for my vacation any time soon!
so how come no filming of drug areas los angeles..hawai...chicago..bronx...no diffearance
In the words of Pete Tosh: "Legalize it - don't criticize it"
reefergladness look at Portugal. Users are treated while the dealers are stamped out.
And All the people become morons
@@kuntosemeru1240 The WEST want these people to become morons so they could control them more easily.. This is the WEST and the LIBERALS agenda from the beginning...
being surrounded by morons is better than being surrounded by violent crime from the black market
@@robinsss Legalizing drugs is a lose/lose solution.. Then again Mexico is a hopeless case... Here in the Philppines we kill these cartetls.. Preemptive and preventive solution is always the best solution.. Bad thing is Mexico dont have strong-willed political leaders...
It's about time someone showed the real side of the story..thanks great vid..
What's the soundtrack calked
I was in Acapulco literally like last week. All I saw was Mexican military everywhere I went. I didn’t know it was that bad
Imagine if Latin America was more atheist than before. The way I see it, my people literally “pray” for something better to come. But don’t do anything... We literally just wait and do nothing... now imagine if our people focused on schools, science, social change. Study for economics classes to cure the cause of poverty, no need for corruption, and then there would be no need for people to join cartels and cause more violence.
Socio-economic differences are the biggest reason, religious or not, hence people are desperate enough to join the cartels. Atheism won't make institutions less corrupt or make those who have a monopoly willingly give up said monopoly.
Maybe because “your people” pray to the devil
Absolute rubbish.
Tyler devil doesn’t exist.
Ryan J I can’t put the blame on religion. But the violence needs to stop and there’s an option.
OPIUM WAR: CHINA 2-1 U.K
game over
That's alot of worse wars than I anticipated. These evil thugs is getting way too far.
pretty shocking when it was going on for many years now!!!
11 yrs
They need some one like the president of the philippines
John C no fire cannot beat fire we need another approach, war on drugs is a failure strategy
@@helbert8205 STFU our war on drugs here in the Philippines is 99.9% effective... War on drugs in the WEST is weak because your leaders there are a bunch of weak pussies eho adhere to these HUMAN RIGHTS BULLSHIEET$!!!
@@KevinTroy777 The war on drugs in the east works because the gangs there are weak. The citizens themselves buy the drugs from those gangs.
The exact opposite of the Mexican war on drugs. Mexican citizens don't buy these drugs. Foreigners do. We need legalization of these drugs to weaken them and then crack them down.
The Philippines are home to weak and poor gangs. These cartels have millions of dollars to spend. And its bad
Damm right we do
The truth is if poverty wasn’t a problem, there would be way less violence.
Javier Robles IMF
American poverty. These people arent dying because they consume drugs they are dying because of people up north consuming drugs.
jim broker México has been going down hill for a while
God Bless
Looks like Essex, England
very interesting. with America now using fentanyl i wonder how this affects the opium trade.
dogeatdog12345
It doesn't affect it at all big pharma still needs it
If anything we going need more. Which means more production, more shipments.
Supply and demand fueling this problem.
Where I live the confiscate 30 tons of cociane per year
Honduras, El Salvador & now Nicaragua are extremely dangerous countries also.
As long as there is a demand this will continue.
Even if it ends, they have other ways to make money such as protection services, kidnapping for ransom, stealing oil to be sold at black market, etc.
This bull man! They need to do something more!!!
God bless!!!!!!
MEXICO NEEDS DUERTE!!!
Mexico is already at war lol
Mexico copy my tatay du30
just imagine it! LOL
There would be ethnic cleansing.
If our President governed in your country surely it will be relentless drug war.
Half of Mexicos population will probably be gone if Duterte governs Mexico..
Blood for blood very simple already they have nothing too lose .
What can happened that not have done.
6:02 the cherry on the top.
Que triste
In Mexico theirs no rules and no cops! No BS 🤑
I'm ready to work on the wall
It is so sad because it is such a beautiful country but at the moment it is hell on earth for the people living there
The people cannot die like this without someone being held accountable. Americans must intervene so this brutal killings and crimes must stop,alot of people has lost their innocent loved ones.
This comment section is ruthless , Damn.
Because it's a ruthless world.
Donald Trump uses the secret service to protect Mar-a-Lago.
A public figure using public resources to serve his private interests. Trump is a crook!
Oh the horror 🙄🙄🙄
That’s like criticizing Obama for using the secret service to protect his home.
Sad to see my moms hometown being like this
I seen your mom on stage
Help!!!!!
money and drugs are the root of all evil
sometimes...
Religion.
CIA back yard since afghanistan is too far
Profoundly sick society
I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry.
Thanks to our MF friends from the north with a habit out their control.