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After 9/11, the war on terror and the war on drugs collide. In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai's brother is allegedly a major heroin trafficker and the country becomes the premiere heroin supplier. Terrorists line their coffers with drug money, as the first Mexican super cartel forms and El Chapo goes on the run. Big Pharma becomes a major supplier of addictive substances as Americans ponder whether the war on drugs is worth it.
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00:00:00now on america's war on drugs 9-11 happened and the united states invaded one of the largest opium
00:00:15producers in the world these terrorists must be pursued defeated and brought to justice
00:00:22in that effect the patriot act is that it refueled the war on drugs i helped murder families in
00:00:27colombia we were willing to do whatever it took if that meant supporting a known drug trafficker
00:00:34that was not of tantamount concern mexican castle well carry out a hit and then they'll come back
00:00:40a couple hours later investigate the murder they just committed they lied to us about this plant
00:00:45hope in many innocent it's an invitation to your own murder you smoked it and you certainly said
00:00:52wait a minute this stuff isn't so bad got some legal weed they're working with one cartel to
00:00:57take out another cartel we're going to be ruthless in that fight
00:01:01we're all concerned about cocaine and heroin we're legally killing you and we're getting away with
00:01:11what i think is really interesting that we've seen happen in the last 15 or 20 years
00:01:29is that this so-called war on drugs and the so-called war on terror have collided
00:01:35it's been nearly 30 years since richard nixon declared the war on drugs
00:01:43but nearly 16 million americans are regularly getting high on illegal narcotics each month
00:01:52the illegal drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope and i intend to do something about them
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00:03:54Two American Hercules C-130 aircraft take off from an airbase in Uzbekistan.
00:04:24The CIA's just dropped 19 half-ton crates full of weapons and supplies.
00:04:35On the ground to receive the drop, a CIA-backed insurgent army.
00:04:43Led by this man, Hamid Karzai. Western educated, sworn enemy of the Taliban.
00:04:53In the 1980s, Karzai joined the CIA-backed war against Soviet invaders,
00:04:58fighting alongside fellow Mujahideen Osama bin Laden.
00:05:02He's been a CIA asset ever since.
00:05:06The CIA wanted to get our guy positioned in power.
00:05:11Someone that we could work with.
00:05:13Someone that we knew would work toward the aims of the United States.
00:05:17And that guy was Hamid Karzai.
00:05:21Karzai and his men must traverse hundreds of miles through Taliban-controlled territory in order to seize power.
00:05:28But on a mountain pass, they're ambushed.
00:05:40They're ambushed and the agency doesn't know if Karzai's alive or dead.
00:05:47They're ambushed and the agency doesn't know if Karzai's alive or dead.
00:06:00Okay, Ian, what's the coordinates?
00:06:03North 1506 West 8319.
00:06:06At least ten people.
00:06:07Signal down, we've lost visual.
00:06:09Signal down, we've lost visual.
00:06:10Are you there? Do you copy? Do you copy?
00:06:15Karzai, are you there?
00:06:17Please respond.
00:06:19Hello? Hello? It's Harid! Yes! We are victorious!
00:06:29Karzai's men have prevailed.
00:06:34And the American-led coalition installs Karzai as Afghanistan's interim leader.
00:06:49We got our guy in power. We got the lesser of all the evils in power.
00:07:02As he secures his grip on power, one of his first acts as president is to give control of Afghanistan's strategic south to his brother, Achmed Wali Karzai.
00:07:15He's one of Afghanistan's best connected heroin traffickers.
00:07:19Now, thanks to his brother, he's on the CIA payroll.
00:07:23Afghanistan produces the vast majority of the world's heroin supply, by some estimates upwards of 90%.
00:07:30Located at the center of the so-called Golden Crescent, there's a saying here, whoever controls the poppy, controls the country.
00:07:41We were willing to do whatever it took.
00:07:44If that meant turning a blind eye to or even implicitly supporting a known drug trafficker, that was really not of tantamount concern.
00:08:00At a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghan security forces are on high alert for car bombs.
00:08:07But when they stop a truck and search the vehicle, they find a huge stash of heroin.
00:08:36Before the checkpoint commander can make an arrest, he receives a call.
00:08:46It's the brother of the president.
00:08:52I think that the Karzai family put one son in politics, they put one son in business, they put one son in a mosque.
00:09:05And this is how you have control over all the elements of state.
00:09:09And the notion that those brothers aren't all working together for the benefit of the family is ludicrous.
00:09:21I think this is an urgent problem.
00:09:31Achmed Wali Karzai, newly appointed ruler of the south, orders the truck to be given safe passage.
00:09:38Ahmed Wali Karzai, the role he played in the drug trade was to provide protection, to provide political cover for major drug traffickers.
00:09:48He was the guy that made sure those trucks got through.
00:09:52The CIA thinks that we're really fighting the important war, the war on terror.
00:10:05We're the ones keeping Americans safe.
00:10:07And this war on drugs, it's a losing battle that we don't want to concern ourselves with.
00:10:15As Afghan heroin floods the market, back at home, the Bush administration pushes through a new anti-terror law that will change the face of the domestic war on drugs.
00:10:25Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, accompanied by the vice president.
00:10:43The changes affected today will help counter a threat like no other our nation has ever faced.
00:10:50We've seen the enemy in the murder of thousands of innocent, unsuspecting people.
00:10:57They recognize no barrier of morality.
00:11:01They have no conscience.
00:11:04These terrorists must be pursued.
00:11:07They must be defeated.
00:11:09And they must be brought to justice.
00:11:12It is now my honor to sign into law the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
00:11:20The Patriot Act passed 9-8 in favor of one senator against in the name of fighting terrorism.
00:11:27Actually, some of his main provisions are more often used for drug prosecutions.
00:11:33Police will now be able to search and seize without probable cause and even without your knowledge.
00:11:39Over the coming years, the U.S. government will issue thousands of so-called sneak and peek warrants.
00:11:45Less than 1% will have to do with terrorism and over 75% will be for drugs.
00:11:52The net effect, really, of the Patriot Act in the War on Terror is that it refueled the war on drugs.
00:12:02Super Bowl XXXVI. 86 million Americans watched the Patriots battle the Rams.
00:12:08It's the most watched TV event of the year and the perfect opportunity for the government to premiere a new anti-drug ad campaign.
00:12:17I helped murder families in Colombia.
00:12:19It was just innocent fun.
00:12:20I helped kidnap people's dads.
00:12:22Hey, some harmless fun.
00:12:24I help kids learn how to kill.
00:12:26I was just having some fun, you know.
00:12:28During the first Super Bowl after 9-11, we have this ad come out that shows the desperation of the mentality behind the War on Terror.
00:12:40That if you use drugs, you're not hurting yourself, you're helping terrorists.
00:12:45I helped the bomber get a fake passport.
00:12:47All the kids do it.
00:12:48I helped kill a judge.
00:12:49I helped blow up buildings.
00:12:51The irony of this is that throughout history, the U.S. government has been entrenched and at least peripherally involved with the drug trade to a much greater degree than any teenager experimenting with drugs in the United States is ever going to be.
00:13:15While America's preoccupied with a drug-fueled war on terror, right at our doorstep, another drug war is about to create the most powerful and violent cartels,
00:13:44the world has ever known.
00:13:5131 years after America declared the war on drugs, the U.S. now consumes as much as 40% of the world's cocaine and spends approximately $25 billion on marijuana.
00:14:09Being close to the world's biggest consumer of illegal drugs has been a good thing for the Mexican cartels, not for Mexico itself, but for its criminal organizations, this is a gift.
00:14:18A decade after NAFTA helped turn Mexico into the key transshipment point for the North American drug trade, four major Mexican cartels battle for control of the border.
00:14:32The most dominant is the Juarez Cartel.
00:14:35Once led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, this mysterious death led to a power struggle for the most valuable turf in the drug game.
00:14:45The critical border town, Ciudad Juarez, directly across from El Paso.
00:14:52When you dig into it underneath the surface, that's when you started seeing how it really worked and there was a lot of pretty ugly stuff going on.
00:15:01U.S. law enforcement are about to infiltrate the cartel, blurring the lines between good guys and bad.
00:15:21Crossing the bridge that divides the two countries is a man on the inside of it all.
00:15:27Guillermo Ramirez Pero, also known as Lalo.
00:15:32A former Mexican highway patrolman turned Juarez Cartel Lieutenant.
00:15:38He knew that sooner or later he will be arrested or killed.
00:15:45Lalo heads to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol office to offer his services as an informant.
00:15:53Lalo believed as an informant that he will have some protection by the federal U.S. government.
00:16:02I understand you have some information. Can you protect me? Depends.
00:16:27After extensive vetting, Lalo begins to talk.
00:16:30He makes a shocking claim. Numerous Mexican state police officers are also working for the Juarez Cartel.
00:16:51Lalo, he's typical of so many of these rats.
00:16:57It's a matter of survival. It's a matter of playing both ends towards the middle to protect yourself.
00:17:04It's a very dangerous world and a very violent world.
00:17:10U.S. Customs agents register Lalo as informant number 913 and put him to work undercover inside the cartel.
00:17:18Lalo is heading to a cartel safe house for a meeting with a small-time drug smuggler, Fernando Reyes.
00:17:37Reyes is looking for help moving a half-ton of marijuana across the border.
00:17:46But the cartel leaders are not happy Reyes is operating on their turf.
00:17:52While Lalo pretends to facilitate the deal, two Juarez cops on the cartel payroll emerge from another room.
00:18:04They ripped off a cord from a lamp and are trying to choke him to death. This guy's just not dying.
00:18:19And they said, we need your help.
00:18:20They said, we need your help.
00:18:26Finally killed him by hitting him in the back of the head and broke his neck.
00:18:32Lalo has recorded the entire murder and turns it over to his customs and the police.
00:19:01border control handlers.
00:19:03There were rumors about Mexican law enforcement.
00:19:06You know, people assumed that they were corrupt.
00:19:08But he was really the first guy to bring out just how it worked.
00:19:15The Mexican government and the Mexican law enforcement were part of the cartel.
00:19:22There's stories that just blow your mind.
00:19:24Mexican cops would go out and carry out a hit.
00:19:27And then they'll come back in a police uniform a couple of hours later and investigate the murder they just committed.
00:19:34That's how it worked.
00:19:36They call it the color of law, right?
00:19:38When are you a cartel?
00:19:40When are you law enforcement?
00:19:42There is no line, really.
00:19:44It's all one fluid thing.
00:19:46In Mexico, less than one percent serious crimes end up in any kind of conviction.
00:19:53When the U.S. customs agents tell their bosses in Washington about the murder, they receive a directive.
00:19:58Continue working with Lalo.
00:20:01They had so much invested in this case.
00:20:05They were trying to get after the big fish in the Juarez cartel.
00:20:08And so he went back.
00:20:10And he participated in subsequent murders.
00:20:12And he even told them ahead of time that he was opening up the house.
00:20:15He was going to have a barbecue.
00:20:16And they would bring someone over and torture and murder him there.
00:20:21They were making deals with the devil.
00:20:25Because Lalo was one of the devils of the Juarez cartel.
00:20:31He was a blood killer.
00:20:37This guy was actually given a license to kill.
00:20:43You don't want to believe that you have American law enforcement involved.
00:20:49In January 2004, the Mexican military move in on the house where Fernando Reyes was killed.
00:20:59They find 12 bodies buried in the backyard, including Reyes.
00:21:08The press will call it the house of death.
00:21:11The house of death was the first evidence how violent was the drug business in Mexico.
00:21:20How deeply the Mexican police, the Mexican government, and some U.S. federal agencies were involved.
00:21:30This is a really tragic and a really dark foretelling of what we would start to see with the drug war later on.
00:21:39You think of mass graves and you think of genocide in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
00:21:45And all of a sudden, this is happening just south of our border.
00:21:48Lalo will escape all prosecution.
00:22:03The Juarez cartel will soon face an enemy far more ruthless than the U.S. or Mexican governments.
00:22:09The man who will become the most notorious drug trafficker in the Western Hemisphere.
00:22:15El Chapo.
00:22:16What's your jean?
00:22:17He's probably forgotten.
00:22:18By the way, he's a natural spy.
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00:22:38Two hundred Mexican soldiers are on their way to make a high profile arrest.
00:22:41arrest. They intend to nab an elusive drug lord popular with the locals. So popular they've
00:22:52already tipped him off. And he's long gone. Joaquin Guzman Lorera, nicknamed El Chapo or
00:23:05Shorty, by age nine he's already got his start in the drug trade and then rises to become
00:23:11the most powerful drug lord in the Western Hemisphere. Head of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel and known
00:23:17to carry a gold diamond encrusted handgun, his net worth will grow to over an estimated billion
00:23:23dollars, earning him a spot on the Forbes list of the world's richest people. He's not the
00:23:29stereotypical drug lord who dresses flashy. He's a jeans and baseball cap kind of guy.
00:23:36He's a very romanticized figure. In Mexico, you have songs that are written about him.
00:23:44You have entire communities that are rooting for him. Still unknown to most of the world,
00:23:53but ready to make his mark, El Chapo's strategy is to take out the cartels that control the
00:23:58eastern and western border crossings and build a power base before taking the geographically
00:24:04critical Juarez Cartel.
00:24:05What is that? This is the land of heaven here.
00:24:21El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel wants to corner the market by destroying the competition. One major
00:24:27competitor, the Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano-Felix Organization. They control
00:24:34much of the border crossings to the west with a distribution route from Baja California to
00:24:38San Diego. Both El Chapo and the DEA have a common interest in their demise.
00:24:46At a certain point, the Tijuana Cartel became more violent.
00:24:57People were being killed left and right. People were disappearing.
00:25:01Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa organization that he was growing was basically at war with the
00:25:07Tijuana Cartel. Chapo's organization whacked one of the Tijuana organization's top guys. In
00:25:15return, Chapo's brother got murdered in prison. It's like revenge killings. You killed one
00:25:20of mine, I'm gonna go kill one of yours.
00:25:22A man walks into a DEA field office in Tijuana, Mexico. This is Humberto Boya.
00:25:37Chapo Loya Castro, Sinaloa Cartel lawyer and DEA informant. He'll meet secretly with the
00:25:45DEA on 50 occasions, providing critical information on drug trafficking and other organized crime
00:25:52across Mexico.
00:25:55The DEA is at the mercy of their informants. Chapo's lawyer was using DEA to do Chapo's dirty
00:26:04work for him.
00:26:08Castro tells the DEA he has vital information about Sinaloa's rival, the Tijuana Cartel.
00:26:11You want to hear a message. You want to kill a man from two people, so that we, we, we,
00:26:18the city, the city, not only we, we are sending a sicar.
00:26:26The power of these cartels is not to be reckoned with. There is no line that they will cross.
00:26:39DEA agents have been killed in Mexico before. The DEA acts fast against the threat, securing
00:26:46its personnel, then launches a preemptive strike against the Tijuana Cartel.
00:26:53They're working with one cartel to take out another cartel. It's almost like moving chess pieces
00:27:00around.
00:27:02The DEA cracks down on the Tijuana Cartel, leaving an opening for their rivals.
00:27:09The DEA cracks down on the Tijuana Cartel, leaving an opening for their rivals.
00:27:17The Sinaloa Cartels now coming for Tijuana's turf. And Loya Castro's information plays a
00:27:24critical role.
00:27:25There are certain people in the drug war. They play in this gray area. They're the informants
00:27:30and the assets and the snitches. And they can play one side against the other. They play
00:27:34in this narrow bridge that's incredibly dangerous. And they play in this narrow bridge that's
00:27:39incredibly dangerous.
00:27:40And they play in this narrow bridge that's incredibly dangerous. The D.A. cracks down on the Tijuana
00:27:43cartel, leaving an opening for their rivals. The Sinaloa Cartels now coming for Tijuana's turf.
00:27:48And Loya Castro's information plays a critical role.
00:27:53But to truly dominate the drug trade, they'll come down to controlling the entire supply chain
00:28:17to the streets of America. So El Chapo sets his sights on Chicago.
00:28:22A day's drive from 70% of the U.S. population, Chicago's a transportation hub crossed by seven
00:28:33major interstate highways with extensive rail and air travel infrastructure.
00:28:38We saw Chicago being a larger and larger hub in order to move drugs into other parts of the country.
00:28:51This is Chicago's 22nd Ward. A heavily Hispanic neighborhood where Mexican cartel members can blend in.
00:29:04El Chapo is drawn to these two brothers.
00:29:07The Flores twins inherited the family's small-time drug business when they were still in high school
00:29:16and grew it to be one of the top cocaine distributors in Chicago, with an annual income of $700 million.
00:29:23Chapo arranges a meeting at his mountain top compound to talk expansion with the two brothers, who have deep roots in Mexico.
00:29:34Trust is only one component of making the deal. El Chapo wants to know, can they deliver?
00:29:40The brothers turn over their books. They show a strong hold on the market. The potential for a solid investment.
00:29:55Having those lines of distribution is key anytime that a Mexican criminal organization wants to expand in the United States.
00:30:04It was an ideal business solution.
00:30:07When El Chapo is just getting started, he's looking to expand his control of the border.
00:30:13So he turns to the eastern crossings controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
00:30:17The Sinaloa Federation really wanted control of this major corridor.
00:30:22After years of attempts at the Gulf's territory, El Chapo goes in to take it all.
00:30:28The Gulf Cartel sent its enforcers Los Etas. These are trained killers. They're trained assassins.
00:30:34Most of them were former military special forces to go out and fight to keep this plaza.
00:30:39That paves the way for violence to absolutely skyrocket.
00:30:43And not only the level, but the characteristics of the violence.
00:30:47That was when we first started seeing the beheadings happen in Mexico, the dismemberments.
00:30:55If you're going to cut off somebody's head, well, we have to be able to do it too to show our commitment to taking over this piece of territory.
00:31:02That really was the epicenter for the expansion of the levels of violence that we would come to see in future years in the drug war.
00:31:11The Cartel's extreme violence becomes political fuel.
00:31:18Eight days after his inauguration, President Felipe Calderon echoes Richard Nixon declaring Mexico's war on drugs.
00:31:26But he takes it one step further, calling on the military.
00:31:3020,000 soldiers are deployed into cartel territory.
00:31:51Every market that Calderon sent the military into to ostensibly end the drug war, the violence didn't go down. It escalated.
00:31:58Despite Calderon's declaration of a war on drugs, Sinaloa persists.
00:32:05The El Paso Juarez Corridor, one of the most lucrative corridors in the drug trade.
00:32:11Chapo Guzman, he sees the El Paso Juarez Corridor as the gold mine of the drug world.
00:32:20After going for the border crossings in the west and east, Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel has come for the ultimate prize.
00:32:30Juarez, controlled by the most powerful and strategically located cartel in the country.
00:32:36Sinaloa was basically killing off the police force that was loyal to the Juarez cartel.
00:32:42They started kicking them off one at a time, trying to one-up each other to show who is the most powerful, who is the most capable of inciting fear.
00:32:54The control over the police force was really the key to taking Juarez.
00:33:00The Sinaloa Cartel is victorious, earning El Chapo exclusive control of the border crossings.
00:33:15But back in the US, the Mexican cartels are about to face powerful new competitors.
00:33:22Legal narcotics, with deadly consequences.
00:33:28The actor Heath Ledger was found dead today.
00:33:32The three-year investigation into the possible prescription drug abuse by talk show host Rush Limbaugh has ended in a plea deal.
00:33:42He was booked Friday in Florida on a charge of getting multiple prescriptions from more than one doctor.
00:33:47The actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in an apartment here in New York City.
00:33:52The investigation now focuses on the theory that an accidental overdose of prescription medication killed Heath Ledger.
00:33:57Officials say the death of the actor highlights the growing danger of prescription drug abuse.
00:34:03When I'm asked what I think about the war on drugs, I often say that I think that we're focusing on the wrong problem.
00:34:10We're all concerned about illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin.
00:34:15But they're diverting attention to the real problem, the big elephant in the room,
00:34:20which is that we're legally killing you and we're getting away with it and nobody's watching.
00:34:27The pharmaceutical industry, also known as Big Pharma.
00:34:31They have hundreds of thousands of doctors on their payroll.
00:34:35In the last decade, they've spent over $2 billion on lobbying, exceeding any other industry.
00:34:42The U.S. is one of the only countries in the world that allows drug companies to advertise directly to potential customers.
00:34:50$3 billion is spent on drug ads every year.
00:34:54And in some states, loopholes will open the door for a new kind of outlaw entrepreneur.
00:35:02In a wealthy neighborhood, two young entrepreneurs tee off, unaware that FBI surveillance is watching their every move.
00:35:20The men are brothers, Chris and Jeff George.
00:35:24In their late 20s, they got their start selling steroids online before becoming game changers in the drug industry.
00:35:32Dispensing thousands of pills a day, all in the name of pain management and wrapped in a doctor's stamp of approval.
00:35:40The George brothers really exploited this loophole in pain management clinics because there was virtually no oversight in Florida at the time.
00:35:53Anybody could start a pain clinic.
00:35:58Chris George started his operation in a strip mall with a single pain management clinic.
00:36:03The small staff of doctors were sourced from Craigslist and were compensated on a per-patient basis, given incentives for large and frequent prescriptions.
00:36:19Whatever ailments the patients came in with, the script the doctors were pushing was OxyContin, also known as Oxycodone.
00:36:28Synthesized from the opium poppy, prescribed for the treatment of moderate to severe pain, advertised a non-addictive substitute to morphine.
00:36:37Reality, highly addictive, binding to the same brain receptors as heroin.
00:36:46For me, it was like, felt like a big warm hug.
00:36:49I felt kind of invincible when I took it.
00:36:52But at some point, feeling good stopped and I turned into an addict.
00:36:57This stupid little pill has control of my life and there's nothing I can do about it.
00:37:08Many of these addicts were supporting their habit through pop-up pain clinics that soon became known as pill mills.
00:37:17A pharmacy clinic or doctor's office that dispenses hardcore narcotics without a legitimate medical need.
00:37:24Sometimes we even called them Doc in the box.
00:37:28They're heavy on advertising and light on service.
00:37:33You know, hey, come get your pills, come get your pills.
00:37:35Recreational drug dealers is what they were.
00:37:37It wasn't long before the lucrative business drew Jeff's brother Chris in.
00:37:42Their operation was a well-oiled machine designed for maximum efficiency with a constant stream of patients.
00:37:52Copycat pain clinics begin to pop up.
00:37:5789 in Broward County alone.
00:38:00Then Chris George makes a big move and invests in a 20,000 square foot property, creating the largest pill mill in the U.S.
00:38:12The American pain clinic, they were probably seeing in excess of 500 patients a day at $100 a pop.
00:38:24The line wraps around the building and the parking lot with an average doctor-patient interaction under four minutes.
00:38:31These guys had so many people coming through their doors that they actually gave the doctors a rubber stamp with their autograph on it.
00:38:38So they just, bam, stamped it and just sent people on their way.
00:38:42They had strippers working in the pain clinics.
00:38:45They had bodyguards in golf carts patrolling parking lots.
00:38:49Some of the doctors even carried guns because it was such a risky business dealing with all of these addicts.
00:38:55In the parking lot behind the strip club, they set up a mobile MRI unit.
00:39:10After a while, they just started giving people other people's MRIs because why do the test if you don't have to?
00:39:16You can just hand somebody a piece of film.
00:39:18The George brothers were obviously doctoring records and doing whatever they had to do in order to make the money.
00:39:24The George brothers were raking in the profits, making $40 million in two years.
00:39:31They were living a very lavish lifestyle.
00:39:38It's all about the money.
00:39:40It definitely has the same ear markings of, you know, an illegal and illicit drug trade.
00:39:45The George brothers are on their way to meet an associate, Robert Edie, at a vacant house in their upscale neighborhood.
00:39:57They suspect Edie is stealing from them.
00:40:03The bullet just misses Edie, and he continues to plead his innocence.
00:40:17The brothers eventually come around to a story and pay him $10,000 to keep silent about the incident.
00:40:36This is just like the Mexican drug cartel.
00:40:40The George brothers were the kingpins of the oxycodone drug trafficking.
00:40:45This erratic driver catches the attention of police and is forced off the road.
00:40:58Inside the car, oxycodone bottles cover the passenger seat.
00:41:11Nine out of ten George brothers patients are from out of state.
00:41:16There were so many people driving from West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, down to Florida to get their pills,
00:41:26that they actually nicknamed the stretch of I-75 Oxy Halley.
00:41:30There was a large number of overdose deaths that started taking place,
00:41:33and these people that were coming in from other states to source their drugs,
00:41:37and they would end up in car accidents or overdosing on the side of the road after they had been to the pain clinic.
00:41:43The rise of prescription drug overdose deaths catches national attention.
00:41:48And of the top doctors dispensing prescription painkillers, five of them are from American pain.
00:41:55And so the clinics become a target.
00:42:00Too many patients died. They weren't able to fly under the radar anymore.
00:42:06After months under surveillance, an FBI DEA task force decided to bring formal charges against Chris and Jeff George.
00:42:19On my command, we'll basically, we'll gear up, we'll line up, and we'll go ahead and knock an ounce and make entry on the clinic.
00:42:26Everybody sees here on the opposite, and we have the address.
00:42:29Group 13 has the entry tools.
00:42:31The rest of the guys, I'll tell you where you're going to fall in on the perimeter.
00:42:34Hands up, FBI!
00:42:38Hands up, FBI!
00:42:40DEA!
00:42:41DEA!
00:42:42DEA!
00:42:43Hands up, hands up!
00:42:47DEA!
00:42:48As the SWAT teams were breaking down the doors, the patients were also fighting with the receptionist,
00:42:56trying to get in so they could get that last script before the doors were closed.
00:43:00DEA!
00:43:01Come on back!
00:43:02DEA!
00:43:03Over their two-year run, the George brothers sold over 20 million Oxycontin pills.
00:43:12Prosecutors have traced over 50 overdosed deaths back to their clinics.
00:43:18Jeff George is sentenced to 15 and a half years.
00:43:22Chris George receives a reduced sentence for his testimony against some of his own physicians,
00:43:27and is serving a 14 year sentence.
00:43:30The crackdown sends a message to pill mills and over prescribers.
00:43:35From 2010 to 2011, the Oxycodone market decreased by 97% in Florida.
00:43:43But the opioids continue to be prescribed.
00:43:46In 2012, 259 million scripts are written, enough for every American adult to have a bottle.
00:43:54But the crackdown will also have severe consequences.
00:43:58The DEA, they hold these press conferences.
00:44:01We've taken this X number of pills off the street.
00:44:05We've arrested these doctors.
00:44:07Everybody's going to face justice.
00:44:09And of course, the thing that no one ever talks about is demand remains constant.
00:44:15So when you take away one source, those people that are inclined to addiction are going to turn to another source.
00:44:27Drug lords in Afghanistan and Mexico are poised to meet the demand.
00:44:32An epidemic is coming.
00:44:35Heroin.
00:44:45In Afghanistan, the war on terror rages on with an enemy fueled by the drug trade.
00:45:08Now the DEA joins the fight.
00:45:13The Drug Enforcement Administration, created by Nixon in 1973 to fight the federal government's war on drugs at home and abroad.
00:45:24DEA is the only agency in the world that can enter into hostile zones and develop an investigation.
00:45:32Loaded. There's a bunch of mags in here.
00:45:35It reads like hash down here.
00:45:37Yeah, you smell it.
00:45:40Oh, that's hash.
00:45:41The opium and heroin trade in Afghanistan is the principal source of funding for the Taliban's continued insurgency.
00:45:57At a bazaar in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, known for its drug trade.
00:46:01The man approaches a stall, looking to make a large purchase of high-quality opium.
00:46:16Jalalabad is the epicenter of heroin and opium exportation, well-known as hosting overt opium bazaars.
00:46:27One of Afghanistan's top drug lords, Haji Bajko, produces nearly 20% of the world's supply.
00:46:47But this isn't business as usual.
00:46:54The buyer's an undercover DEA agent.
00:46:57As we began to develop our investigations, a traveler named Haji Bajko was identified as the dominant trafficking figure in the entire southeast region of Afghanistan.
00:47:09Move across. Let's go.
00:47:10Move across. Let's go. In your element. Let's go.
00:47:11A team of DEA agents in full combat gear move into position.
00:47:15All right, hey. Tuck up against the wall.
00:47:18The agent signals payment has been made.
00:47:21Agents confiscate Bajko's ledgers.
00:47:44Those ledgers gave us a treasure trove of straight-up payments that were made to other traffickers, government officials.
00:47:54But most striking of all that were the payments to the Taliban in the amounts that well moved into the millions of dollars.
00:48:03The operation proves drug money is being used to finance the Taliban in their war against coalition forces.
00:48:10Now, Afghan heroin and opium was an enemy of the United States.
00:48:17The U.S. government makes a major policy shift, taking on drug traffickers in Afghanistan.
00:48:27And they give the DEA new ammunition by creating a new crime, narco-terrorism.
00:48:32Hoshky Bajko is one of the first convicted under the new law, created to pursue offenders who have one hand in drug trafficking and another in terror.
00:48:45The DEA always functions within the guidelines, restrictions, the policy mandates.
00:48:54It has been said that other agencies with different agendas will work with wily and corrupt figures within any given government.
00:49:05Does it happen?
00:49:06I'm sure it does.
00:49:07But it doesn't happen within DEA.
00:49:12The DEA and the CIA can often butt heads.
00:49:17The DEA wants to arrest drug kingpins or drug narco-traffickers.
00:49:23A lot of times these are precisely the people that the CIA might want to recruit to accomplish their loftier mission of keeping America safe from terrorists.
00:49:37No country has ever been as addicted to drugs from an economic standpoint as Afghanistan has been.
00:50:02How anyone will ever undo that is really hard to imagine.
00:50:06Haji Jumakan, an illiterate tribesman with 14 wives, 29 children, and a personal army of 1,500 men.
00:50:23He's also a founding member of the Taliban.
00:50:25Haji Jumakan was one of the world's leading heroin traffickers and supplied the Taliban with an enormous amount of weaponry.
00:50:34And he really was a principal financier of the Taliban.
00:50:41Workers test the new crop of raw opium for quality.
00:50:49This batch is grade A.
00:50:52This opium will produce two pounds of pure heroin.
00:50:55Street value in the U.S. over $100,000.
00:50:58Jumakan is now alleged to be on the DEA's target list.
00:51:07Agents work to deepen their relationship and gain access.
00:51:11One agent gets Khan to confide about a medical condition.
00:51:15Anjee Jumakan came to the United States believing he had a life-threatening form of cancer.
00:51:31Using his health as a bargaining chip, agents broker a trade.
00:51:45Medical care for intel.
00:51:48Am I going to die?
00:51:50But nothing is cancer, Mr. Khan.
00:51:52While a doctor prescribes a course of treatment, Jumakan is allegedly debriefed by both the DEA and the CIA.
00:51:59The mission, to gather intelligence from the drug lord on Islamic terrorist activity and his connection to the heroin trade.
00:52:06Somebody like Haji Jumakan for the agency would represent a confidential source and potential operative
00:52:13who could get to very high levels of the Taliban.
00:52:16They flipped him and he was put on a plane and sent back to Afghanistan in return for getting information about the Taliban.
00:52:29This is not the first time the CIA has been in bed with drug lords.
00:52:34In Cuba, the CIA forges an alliance with mob boss and heroin trafficker Santo Traficante to plot the assassination of Fidel Castro.
00:52:42In Laos, the agency aligns with local warlord and opium producer Vang Pao to fight communist insurgents.
00:52:51And again in Nicaragua, where cocaine helps fund an illegal CIA war.
00:52:56The CIA will take any person, no matter how morally, ethically, situationally challenged they may be.
00:53:13And if they think there's a use for that person, they will try to exploit that.
00:53:18The U.S. government allows Central Asia's largest drug trafficker, Haji Jumakan, to walk.
00:53:26Agents decide having a mole inside the Taliban's network is more valuable than stopping one of their money sources.
00:53:33Many people might look at drug traffickers as the villains.
00:53:39I think from the optic of the agency, the benefit of working with narco traffickers is they're largely apolitical.
00:53:48And they are very motivated by money and can be manipulated, potentially, to achieve a higher mission.
00:53:57Ultimately, we're going to have to look at the war on drugs in a different optic.
00:54:04It's an unwinnable war and always will be an exploitable tool that we can use.
00:54:11While U.S. casualties in Afghanistan grow, the Taliban insurgency gains strength by the day.
00:54:30And the pressure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden intensifies.
00:54:34The Taliban's strategic objectives made a lot of sense from the standpoint of wanting to grow their heroin empire
00:54:44as opposed to trying to retake Kabul, which was the political capital of the country.
00:54:50Farmers prepare bags of opium poppies to be shipped to a heroin lab.
00:54:55This field is owned by Haji Jumakan.
00:54:59For years, he's allegedly been a U.S. government informant.
00:55:02Even though much of the money he makes goes directly to America's enemies.
00:55:07Haji Jumakan was considered to be one of the closest traffickers to the Taliban.
00:55:12He was well known for moving these gigantic convoys of narcotics
00:55:16and moving huge amounts of weapons back into Afghanistan.
00:55:21With the Taliban now earning $300 million a year from opium,
00:55:26the Pentagon shifts course.
00:55:28Haji Jumakan is allegedly put on a kill list.
00:55:32And the DEA is assigned a new task.
00:55:36Something they don't normally do.
00:55:38Assist in an assassination.
00:55:41Jumakan is allegedly targeted by one of the go-to tactics in the war on terror,
00:55:46but rarely used in the war on drugs.
00:55:49A drone strike.
00:55:50A DEA agent calls Jumakan and urges him to meet.
00:56:08Unaware of the drone tracking him,
00:56:11Jumakan is lured out of his compound.
00:56:14But instead of setting him up for the kill,
00:56:30the DEA allegedly defies the Pentagon
00:56:32and puts Jumakan on the plane bound for Indonesia.
00:56:44We're set for the first six months of this year.
00:56:47And then we'll go even further up from there.
00:56:49But you have to give us time to make...
00:56:50The local police, working with the DEA, arrest him.
00:56:56Come on.
00:56:56Make it easy on yourself.
00:56:58Make it easy.
00:57:01Come on.
00:57:03Within minutes,
00:57:04he is put on a plane bound for the United States.
00:57:10Jumakan is charged with financing the Taliban
00:57:12under the new narco-terrorism law
00:57:14and faces a life sentence.
00:57:19The U.S. military's dimensional thinking
00:57:21has always been capture or kill.
00:57:24The law enforcement
00:57:25was not to focus on capture and kill,
00:57:28but investigate and prosecute.
00:57:29By removing those primary players,
00:57:32as we did,
00:57:33it slowed the trafficking industry down measurably.
00:57:38But there's always,
00:57:39always someone to take their place eventually.
00:57:42because unequivocally,
00:57:45wards always outweigh the risks
00:57:47in drug trafficking.
00:57:56While the Taliban's drug traffic
00:57:58is being disrupted,
00:57:59the U.S.-backed president,
00:58:01Hamid Karzai,
00:58:02is serving a second term
00:58:03as Afghanistan's president.
00:58:06The wind keeps the family's control
00:58:08and interests safe,
00:58:09including the president's brother,
00:58:10Ahmed Wali Karzai's drug distribution network
00:58:13in the South.
00:58:19Ahmed Wali Karzai
00:58:21is in his heavily fortified compound
00:58:23when a trusted security aide
00:58:25enters the home.
00:58:32The president's brother is dead.
00:58:34And the Taliban immediately take credit
00:58:43for the murder.
00:58:45After the American occupation of Afghanistan,
00:58:49working with known drug traffickers,
00:58:52including Wali Karzai,
00:58:53was simply a marriage of convenience for the CIA.
00:58:57It was a means to an end.
00:58:58When people look at these nuances
00:59:00and changes in the drug policy,
00:59:03sometimes we'll try to capture them.
00:59:06Sometimes we'll try to pick winners
00:59:08and maybe just tamp down the violence.
00:59:11Sometimes we'll become more aggressive.
00:59:12But really, it's like changing
00:59:14the deck chairs in the Titanic.
00:59:15Tonight, I can report to the American people
00:59:28and to the world
00:59:30that the United States has conducted
00:59:32an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,
00:59:35the leader of Al-Qaeda.
00:59:36The issue that people get wrong
00:59:48about the Afghan conflict
00:59:49is that they think it's all about religion
00:59:51and ideology.
00:59:52And I think that it's a lot more
00:59:54about drugs and money and power
00:59:55than anybody realizes.
00:59:569-11 happened,
01:00:15and the United States government
01:00:16actually invaded
01:00:18one of the largest opium producers
01:00:20in the world.
01:00:22And after more than 15 years
01:00:24of occupying, controlling,
01:00:27influencing Afghanistan,
01:00:29the production and monetary value
01:00:32of opium and heroin
01:00:34from Afghanistan
01:00:35has actually gone up
01:00:37every single year
01:00:38that the United States government
01:00:40has been there.
01:00:41The fundamental problem
01:00:42isn't the production of drugs.
01:00:45The fundamental problem
01:00:47is the demand for drugs.
01:00:54As the U.S. faces
01:01:03a growing opioid epidemic,
01:01:05the demand for heroin skyrockets.
01:01:12And just across the border,
01:01:15Mexican cartels
01:01:16are diversifying
01:01:17to meet the demand.
01:01:19The Sinaloa Federation
01:01:22had become
01:01:23one of the most powerful
01:01:24and geographically spread out
01:01:26cartels in Mexico.
01:01:29Mexico is a perfect example
01:01:31of what happens
01:01:32when you empower people
01:01:34who basically are
01:01:36total and completely
01:01:37beyond the pale
01:01:38of law-abiding citizens.
01:01:41That guy's doing
01:01:49something down there.
01:01:50I'm just going there.
01:01:51I'll see what's going on.
01:01:52Yeah, he's doing something.
01:01:52Do you got coordinates?
01:01:53North 1509-8319er.
01:01:57Agents from
01:01:58Immigration Customs Enforcement,
01:02:00also known as ICE,
01:02:02spot a small vessel
01:02:03coming up the coast
01:02:03from Colombia,
01:02:05bolting from
01:02:05the Mexican shoreline.
01:02:07Now he's going
01:02:07into the inlet.
01:02:09There's a whole crowd
01:02:10of people meeting him.
01:02:10On the boat
01:02:11are members
01:02:12of the Sinaloa cartel.
01:02:14They're unloading stuff.
01:02:16Stashed on board,
01:02:18pure cocaine.
01:02:20One of the challenges
01:02:21when a large organization
01:02:22like the Sinaloa Federation
01:02:24expands
01:02:24is to establish logistics,
01:02:27to establish a supply chain,
01:02:29and also local commanders
01:02:30to make sure
01:02:30that they maintain
01:02:31the integrity
01:02:32of that newfound territory.
01:02:35They're unloading fuel barrels.
01:02:37Yeah.
01:02:37Cartel middlemen
01:02:38unload the product.
01:02:40All the fuel barrels
01:02:42are off the ship.
01:02:44Overseeing the operation,
01:02:45Arturo Beltran Leyva,
01:02:47nicknamed
01:02:47the Boss of Bosses,
01:02:49is a Topsin Oloa enforcer.
01:02:51The coke is buried
01:02:56below fish and ice
01:02:57and loaded
01:02:57onto commercial trucks.
01:03:00Beltran Leyva
01:03:01radios
01:03:01Mexican border patrol agents
01:03:03on the cartel payroll,
01:03:05alerting them
01:03:05the trucks
01:03:06are on the move,
01:03:07ensuring safe passage
01:03:08across the border
01:03:09to the United States.
01:03:12Chapo built
01:03:13the perfect
01:03:13vertically integrated
01:03:15enterprise
01:03:15where you control
01:03:17where you control
01:03:17your product
01:03:18all the way
01:03:19from the ground
01:03:19to the marketplace.
01:03:23One of the most
01:03:24fascinating things
01:03:25about the relationship
01:03:26that Mexican cartels
01:03:28have with
01:03:28American distributors
01:03:30is that most Americans
01:03:32have absolutely
01:03:33no idea
01:03:34what is going on
01:03:35right under their noses.
01:03:37You could be driving
01:03:38on any major highway
01:03:39and see an 18-wheeler
01:03:41right next to you
01:03:42loaded with illegal drugs
01:03:44moving across the country.
01:03:45The end point,
01:03:47the Flores Brothers
01:03:48Chicago operation
01:03:49who distributes
01:03:50the product
01:03:51to the streets
01:03:51where the price
01:03:53will have increased
01:03:5415 times
01:03:55to over $35,000 a kilo.
01:03:59And the Flores Brothers
01:04:00were wholesalers
01:04:01in a sense
01:04:01that they were getting
01:04:02product directly
01:04:03from the Sinaloa organization
01:04:05and then they were
01:04:06distributing it
01:04:07to dealers.
01:04:08They had houses rented
01:04:09that they just packed
01:04:10with money.
01:04:13As profits soar,
01:04:15one of El Chapo's
01:04:16lieutenants,
01:04:17Archero Beltran Leyva
01:04:18and his four brothers
01:04:19decide to go out
01:04:20on their own.
01:04:22The Beltran Leyvas
01:04:22thought that they
01:04:23would manage operations
01:04:24better.
01:04:25They had an issue
01:04:25with all that money
01:04:26coming in
01:04:27and not getting enough
01:04:27of a piece of the pie
01:04:28and that was enough
01:04:29impetus for them
01:04:30to go out on their own.
01:04:33El Chapo's son
01:04:34has been released
01:04:35from prison.
01:04:37But soon after,
01:04:39Beltran Leyva's brother
01:04:40is suddenly arrested
01:04:41by Mexican police.
01:04:42and he suspects
01:04:45El Chapo engineered
01:04:46a deal
01:04:47with the authorities.
01:04:51Now it's Beltran Leyva's turn.
01:04:53He has the dismembered
01:04:54body parts
01:04:55of El Chapo's
01:04:55militiamen
01:04:56delivered to his enemy.
01:05:01El Chapo
01:05:02firebombs
01:05:03a Beltran Leyva
01:05:04safe house.
01:05:05The pattern
01:05:09of violence
01:05:09continues
01:05:10as the rivals
01:05:10try to one-up
01:05:11each other.
01:05:15To show
01:05:16who is the most powerful,
01:05:18who is the most capable
01:05:19of inciting fear.
01:05:24Then Beltran Leyva
01:05:26gets personal.
01:05:2715 assassins
01:05:34opened fire
01:05:35in a parking lot.
01:05:36One of the victims
01:05:37is El Chapo's
01:05:3922-year-old son.
01:05:46Now the civil war
01:05:48is on.
01:05:48116 people
01:05:58are killed
01:05:58over the next month.
01:06:01The surge in violence
01:06:03puts Beltran Leyva
01:06:04on the run.
01:06:07And the Mexican military
01:06:09reportedly
01:06:10placed a $2 billion
01:06:11bounty on his head.
01:06:13This is an indication
01:06:15of the level
01:06:16of insanity
01:06:17and violence
01:06:18that takes place
01:06:19in Mexico
01:06:20as a result
01:06:20of the drug war.
01:06:22They're not fighting
01:06:23about anything else
01:06:24but the money
01:06:24that's being made
01:06:25in drugs.
01:06:26So the drug war
01:06:28creates this level
01:06:29of violence.
01:06:31Once the killing
01:06:32starts,
01:06:33it's like
01:06:33we've seen it
01:06:34in mafia movies.
01:06:36You kill one of mine,
01:06:37I kill three of yours.
01:06:38I kill three of yours,
01:06:39you kill six of mine.
01:06:41And the level
01:06:41of violence
01:06:42and killing
01:06:43just keeps upping
01:06:44and upping
01:06:44and upping.
01:06:45The Flores brothers
01:06:46are caught
01:06:47in the middle
01:06:47as the two cartels
01:06:49go to war.
01:06:50They decide
01:06:51their only move
01:06:52is to work
01:06:52with the DEA,
01:06:54allowing their calls
01:06:55with El Chapo
01:06:56to be wiretapped
01:06:57in exchange
01:06:57for protection.
01:07:00Anybody's gonna be terrified
01:07:01when you're confronted
01:07:02with that level
01:07:02of violence.
01:07:03You figure,
01:07:04I'm gonna walk out
01:07:04and I'm gonna get shot
01:07:05and I'm gonna get killed.
01:07:06What happened
01:07:07with the Flores brothers
01:07:08is they had
01:07:09no good options.
01:07:10Their only option
01:07:11was,
01:07:12as far as they could see,
01:07:13to work with the DEA
01:07:14and hope
01:07:15that you're gonna get
01:07:15protected
01:07:16by the government.
01:07:26An informant
01:07:27tips off
01:07:27the Mexican Marines
01:07:28to Arturo Beltran
01:07:30Leyva's location.
01:07:31The Marines
01:08:01cover the bloody corpse
01:08:02in pesos
01:08:02and pose Beltran Leyva
01:08:05for the press.
01:08:09As a final show of force,
01:08:11El Chapo sends
01:08:12a severed head
01:08:13to Beltran Leyva's tomb.
01:08:18Sinaloa
01:08:19is now poised
01:08:20to take over
01:08:21and become
01:08:21the most powerful cartel
01:08:23because they've got
01:08:24the police
01:08:25doing their dirty work
01:08:26for them.
01:08:26It's not an uncommon strategy
01:08:30used in war
01:08:31to use the enemy
01:08:33of your enemy
01:08:34to advance your interests.
01:08:36We do it in Iraq,
01:08:37we do it in Afghanistan,
01:08:38we're doing it now
01:08:39in Syria.
01:08:42El Chapo is now
01:08:43one of the world's
01:08:44most powerful drug lords
01:08:45and also
01:08:47one of the world's
01:08:48most wanted men.
01:08:4938 years after the war
01:09:14on drugs began,
01:09:15there's a major push
01:09:18for one of its biggest targets
01:09:19to become legalized
01:09:21in America.
01:09:29DEA agents
01:09:30in full combat gear
01:09:32descend from a helicopter
01:09:33and touch down
01:09:34on a farm.
01:09:36The weed-like plants
01:09:38are cut
01:09:38and confiscated.
01:09:39This is marijuana
01:09:47also known as weed
01:09:50offering a mind-altering
01:09:53euphoric high.
01:09:55Primary psychoactive element
01:09:56tetrahydrocannabinol
01:09:58or THC.
01:10:02Despite the federal government
01:10:04classifying marijuana
01:10:05as a Schedule I
01:10:06illegal drug,
01:10:08the cannabis market
01:10:08is now worth
01:10:09an estimated
01:10:10$7 billion.
01:10:12It was criminalized
01:10:14in the early
01:10:1420th century.
01:10:18It was all about
01:10:19the weed
01:10:20with roots in hell
01:10:21and with this
01:10:23huge propaganda
01:10:24that was built up
01:10:26around marijuana.
01:10:27This harmless-looking
01:10:28cigarette is cloaked
01:10:29in many innocent disguises.
01:10:32But light the match.
01:10:33Inhale the smoke
01:10:34and it becomes
01:10:35an invitation
01:10:36to your own murder.
01:10:38through the 1930s,
01:10:4440s,
01:10:45and 50s
01:10:45government propaganda
01:10:47claimed that marijuana
01:10:49destroyed the human spirit.
01:10:51It made young women
01:10:52into fools and whores
01:10:53and turned men
01:10:54into rapists.
01:10:55They lied to us
01:11:00about this plant.
01:11:02You smoked it
01:11:02and you suddenly said,
01:11:04wait a minute now,
01:11:05this stuff isn't so bad.
01:11:06I don't have any desire
01:11:08to go out and rape anybody.
01:11:09I don't even want
01:11:10to get into a fight.
01:11:11ending marijuana prohibition
01:11:17is incredibly beneficial
01:11:18for everybody in society
01:11:19except for the entities
01:11:21who have been making money
01:11:22off of its prohibition
01:11:23for the last 70 years.
01:11:25Law enforcement,
01:11:26private prisons,
01:11:27pharmaceutical companies.
01:11:29all of them,
01:11:34their business models
01:11:35are predicated
01:11:36on marijuana being illegal.
01:11:41On average,
01:11:42700,000 Americans
01:11:43are arrested every year
01:11:45on marijuana charges.
01:11:46Colorado becomes
01:11:55the first state
01:11:56to legalize
01:11:57recreational marijuana use.
01:11:59John's first purchase
01:12:00is going to be
01:12:01an indica strain.
01:12:03This veteran
01:12:04of the war in Iraq
01:12:05will make one of the
01:12:06first legal marijuana purchases
01:12:07to treat his PTSD.
01:12:10$59.74.
01:12:14Very, very much.
01:12:16I got some legal weed.
01:12:22I'm in line
01:12:23to buy something legal.
01:12:24Let's do this.
01:12:26That's all I'm saying.
01:12:26Let's do this.
01:12:35Now legal in 28 states,
01:12:38legalization is having
01:12:40major implications
01:12:41for the Mexican cartels.
01:12:43There you are.
01:12:45These are your jeans.
01:12:46The Mexican cartels
01:12:47are going to be
01:12:47a very big deal.
01:12:47If you go to Mexico,
01:12:54then the single biggest threat
01:12:56that the cartels face
01:12:57at the moment
01:12:57to their business
01:12:58is legalization.
01:13:01You have a bag now for you?
01:13:03You have to make it
01:13:03rock and roll.
01:13:04They now face
01:13:04a very powerful competitor
01:13:06in the form
01:13:06of legal businesses.
01:13:08And if you go
01:13:08to a state like Colorado,
01:13:09where the stuff's been legal
01:13:10now for some years,
01:13:12it's an incredibly
01:13:12sophisticated business.
01:13:13it's really professional.
01:13:20The Sinaloa cartel
01:13:22doesn't do chocolate.
01:13:25If you can take
01:13:26this gigantic market
01:13:27out of the hands
01:13:28of criminals
01:13:29and put it in the hands
01:13:31of law-abiding,
01:13:32tax-paying people,
01:13:34that's much more
01:13:35attractive to the government.
01:13:36And ultimately,
01:13:37it leads to a market
01:13:38which is better regulated,
01:13:39safer,
01:13:40and far less criminal.
01:13:47Unlike the legal operations
01:13:49in the north,
01:13:50the Sinaloa kingpin,
01:13:52El Chapo,
01:13:53operates in the shadows.
01:13:55Over the last decade,
01:13:57he's played an elaborate game
01:13:59of cat and mouse,
01:14:01always staying one step ahead
01:14:02of the authorities.
01:14:03intelligence gathered
01:14:11from informants
01:14:12and wiretaps
01:14:13leads authorities
01:14:14to this seaside condo.
01:14:17Without a single shot fired,
01:14:21El Chapo
01:14:22is finally captured.
01:14:24He's sent to Mexico's
01:14:33most secure prison.
01:14:36The truth of the matter
01:14:38is that the huge amounts
01:14:41of money that are generated
01:14:42by the illegal drug traffic world
01:14:45has corrupted law enforcement
01:14:47and the prison authorities.
01:14:50Suddenly, Chapo's guys
01:14:51come along and say,
01:14:52well, here's 150 grand,
01:14:54200 grand to look the other way
01:14:55while we build this tunnel
01:14:57or you're going to die.
01:14:59And, you know,
01:15:00people are going to take the money.
01:15:01The Sinaloa cartel
01:15:13digs a mile-long tunnel
01:15:15directly to El Chapo's cell.
01:15:18Looked like he's going
01:15:19to take a shower
01:15:20and disappear
01:15:21into a tunnel
01:15:22that had a motorcycle in it.
01:15:24next thing you know,
01:15:31Chapo disappears
01:15:32and he's gone.
01:15:33While in hiding,
01:15:46El Chapo makes a bold move,
01:15:48persuading Mexican soap opera star
01:15:49Kate Del Castillo
01:15:51to introduce him
01:15:51to actor Sean Penn.
01:15:54The hope,
01:15:55a collaboration
01:15:56on his life story.
01:15:57But Penn and Del Castillo
01:16:10don't realize
01:16:10they're being watched.
01:16:12Mexican intelligence
01:16:13is tracking
01:16:14their every move.
01:16:15After months
01:16:24of meticulous tracking,
01:16:25the Mexican military
01:16:27zero in
01:16:27on a coastal town
01:16:28in Sinaloa,
01:16:30El Chapo's home state.
01:16:37Officials spot a van
01:16:38they believe
01:16:39to belong to the cartel,
01:16:40picking up a large
01:16:42late-night order
01:16:42of tacos.
01:16:44The hunch,
01:16:44the tacos
01:16:45are for El Chapo.
01:16:50With the alleged support
01:16:52of the U.S. Delta Force,
01:16:53the Mexican Special Forces
01:16:55carry out
01:16:56Operation Black Swan.
01:17:11¡Vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:13¡Vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:14¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:15¡Vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:16¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:16¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:17¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:18¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:18¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:19¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:20¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:22¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:22¡Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos!
01:17:23Let's go!
01:17:37Come on!
01:17:39Come on!
01:17:41Look at the stairs!
01:17:45Come on!
01:17:47Come on!
01:17:49Come on!
01:17:53Look at the doors!
01:17:59There's another stairs there!
01:18:01There's another stairs there!
01:18:03There's another stairs there!
01:18:07Up!
01:18:09Up!
01:18:11Up!
01:18:13Up!
01:18:15Up!
01:18:23Five cartel gunmen are dead.
01:18:25But El Chapo escapes through a hidden tunnel in a closet connected to the city's sewer system.
01:18:31He stole a car and he took off.
01:18:35When they caught him, he said, look, I'm going to give you money.
01:18:39I'll give you jobs.
01:18:41I'll take good care of all of you.
01:18:43But the Mexican soldiers refuse the bribe and take Joaquin Guzman into custody.
01:18:49With evidence from the Flores brothers wiretapped calls, El Chapo is extradited to New York.
01:18:59It's the most famous jail in the world.
01:19:01El Chapo is now in the most famous jail in the world.
01:19:05The Metropolitan Correctional Center.
01:19:07The Criminal Hilton.
01:19:08To bow down before the almighty power of the American criminal justice system.
01:19:13And in that building, you have every single criminal of every kind of stripe.
01:19:19From terrorists, to rogue CIA agents, to drug lords, to mafia bosses.
01:19:31And in his absence, the Sinaloa Cartel continues to operate.
01:19:38The U.S. government, when it makes a seizure or takes out a notorious, high-profile drug trafficker,
01:19:46it's never eliminating the problem.
01:19:48It's just giving a promotion to somebody else.
01:19:53It's great for the American public appetite for these kind of super villains
01:20:00to have guys like El Chapo or Pablo Escobar to point the finger and say, this is a bad guy.
01:20:06You lock Chapo up, you lock Escobar up, you kill him, whatever you do.
01:20:10Somebody else is going to be there to take their place.
01:20:12Maybe 30 guys are there to take their place.
01:20:14It doesn't stop anything.
01:20:17It just gives the public another anti-hero, a bad guy to focus on.
01:20:239-1-1, where's your emergency?
01:20:33I need an ambulance by the way. My son just overdosed on Helen.
01:20:37What's your head?
01:20:38Please!
01:20:39What's your...
01:20:40He's unconscious.
01:20:42Please, hurry!
01:20:43I think in future when people look back at the war on drugs, they'll see one of the great public policy failures of our time.
01:21:00So much money has been spent and so much violence done, all for such little gain.
01:21:15America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.
01:21:21The U.S. government has always had a hypocritical relationship to drugs.
01:21:29On the one hand, it uses drug dealers as part of its foreign policy.
01:21:34What will you do when someone offers you drugs?
01:21:37Let them go!
01:21:40And then domestically, it has built up an entire system of social control around the use of these drugs.
01:21:51The war on drugs is the war on poor people.
01:21:55It's a means of dehumanizing large segments of the American population.
01:22:01Some think there won't be room for them in jail. We'll make room.
01:22:10The war on drugs has achieved none of its ends.
01:22:15But the one thing it has done is increased the power of its institutions and the laws of the state.
01:22:22Its powers to search Americans' homes, to do surveillance.
01:22:27That is the only tangible victory of the war on drugs is to have made the state stronger.
01:22:33You will be put away and put away for good.
01:22:36Three strikes and you are out.
01:22:40The country was given a choice and what happened was, it doubled down on the war on drugs.
01:22:57We have spent trillions of dollars over the decades. Trillions.
01:23:01With no positive results.
01:23:03Walk backwards. Backwards. Backwards. Stop.
01:23:06The only thing it created was mass incarceration.
01:23:18No individual in the United States can say, thank you, America, for your war on drugs. You saved my child.
01:23:24Nobody really wants to be addicted to drugs. It's a terrible way of life.
01:23:31Law enforcement is not the answer.
01:23:33The only solution is to treat it as a social and health problem.
01:23:38People who get in trouble with drugs need to be helped. They have a medical condition.
01:23:45And I think a lot of things really need to change.
01:23:48Drug use is not a war you win.
01:23:50The reality is that no one in power ever took this war on drugs seriously. They used it for political purposes. It's an ugly truth.
01:24:01Drugs are menacing our society. They're killing our children.
01:24:05I say that legalization is just another word for surrender. And surrender is not in our vocabulary.
01:24:13We have just begun the job. And we do not intend to stop until we have finished.
01:24:19When we fight drugs, we fight the war on terror.
01:24:22I think it's politically very difficult for politicians to talk sense about drugs while they're still in office.
01:24:34And what we're seeing is a growing number of people who come out and submit that the war is failing.
01:24:39I signed a bill that made the problem worse. We had a lot of people locked up for way too long.
01:24:46And that was overdone. We were wrong about that.
01:24:48The President of the United States.
01:24:56Finding sitting presidents who are still in office, who still have the power to change things, is much harder.
01:25:01To protect our citizens, I have directed the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, along with the Department of State and the Director of National Intelligence,
01:25:11to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation.
01:25:21The President of the United States.
01:25:26Bellum se ipsum alit. And it translates as War feeds itself.
01:25:32Once you create the enemy, once you build the institutions, it will keep perpetuating itself forever.
01:25:45itself forever.
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