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Após o 11 de Setembro, a guerra ao terror e a guerra às drogas passam a se cruzar. No Afeganistão, o irmão de Hamid Karzai é supostamente um grande traficante de heroína, enquanto o país se torna o principal fornecedor mundial da droga. Terroristas passam a financiar suas atividades com dinheiro do narcotráfico, ao mesmo tempo em que surge o primeiro supercartel mexicano e El Chapo entra em fuga.
A indústria farmacêutica se torna uma grande fornecedora de substâncias viciantes, enquanto os americanos passam a questionar se a guerra às drogas realmente vale a pena.
A indústria farmacêutica se torna uma grande fornecedora de substâncias viciantes, enquanto os americanos passam a questionar se a guerra às drogas realmente vale a pena.
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00:03:05instalações do regime de taliban em afganistão
00:03:23america já sofrendo um catástrofico
00:03:27a cia
00:03:30tomou as uma falha de inteligência e tomou a guerra
00:03:33em afganistão as que era o seu filho
00:03:38há muita pressão na cia
00:03:43para encontrar e capturar bin laden
00:03:49foi a missão da cia e eles queriam fazer isso certo
00:03:58dois american hercules c-130
00:04:01aircraft take off from an airbase in uzbekistan
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00:04:26A C.I.A. just dropped 19 1⁄2 ton crates full of weapons and supplies.
00:04:35On the ground to receive the drop, a C.I.A. backed insurgent army.
00:04:43Led by this man.
00:04:47Hamid Karzai.
00:04:49Western educated, sworn enemy of the Taliban.
00:04:53In the 1980s, Karzai joined the C.I.A. backed war against Soviet invaders, fighting alongside fellow Mujahideen Osama bin
00:05:01Laden.
00:05:02He's been a C.I.A. asset ever since.
00:05:06The C.I.A. wanted to get our guy positioned in power.
00:05:11Someone that we could work with, someone 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.
00:05:37But on a mountain pass, they're ambushed.
00:05:56They're ambushed, and the agency doesn't know if Karzai's alive or dead.
00:06:01Okay, what's the importance?
00:06:03North 1506, West 8319.
00:06:06At least 10 people.
00:06:08Signal down, we've lost visual.
00:06:09Signal down, we've lost visual.
00:06:13Are you there?
00:06:13Do you copy?
00:06:14Do you copy?
00:06:16Do you copy?
00:06:16Do you copy?
00:06:16Do you copy?
00:06:16Karzai, are you there?
00:06:18Please respond.
00:06:22Hello?
00:06:23Hello?
00:06:24Hello?
00:06:24It's Harid!
00:06:25Yes!
00:06:26We are victorious!
00:06:27Yes!
00:06:28Yes!
00:06:29Yes!
00:06:29Karzai's men have prevailed.
00:06:42Hamid Karzai has survived one of the greatest challenges of his life.
00:06:47And the American-led coalition installs Karzai as Afghanistan's interim leader.
00:06:54We got our guy in power.
00:06:57We got the lesser of all the evils in power.
00:07:03As he secures his grip on power, one of his first acts as president is to give control
00:07:09of 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.
00:07:34There'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
00:07:53of tantamount concern.
00:08:00At a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghan security forces are on high alert for car bombs.
00:08:18But when they stop a truck and search the vehicle...
00:08:33They find a huge stash of heroin.
00:08:36They find a huge stash of heroin.
00:08:51It's the brother of the president.
00:08:58I think that the Karzai family put one son in politics.
00:09:02They put one son in business.
00:09:04They put one son in a mosque.
00:09:06And 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.
00:09:30Achmed Wali Karzai, newly appointed ruler of the south, orders the truck to be given safe passage.
00:09:39Achmed Wali Karzai, the role he played in the drug trade was to provide protection, to provide political cover for
00:09:48major drug traffickers.
00:09:49He was the guy that made sure those trucks got through.
00:10:00The 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
00:10:23will change the face of the domestic war on drugs.
00:10:29Ladies 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.
00:10:52We've seen the enemy in the murder of thousands of innocent unsuspecting people.
00:10:59They recognize no barrier of morality.
00:11:02They have no conscience.
00:11:05These terrorists must be pursued.
00:11:08They must be defeated.
00:11:10And 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.
00:11:28Actually, some of his main provisions are more often used for drug prosecutions.
00:11:34Police 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-peak warrants.
00:11:45Less than 1% will have to do with terrorism.
00:11:48And 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
00:11:57drugs.
00:12:02Super Bowl XXXVI.
00:12:0486 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
00:12:15anti-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 helped kids learn how to kill.
00:12:27I 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
00:12:38mentality 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.
00:12:55The irony of this is that throughout history, the U.S. government has been entrenched and at least peripherally involved
00:13:06with the drug trade to a much greater degree than any teenager experimenting with drugs in the United States is
00:13:14ever going to be.
00:13:32While America is preoccupied with a drug-fueled war on terror, right at our doorstep, another drug war is about
00:13:41to create the most powerful and violent cartels in the United States.
00:13:5131 years after America declared the war on drugs, the U.S. now consumes as much as 40% of
00:13:59the world's cocaine and spends approximately $25 billion on marijuana.
00:14:10Being close to the world's biggest consumer of illegal drugs has been a good thing for the Mexican cartels, not
00:14:15for Mexico itself, but for its criminal organizations. This is a gift.
00:14:21A decade after NAFTA helped turn Mexico into the key transshipment point for the North American drug trade, four major
00:14:29Mexican cartels battle for control of the border.
00:14:32The most dominant is the Juarez Cartel.
00:14:37Once led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, his mysterious death led to a power struggle for the most valuable turf in
00:14:45the drug game.
00:14:46The critical border town, Ciudad Juarez, directly across from El Paso.
00:14:53When you dig into it underneath the surface, that's when you started seeing how it really worked and there was
00:14:59a lot of pretty ugly stuff going on.
00:15:03U.S. law enforcement are about to infiltrate the cartel, blurring the lines between good guys and bad.
00:15:10U.S. law enforcement are about to infiltrate the port.
00:15:20Crossing 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.
00:15:39Ele sabia que, mais ou menos, ele iria ser arrestado ou matado.
00:15:46Lalo entra para a U.S. Customs e Border Patrol office
00:15:50para oferecer serviços como informante.
00:15:55Lalo acredita que ele vai ter uma proteção do governo federal e da U.S. governo.
00:16:15I understand you have some information.
00:16:20Can you protect me?
00:16:21Depends.
00:16:26After extensive vetting, Lalo begins to talk.
00:16:32Why are you going to call the cartel?
00:16:44He makes a shocking claim.
00:16:46Numerous Mexican state police officers are also working for the Juarez cartel.
00:16:53Lalo, he's typical of so many of these rats.
00:16:58It's a matter of survival.
00:16:59It's a matter of playing both ends towards the middle to protect yourself.
00:17:05It's a very dangerous world and a very violent world.
00:17:10U.S. Customs agents register Lalo as informant number 913
00:17:15and put him to work undercover inside the cartel.
00:17:29Lalo is heading to a cartel safe house for a meeting with a small-time drug smuggler,
00:17:35Fernando Reyes.
00:17:42Reyes is looking for help moving a half ton of marijuana across the border.
00:17:48But the cartel leaders are not happy Reyes is operating on their turf.
00:17:54While Lalo pretends to facilitate the deal,
00:17:57two Juarez cops on the cartel payroll
00:18:02emerge from another room.
00:18:23They ripped off a cord from a lamp and are trying to choke him to death.
00:18:27This guy's just not dying.
00:18:29They said, we need your help.
00:18:42Finally killed him by hitting him in the back of the head and broke his neck.
00:18:57Lalo has recorded the entire murder
00:19:00and turns it over to his Customs and Border Control handlers.
00:19:04There were rumors about Mexican law enforcement.
00:19:07You know, people assumed that they were corrupt.
00:19:09But 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.
00:19:25Mexican cops would go out and carry out a hit.
00:19:30And then they'll come back in a police uniform a couple of hours later and investigate the murder they just
00:19:34committed.
00:19:35That's how it worked.
00:19:36They call it the color of law, right?
00:19:39When are you a cartel?
00:19:41When are you law enforcement?
00:19:43There is no lying, really.
00:19:45It's all one fluid thing.
00:19:47In Mexico, this is 1%.
00:19:50Serious crimes end up in any kind of conviction.
00:19:54When the U.S. Customs agents tell their bosses in Washington about the murder, they receive a directive.
00:19:59They're going to use it.
00:20:00Continue working with Lalo.
00:20:03They had so much invested in this case.
00:20:05They were trying to get after the big fish in the Juarez cartel.
00:20:09And so he went back and he participated in subsequent murders.
00:20:12And he even told them ahead of time that he was opening up the house, he was going to have
00:20:16a barbecue.
00:20:17And they would bring someone over and torture and murder them there.
00:20:22They were making deals with the devil.
00:20:26Because 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.
00:20:51January 2004.
00:20:54The 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.
00:21:10The 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.
00:21:31This is a really tragic and a really dark foretelling of what we would start to see with the drug
00:21:37war 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.
00:21:58Lalo will escape all prosecution.
00:22:02The 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.
00:22:37Two hundred Mexican soldiers are on their way to make a high-profile arrest.
00:22:43They intend to nab an elusive drug lord popular with the locals.
00:22:51So popular they've already tipped him off.
00:22:57And he's long gone.
00:23:02Joaquin Guzman Lorera.
00:23:04Nicknamed El Chapo or Shorty.
00:23:06By age nine, he's already got his start in the drug trade and then rises to become the most powerful
00:23:12drug lord in the Western Hemisphere.
00:23:14Head of the infamous Sinaloa cartel and known to carry a gold diamond encrusted handgun.
00:23:20His net worth will grow to over an estimated billion dollars.
00:23:23Earning him a spot on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.
00:23:28He's not the stereotypical drug lord who dresses flashy.
00:23:33He's a jeans and baseball cap kind of guy.
00:23:39He's a very romanticized figure.
00:23:41In Mexico, you have songs that are written about him.
00:23:45You have entire communities that are rooting for him.
00:23:51Still unknown to most of the world, but ready to make his mark,
00:23:55El Chapo's strategy is to take out the cartels that control the eastern and western border crossings
00:24:01and build a power base before taking the geographically critical Juarez cartel.
00:24:15To the land of heaven here.
00:24:20El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel wants to corner the market by destroying the competition.
00:24:26One major competitor, the Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix Organization,
00:24:32They control much of the border crossings to the west with a distribution route from Baja, California to San Diego.
00:24:40Both El Chapo and the DEA have a common interest in their demise.
00:24:45At 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 Tijuana cartel.
00:25:09Chapo's organization whacked one of the Tijuana organization's top guys.
00:25:14In return, Chapo's brother got murdered in prison.
00:25:18It was like revenge killings. You killed one of mine, I'm gonna go kill one of yours.
00:25:28A man walks into a DEA field office in Tijuana, Mexico.
00:25:35This is Humberto Loya Castro.
00:25:39Sinaloa cartel lawyer and DEA informant.
00:25:43He'll meet secretly with the DEA on 50 occasions, providing critical information on drug trafficking and other organized crime across
00:25:53Mexico.
00:25:55The DEA is at the mercy of their informants.
00:26:00Chapo's lawyer was using DEA to do Chapo's dirty work for him.
00:26:07Castro tells the DEA he has vital information about Sinaloa's rival, the Tijuana cartel.
00:26:14If you want to send a message, you want to kill a pilot from your agent, so that we, Daniela,
00:26:23the city,
00:26:25not only Daniela, they are enviating a sicar.
00:26:33They call him the monster.
00:26:36He asked my friend to help you to find the white people correct.
00:26:42The power of these cartels is not to be reckoned with.
00:26:49There is no line that they will cross.
00:26:52DEA agents have been killed in Mexico before.
00:26:57The DEA acts fast against the threat, securing its personnel,
00:27:02then launches a preemptive strike against the Tijuana cartel.
00:27:12They're working with one cartel to take out another cartel.
00:27:18It's almost like moving chess pieces around.
00:27:24The DEA cracks down on the Tijuana cartel, leaving an opening for their rivals.
00:27:32The Sinaloa cartels now coming for Tijuana's turf.
00:27:38And Loya Castro's information plays a critical role.
00:27:44There's certain people in the drug war, and they play in this gray area.
00:27:48They're the informants, and the assets, and the snitches.
00:27:50And they can play one side against the other.
00:27:52They play in this narrow bridge that's incredibly dangerous.
00:27:57They would snitch on their rivals.
00:27:59In exchange, the leadership of this organization was provided essential immunity from prosecution,
00:28:05and they would be left alone and allowed to operate.
00:28:12But to truly dominate the drug trade,
00:28:14it will come down to controlling the entire supply chain to the streets of America.
00:28:19So El Chapo sets his sights on Chicago.
00:28:26A day's drive from 70% of the U.S. population, Chicago's a transportation hub crossed by seven major interstate
00:28:34highways with extensive rail and air travel infrastructure.
00:28:42We saw Chicago being a larger and larger hub in order to move drugs into other parts of the country.
00:28:55This is Chicago's 22nd Ward.
00:28:59A heavily Hispanic neighborhood where Mexican cartel members can blend in.
00:29:04El Chapo's drawn to these two brothers.
00:29:10The 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.
00:29:25Chapo arranges a meeting at his mountaintop compound to talk expansion with the two brothers, who have deep roots in
00:29:31Mexico.
00:29:34Trust is only one component of making the deal.
00:29:37El Chapo wants to know, can they deliver?
00:29:42The brothers turn over.
00:29:43The brothers turn over their books.
00:29:45They show a strong hold on the market.
00:29:48The potential for a solid investment.
00:29:51El Chapo.
00:29:52El Chapo.
00:29:56Having 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.
00:30:06When El Chapo's just getting started, he's looking to expand his control of the border.
00:30:12So 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 Cetas.
00:30:31These 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.
00:30:50That 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,
00:30:59to show our commitment to taking over this piece of territory.
00:31:03That really was the epicenter for the expansion of the levels of violence
00:31:08that we would come to see in future years in the drug war.
00:31:12The cartel's extreme violence becomes political fuel.
00:31:19Eight days after his inauguration, President Felipe Calderon echoes Richard Nixon
00:31:24declaring Mexico's war on drugs.
00:31:27But 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
00:31:58escalated.
00:31:58Despite Calderon's declaration of a war on drugs, Sinaloa persists.
00:32:06The 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.
00:32:23After going for the border crossings in the west and east, Chapo's Sinaloa cartel has come for the ultimate prize.
00:32:32Controlled by the most powerful and strategically located cartel in the country.
00:32:37Sinaloa was basically killing off the police force that was loyal to the Juarez cartel.
00:32:46They started picking them off one at a time, trying to one up each other to show who is the
00:32:51most powerful, who is the most capable of inciting fear.
00:32:56The control over the police force was really the key to taking Juarez.
00:33:08The Sinaloa cartel is victorious, earning El Chapo exclusive control of the border crossings.
00:33:15But back in the U.S., the Mexican cartels are about to face powerful new competitors.
00:33:23Legal narcotics.
00:33:26With deadly consequences.
00:33:28The actor Heath Ledger was found dead today.
00:33:35The three-year investigation into the possible prescription drug abuse by talk show host Rush Limbaugh has ended in a
00:33:41plea 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
00:34:08on the wrong problem.
00:34:10We're all concerned about illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin, but they're diverting attention to the real problem, the big
00:34:19elephant in the room,
00:34:20which is that we're legally killing you and we're getting away with it and nobody's watching.
00:34:26The 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
00:34:49potential 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.
00:35:09In 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,
00:35:29before becoming game changers in the drug industry,
00:35:33dispensing thousands of pills a day, all in the name of pain management,
00:35:37and wrapped in a doctor's stamp of approval.
00:35:42The George brothers really exploited this loophole in pain management clinics,
00:35:49because 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.
00:36:08The small staff of doctors were sourced from Craigslist and were compensated on a per-patient basis,
00:36:14given incentives for large and frequent prescriptions.
00:36:19Whatever ailments the patients came in with,
00:36:22the script the doctors were pushing was OxyContin, also known as Oxycodone,
00:36:29synthesized from the opium poppy, prescribed for the treatment of moderate to severe pain,
00:36:34advertised 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.
00:37:07Many of these addicts were supporting their habit through pop-up pain clinics
00:37:11that soon became known as pill mills.
00:37:17A pharmacy clinic or doctor's office that dispenses hardcore narcotics
00:37:22without a legitimate medical need.
00:37:26Sometimes we even called them Doc in the box.
00:37:30They're heavy on advertising and light on service.
00:37:33You know, hey, come get your pills, come get your pills.
00:37:36Recreational drug dealers is what they were.
00:37:38It wasn't long before the lucrative business drew Jeff's brother Chris in.
00:37:44They're operating with a well-oiled machine designed for maximum efficiency.
00:37:50With a constant stream of patients.
00:37:55Copycat pain clinics begin to pop up.
00:37:5889 in Broward County alone.
00:38:03Then Chris George makes a big move and invests in a 20,000 square foot property,
00:38:10creating the largest pill mill in the U.S.
00:38:15The 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
00:38:37their autograph on it.
00:38:39So 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.
00:38:50Some of the doctors even carried guns because it was such a risky business dealing with all of these addicts.
00:38:59In the parking lot behind the strip club, they set up a mobile MRI unit.
00:39:09After a while, they just started giving people other people's MRIs because why do the test if you don't have
00:39:15to?
00:39:16You can just hand somebody a piece of film.
00:39:17The George brothers were obviously doctoring records and doing whatever they had to do in order to make the money.
00:39:23The 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.
00:39:39It definitely has the same ear markings of, you know, an illegal and illicit drug trade.
00:39:51The George brothers are on their way to meet an associate, Robert Eady, at a vacant house in their upscale
00:39:56neighborhood.
00:40:00They suspect Eady is stealing from them.
00:40:04Oh!
00:40:05Come on!
00:40:07Oh!
00:40:12Where's our money?
00:40:13Oh, please!
00:40:15What the hell are you doing?
00:40:17What the hell are you doing?
00:40:18What is this eating arm?
00:40:22Edie, you want to go to bring this?
00:40:25The bullet just misses Edie, and he continues to plead his innocence.
00:40:30The brothers eventually come around to a story and pay him $10,000 to keep silent about the incident.
00:40:38This is just like the Mexican drug cartel.
00:40:41The George brothers were the kingpins of the oxycodone drug trafficking.
00:40:52This erratic driver catches the attention of police and is forced off the road.
00:40:58Set up with something.
00:41:06Inside the car, oxycodone bottles cover the passenger seat.
00:41:12Nine out of ten George brothers' patients are from out of state.
00:41:19There 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 Alley.
00:41:29There was a large number of overdose deaths that started taking place in these people that were coming in from
00:41:35other states to source their drugs,
00:41:36and they would end up in car accidents or overdosing on the side of the road after they had been
00:41:42to 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.
00:41:59Too many patients died.
00:42:02They weren't able to fly under the radar anymore.
00:42:10After months under surveillance, an FBI DEA task force decided to bring formal charges against Chris and Jeff George.
00:42:20On my command, we'll basically, we'll gear up, we'll line up, and we'll go ahead and knock an ounce and
00:42:25make entry on the clinic.
00:42:27Everybody 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.
00:42:51As the SWAT teams were breaking down the doors, the patients were also fighting with the receptionist trying to get
00:42:57in so they could get that last script before the doors were closed.
00:43:06Over their two-year run, the George brothers sold over 20 million Oxycontin pills.
00:43:13Prosecutors have traced over 50 overdose deaths back to their clinics.
00:43:18Jeff George is sentenced to 15 and a half years.
00:43:21Chris George receives a reduced sentence for his testimony against some of his own physicians and is serving a 14
00:43:29-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.
00:43:42But 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
00:44:23source.
00:44:27Drug lords in Afghanistan and Mexico are poised to meet the demand.
00:44:31An epidemic is coming.
00:44:35Heroin.
00:44:54While a heroin epidemic grows at home,
00:45:00In 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
00:45:21abroad.
00:45:24The DEA is the only agency in the world that can enter into hostile zones and develop an investigation.
00:45:32Loaded.
00:45:34There's a bunch of mags in here.
00:45:35It breathes 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.
00:46:08A 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.
00:46:40One of Afghanistan's top drug lords, Haji Bajko, produces nearly 20% of the world's supply.
00:46:51But this isn't business as usual. The buyer's an undercover DEA agent.
00:46:57As we began to develop our investigations, a trafficker named Haji Bajko was identified as the dominant trafficking figure in
00:47:05the entire southeast region of Afghanistan.
00:47:09Move across, let's go. In your alley, 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.
00:47:21Go, go, go. Go, go. Go, go, go. Go, go, go, go.
00:47:31People are placing their husband under arrest for narcotics?
00:47:37Illegal possession of narcotics?
00:47:39Go, go, go, go.
00:47:41Agents confiscate Bajko's ledgers.
00:47:47Os legais nos dão uma troca de trânsito de pagamentos que foram fechados para outros traficadores,
00:47:54governadores, mas o mais impressionante de tudo isso foram pagamentos para o Talibã
00:47:59em quantos que mudaram bem para os milhões de dólares.
00:48:03O operário provou que o dinheiro está sendo usado para financiar o Talibã
00:48:08e sua guerra contra a força coalizante.
00:48:12Agora, afgan, héroe e opium eram inimigos dos Estados Unidos.
00:48:17O governo do US faz uma grande mudança de política,
00:48:20levando os traficadores de droga em Afganistão.
00:48:27E eles dão a D.E.A. no amulismo de criado a nova crime,
00:48:32o terrorismo de narcotráfico.
00:48:36Hoshky Boczko é um dos primeiros convidados under a nova lei,
00:48:39criado para procurar offenders que têm uma mão em traficação de droga e a outra em terror.
00:48:47A D.E.A. sempre funcionei dentro de guidelines, restrições,
00:48:52os mandatos de políticas.
00:48:53A D.E.A. tem sido dito que outras agências com diferentes agendas
00:48:58irão trabalhar com vile e corruptos
00:49:03dentro de qualquer governo.
00:49:05Isso acontece?
00:49:06Claro, isso acontece, mas não acontece dentro da D.E.A.
00:49:11A D.E.A. e a C.I.A.
00:49:15podem muitas vezes botar heads.
00:49:17A D.E.A. queriam arrestar drogas kingpins ou drogas narcotráficos.
00:49:23Muitas vezes, essas são precisamente as pessoas que a C.I.A.
00:49:27irão recrutar para fazer a sua missão mais forte
00:49:31de manter a América segura dos terroristas.
00:49:34A D.E.A. não tem nenhum país
00:49:48sido tão adiciente a drogas
00:49:51desde um ponto de vista econômico
00:49:52como a D.E.A. não tem sido tão adiciente a drogas.
00:50:04É muito difícil imaginar.
00:50:07A D.E.A.J. Juma Khan.
00:50:15An iliterate tribesman
00:50:17com 14 filhos, 29 filhos
00:50:19e um armado pessoal de 1,500 men.
00:50:23Ele também é um membro do Talibão.
00:50:25A D.E.Juma Khan
00:50:26um dos seus líderes de drogas
00:50:29de trafíquers
00:50:30e um alimento de talibão
00:50:32com uma enorme quantidade de armadilha.
00:50:34Ele realmente foi o principal financier
00:50:36do Talibão.
00:50:40A trabalhadores testam a nova crop
00:50:42de ópera de ópera de ópera
00:50:43para qualidade.
00:50:49Esta série é a grade A.
00:50:52Esse ópera de ópera
00:50:53vai produzir 2 lb de ópera de ópera.
00:50:55Valor na U.S.,
00:50:57mais de R$100,000.
00:51:02Juma Khan
00:51:03é agora
00:51:04que está sendo
00:51:04no D.E.A.'s
00:51:06target list.
00:51:07Agentes trabalham
00:51:08para ampliar
00:51:08a relação
00:51:09e ganhar acesso.
00:51:11Um agente
00:51:12se conviverá
00:51:12com uma condição médica.
00:51:16de ópera de ópera.
00:51:26A D.E.Juma Khan
00:51:27veio para os Estados Unidos
00:51:28acredita que ele tinha
00:51:30uma forma de doença
00:51:31de ópera de ópera.
00:51:39A D.E.A.
00:51:46A D.E.A.
00:52:01de ópera
00:52:10de ópera
00:52:11de ópera
00:52:13de ópera
00:52:13até ópera
00:52:14de ópera
00:52:14de ópera
00:52:23ás.
00:52:24e voltando à Afganistão para receber informações sobre o Talibã.
00:52:29Não é a primeira vez que a CIA tem sido em casa com droga de drogas.
00:52:34Em Cuba, a CIA forges um aliança com o mob boss e o traficador Santo Traficante
00:52:40para o suicídio de Fidel Castro.
00:52:43Em Laos, a agência aliança com o agente e produtor de opção, Vang Pau,
00:52:48para lutar com os insurgentes comuns.
00:52:51E novamente na Nicarágua, onde a cocaína ajuda a fundar uma guerra da CIA legal.
00:53:04A CIA vai levar qualquer pessoa, não importa o quão moralmente, éticamente,
00:53:11situacionariamente desafiante pode ser, e se eles acham que há um uso para essa pessoa,
00:53:16eles tentam explorar isso.
00:53:19O governo da U.S. permite a Central Asia's maior traficante droga de drogas,
00:53:24Haji Jumakan, ir para caminhar.
00:53:26Agentes decidem que ter um mole dentro do Talibãs network
00:53:30é mais valioso do que parar de uma das suas fontes de dinheiro.
00:53:34Muitas pessoas podem olhar para drogas de drogas como vilãs.
00:53:38Eu acho que, desde a perspectiva da agência, o benefício de trabalhar com narcotraficantes,
00:53:45eles são geralmente apoliticos, e são muito motivados por dinheiro,
00:53:51e podem ser manipulados, potentei, para conseguir uma missão mais alta.
00:53:57Finalmente, nós vamos ter que olhar para a guerra da droga de drogas em uma outra opção.
00:54:04É uma guerra não vencosa,
00:54:06e sempre vai ser uma ferramenta exploração que podemos usar.
00:54:22Muitas causadas em Afeganistão,
00:54:25a insurgency da Talibãs ganham a força por dia.
00:54:29E a pressa para capturar ou matar Osama Bin Laden intensifica.
00:54:37O objetivo dos Tadibãs é muito sentido de crescer o seu empire de drogas em um herói.
00:54:43Em vez de tentar retirar o globo de cabos,
00:54:47que era o capital político do país.
00:54:50Os agricultores preparam as bolinhas de opção de popis para ir envoyadas ao um labo de drogas.
00:54:55Este campo é criado por Haji Juma Khan.
00:54:59Por anos, ele tem sido um informe do governo de Estados Unidos.
00:55:02mesmo que muito do dinheiro que ele faz
00:55:04vai diretamente para os inimigos dos Estados Unidos.
00:55:07Haji Jumakan foi considerado
00:55:09um dos mais próximos traficantes para o Talibã.
00:55:12Ele era bem conhecido por mover
00:55:14essas gigantescas convois de narcóticos
00:55:16e mover grandes quantidades de armas
00:55:19para o Afganistan.
00:55:20Com o Talibã agora ganhando 300 milhões de dólares
00:55:24a ano de opção,
00:55:25o PENTAGON muda o curso.
00:55:27Haji Jumakan é,
00:55:29que ele foi colocado em uma lista de kill.
00:55:33E a D.E.A. é oferecido uma nova tarefa,
00:55:36algo que eles não fazem normalmente,
00:55:38assiste em um assassinato.
00:55:41Jumakan é colocado por uma das principais
00:55:44de uma das estratégias em guerra contra o terror,
00:55:46mas não é usado em guerra contra o drogas.
00:55:49Um golpe de ataque.
00:56:00um agente de D.E.A. chama Jumakan
00:56:02e manda ele para encontrar.
00:56:08Jumakan é convidado.
00:56:12Jumakan é convidado.
00:56:14Jumakan é convidado.
00:56:27Jumakan é lúdido de sua compadre.
00:56:29Vá-lo para a casos de morte
00:56:30já, a D.E.A.
00:56:31que devia o PENTAGON
00:56:33e coloca Jumakan
00:56:34na casa
00:56:35para o Brasil.
00:56:37Jumakan é convidado na Renata.
00:56:43Para os primeiros últimos meses
00:56:45de 1do 6 meses
00:56:46e vamos ir até lá,
00:56:48mas vamos bättre para nós...
00:56:50Jumakan é o direito da hora para o Brasil.
00:56:51A desejar com o D.E.A.
00:56:53O que é isso?
00:56:54Come on, come on, come on!
00:56:55Come on, come on, come on!
00:56:58Come on, come on, come on!
00:57:03Come on, come on, come on!
00:57:03Within minutes, he is put on a plane bound for the United States.
00:57:09Juma Khan 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.
00:57:23The law enforcement was not to focus on capture and kill,
00:57:28but investigate and prosecute.
00:57:29By removing those primary players, as we did,
00:57:33it slowed the trafficking industry down measurably.
00:57:38But there's always, always someone to take their place eventually,
00:57:42because unequivocally,
00:57:44wards always outweigh the risks in drug trafficking.
00:57:56While the Taliban's drug traffic is being disrupted,
00:57:59the U.S.-backed president, Hamid Karzai,
00:58:02is serving his second term as Afghanistan's president.
00:58:06The wind keeps the family's control and interests safe,
00:58:09including the president's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai's
00:58:12drug distribution network in the south.
00:58:19Ahmed Wali Karzai is in his heavily fortified compound
00:58:23when a trusted security aide enters the home.
00:58:32The president's brother is dead.
00:58:40And the Taliban immediately take credit for 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.
00:58:56It was a means to an end.
00:58:58When people look at these nuances and 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 the deck chairs in the Titanic.
00:59:25Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world
00:59:30that the United States has conducted an operation
00:59:33that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda.
00:59:36USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
00:59:45The issue that people get wrong about the Afghan conflict
00:59:49is that they think it's all about religion and ideology.
00:59:52And I think that it's a lot more about drugs and money and power
00:59:55than anybody realizes.
00:59:56The government's America, my home sweet home,
01:00:06my home sweet home, my home sweet home.
01:00:139-11 happened, and the United States government
01:00:16actually invaded one of the largest opium producers in the world.
01:00:21And after more than 15 years of occupying, controlling, influencing Afghanistan,
01:00:29the production and monetary value of opium and heroin from Afghanistan
01:00:35has actually gone up every single year
01:00:38that the United States government has been there.
01:00:41The fundamental problem isn't the production of drugs.
01:00:45The fundamental problem is the demand for drugs.
01:01:01As the U.S. faces a growing opioid epidemic, the demand for heroin skyrockets.
01:01:11And just across the border, Mexican cartels are diversifying to meet the demand.
01:01:20The Sinaloa Federation had become one of the most powerful
01:01:24and geographically spread out cartels in Mexico.
01:01:29Mexico is a perfect example of what happens when you empower people
01:01:34who basically are total and completely beyond the pale of law-abiding citizens.
01:01:48That guy's doing something down there.
01:01:50Let's go there, I'll see what's going on.
01:01:52Yeah, he's doing some coordinates.
01:01:53North 1509-8319.
01:01:56Agents from Immigration Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE,
01:02:02spot a small vessel coming up the coast from Colombia,
01:02:05bolting from the Mexican shoreline.
01:02:07Now he's going into the inlet.
01:02:09There's a whole crowd of people meeting him.
01:02:11On the boat are members of the Sinaloa Cartel.
01:02:14They're unloading stuff.
01:02:16Stashed on board, pure cocaine.
01:02:19One of the challenges when a large organization like the Sinaloa Federation expands
01:02:24is to establish logistics, to establish a supply chain,
01:02:28and also local commanders to make sure that they maintain
01:02:31the integrity of that newfound territory.
01:02:35They're unloading fuel barrels.
01:02:37Cartel middlemen unload the product.
01:02:40All the fuel barrels are off the ship.
01:02:43Overseeing the operation, Arturo Beltran Leyva,
01:02:47nicknamed the Boss of Bosses.
01:02:49He's a Topsinaloa enforcer.
01:02:54The coke is buried below fish and ice,
01:02:57and loaded onto commercial trucks.
01:03:00Beltran Leyva radios Mexican Border Patrol agents
01:03:03on the cartel payroll,
01:03:05alerting them the trucks are on the move,
01:03:07ensuring safe passage across the border to the United States.
01:03:12Chapo built the perfect vertically integrated enterprise,
01:03:16where you control your product all the way from the ground to the marketplace.
01:03:23One of the most fascinating things about the relationship
01:03:26that Mexican cartels have with American distributors
01:03:30is that most Americans have absolutely no idea
01:03:34what is going on right under their noses.
01:03:36You could be driving on any major highway and see an 18-wheeler right next to you,
01:03:42loaded with illegal drugs moving across the country.
01:03:46The endpoint, the Flores Brothers Chicago operation,
01:03:49who distributes the product to the streets,
01:03:52where the price will have increased 15 times to over $35,000 a kilo.
01:03:58And the Flores Brothers were wholesalers in a sense,
01:04:01that they were getting product directly from the Sinaloa organization,
01:04:05and then they were distributing it to dealers.
01:04:08They had houses rented that they just packed with money.
01:04:13As profits soar, one of El Chapo's lieutenants,
01:04:17Archero Beltran Leyva and his four brothers decide to go out on their own.
01:04:21The Beltran Leyvas thought that they would manage operations better.
01:04:25They had an issue with all that money coming in
01:04:27and not getting enough of a piece of the pie,
01:04:28and that was enough impetus for them to go out on their own.
01:04:33El Chapo's son has been released from prison.
01:04:36But soon after, Beltran Leyva's brother is suddenly arrested by Mexican police.
01:04:44And he suspects El Chapo engineered a deal with the authorities.
01:04:51Now it's Beltran Leyva's turn.
01:04:53He has the dismembered body parts of El Chapo's militiamen delivered to his enemy.
01:05:01El Chapo firebombs a Beltran Leyva safe house.
01:05:08The pattern of violence continues as the rivals try to one-up each other.
01:05:15To show who is the most powerful, who is the most capable of inciting fear.
01:05:24Then Beltran Leyva gets personal.
01:05:3215 assassins opened fire in a parking lot.
01:05:36One of the victims is El Chapo's 22-year-old son.
01:05:46Now the civil war is on.
01:05:55One hundred and sixteen people are killed over the next month.
01:06:01The surge in violence puts Beltran Leyva on the run.
01:06:07And the Mexican military reportedly placed a two-billion-dollar bounty on his head.
01:06:13This is an indication of the level of insanity and violence that takes place in Mexico as a result of
01:06:21the drug war.
01:06:22They're not fighting about anything else but the money that's being made in drugs.
01:06:26So the drug war creates this level of violence.
01:06:31Once the killing starts, it's like we've seen it in mafia movies.
01:06:36You kill one of mine, I kill three of yours.
01:06:38I kill three of yours, you kill six of mine.
01:06:41And the level of violence and killing just keeps upping and upping and upping.
01:06:45The Flores brothers are caught in the middle as the two cartels go to war.
01:06:50They decide their only move is to work with the DEA, allowing their calls with El Chapo to be wiretapped
01:06:57in exchange for protection.
01:07:00Anybody's going to be terrified when you're confronted with that level of violence.
01:07:03You figure, I'm going to walk out and I'm going to get shot and I'm going to get killed.
01:07:06What happened with the Flores brothers is they had no good options.
01:07:11The only option was, as far as they could see, to work with the DEA and hope that you're going
01:07:15to get protected by the government.
01:07:26An informant tips off the Mexican Marines to Arturo Beltran Leyva's location.
01:08:00The Marines cover the bloody corpse in pesos, impose Beltran Leyva for the press.
01:08:09The Marines cover the bloody corpse in pesos, impose Beltran Leyva for the press.
01:08:10El Chapo sends a severed head to Beltran Leyva's tomb.
01:08:18Sinaloa is now poised to take over and become the most powerful cartel because they've got the police doing their
01:08:25dirty work for them.
01:08:28It's not an uncommon strategy used in war.
01:08:32To use the enemy of your enemy to advance your interests.
01:08:36We do it in Iraq, we do it in Afghanistan, we're doing it now in Syria.
01:08:41El Chapo is now one of the world's most powerful drug lords and also one of the world's most wanted
01:08:49men.
01:08:49We do it in Afghanistan.
01:09:04The UK's March 2019
01:09:06The UK's March 19th
01:09:13The UK's March 20th
01:09:18Umbrella
01:09:19para ser legalizados na América.
01:09:29Dea agentes, em full-combat gear, descendo de um helicóptero
01:09:33e descendo na farm.
01:09:36A plantas de weed são cortadas e confiscadas.
01:09:45Isso é marihuana.
01:09:48Marihuana, também conhecido como weed,
01:09:51oferecendo um mente-altering, euphoric high.
01:09:55A primary psychoactive element, tetrahydrocannabinol, ou THC.
01:10:02Despite a federal government classifying marijuana
01:10:05as a Schedule I illegal drug,
01:10:07the cannabis market is now worth an estimated 7 billion dollars.
01:10:12It was criminalized in the early 20th century.
01:10:18It was all about the weed with roots in hell.
01:10:22And this huge propaganda that was built up around marijuana.
01:10:27This harmless-looking cigarette is cloaked in many innocent disguises.
01:10:32But light the match.
01:10:33Inhale the smoke, and it becomes an invitation to your own murder.
01:10:42To the 1930s, 40s and 50s,
01:10:46government propaganda claimed that marijuana destroyed the human spirit.
01:10:50It made young women into fools and whores,
01:10:53and turned men into rapists.
01:10:59They lied to us about this plant.
01:11:01You smoked it, and you suddenly said,
01:11:04wait a minute now, this stuff isn't so bad.
01:11:06I don't have any desire to go out and rape anybody.
01:11:09I don't even want to get into a fight.
01:11:15Ending marijuana prohibition is incredibly beneficial for everybody in society,
01:11:20except for the entities who have been making money off of its prohibition
01:11:23for the last 70 years.
01:11:25Law enforcement, private prisons, pharmaceutical companies.
01:11:33All of them, their business models are predicated on marijuana being illegal.
01:11:41On average, 700,000 Americans are arrested every year on marijuana charges.
01:11:54Colorado becomes the first state to legalize recreational marijuana use.
01:11:59Sean's first purchase is going to be an indica strain.
01:12:02This veteran of the war in Iraq will make one of the first legal marijuana purchases to treat his PTSD.
01:12:11$59.74.
01:12:13Thank you very, very much.
01:12:16We got some legal weed.
01:12:22I'm in line to buy something legal.
01:12:24Let's do this.
01:12:25That's all I'm saying.
01:12:26Let's do this.
01:12:35Now legal in 28 states,
01:12:39legalization is having major implications for the Mexican cartels.
01:12:53If you go to Mexico, then the single biggest threat that the cartels face at the moment to their business
01:12:58is legalization.
01:13:03They now face a very powerful competitor in the form of legal businesses.
01:13:08And if you go to a state like Colorado where the stuff's been legal now for some years, it's an
01:13:12incredibly sophisticated business.
01:13:13It's really professional.
01:13:20The Sinaloa cartel doesn't do chocolate.
01:13:25If you can take this gigantic market out of the hands of criminals and put it in the hands of
01:13:32law-abiding, tax-paying people, that's much more attractive to the government.
01:13:36And ultimately, it leads to a market which is better regulated, safer, and far less criminal.
01:13:47Unlike the legal operations in the north, the Sinaloa kingpin, El Chapo, operates in the shadows.
01:13:55Over the last decade, he's played an elaborate game of cat and mouse, always staying one step ahead of the
01:14:02authorities.
01:14:09Intelligence, gathered from informants and wiretaps, leads authorities to this seaside condo.
01:14:17Without a single shot fired, El Chapo is finally captured.
01:14:31He's sent to Mexico's most secure prison.
01:14:37Truth of the matter is that the huge amounts of money that are generated by the illegal drug traffic world
01:14:45has corrupted law enforcement and the prison authorities.
01:14:50Suddenly, Chapo's guys come along and say, well, here's 150 grand, 200 grand to look the other way while we
01:14:56build this tunnel, or you're going to die.
01:14:58And, you know, the people are going to take the money.
01:15:12The Sinaloa cartel digs a mile-long tunnel directly to El Chapo's cell.
01:15:18Looked like he's going to take a shower and disappear into a tunnel that had a motorcycle in it.
01:15:30Next thing you know, Chapo disappears and he's gone.
01:15:44While in hiding, El Chapo makes a bold move, persuading Mexican soap opera star Kate Del Castillo to introduce him
01:15:51to actor Sean Penn.
01:15:54The hope, a collaboration on his life story.
01:16:08But Penn and Del Castillo don't realize they're being watched. Mexican intelligence is tracking their every move.
01:16:23After months of meticulous tracking, the Mexican military zero in on a coastal town in Sinaloa, El Chapo's home state.
01:16:37Official spot a van they believe to belong to the cartel, picking up a large late night order of tacos.
01:16:43The hunch, the tacos are for El Chapo.
01:16:50With the alleged support of the U.S. Delta Force, the Mexican Special Forces carry out Operation Black Swan.
01:17:00We'll go out, on the right side of it.
01:17:12Let's go, on the other side.
01:17:13Let's go, let's go, let's go.
01:17:16Do it, let's go!
01:17:17Oh wait, let's go!
01:17:17water, water! Let's
01:17:20go! You gotta
01:17:22go, let's go! Let's
01:17:23go!
01:17:23Tchau!
01:17:31Vale, vamos.
01:17:39Entra, entra, entra. Busca a escala.
01:17:45Vem, vem.
01:17:47Vale.
01:17:50Vale.
01:17:53Entra, tensa, tensa!
01:17:59El largo, hay otro pasillo allá.
01:18:02Hay otro pasillo allá.
01:18:07Arriba.
01:18:09Arriba.
01:18:12Andrade.
01:18:17Calma, calma!
01:18:18Laurato!
01:18:18Calma, calma.
01:18:235 cartel gunmen
01:18:25estão mortos
01:18:26mas El Chapo
01:18:27escapes through
01:18:28a hidden tunnel
01:18:29in a closet
01:18:29connected
01:18:30to the city's
01:18:31sewer system
01:18:33He stole a car
01:18:35and he took off
01:18:36When they caught him
01:18:37he said
01:18:38look
01:18:38I'm going to give you money
01:18:39I'll give you jobs
01:18:41I'll take good care
01:18:42of all of you
01:18:44But the Mexican soldiers
01:18:45refuse the bribe
01:18:47and take Joaquin Guzman
01:18:48into custody
01:18:52With evidence
01:18:53from the Flores Brothers
01:18:55wiretapped calls
01:18:56El Chapo
01:18:57is extradited
01:18:58to New York
01:19:00El Chapo
01:19:01is now
01:19:02in the most famous
01:19:03jail in the world
01:19:04The Metropolitan Correctional Center
01:19:07The Criminal Hilton
01:19:08to bow down
01:19:09before the almighty power
01:19:11of the American
01:19:12criminal justice system
01:19:14And in that building
01:19:15you have
01:19:16every single criminal
01:19:18of every kind of strike
01:19:19from terrorists
01:19:20to rogue CIA agents
01:19:24to drug lords
01:19:26to mafia bosses
01:19:31And in his absence
01:19:33the Sinaloa cartel
01:19:36continues to operate
01:19:38The U.S. government
01:19:40when it makes
01:19:40a seizure
01:19:42or takes out
01:19:43a notorious
01:19:44high profile
01:19:45drug trafficker
01:19:46it's never eliminating
01:19:48the problem
01:19:48it's just giving
01:19:50a promotion
01:19:50to somebody else
01:19:53It's great for the American
01:19:57public appetite
01:19:58for these kind of
01:20:00super villains
01:20:01to have guys like
01:20:02El Chapo
01:20:02or Pablo Escobar
01:20:04to point the finger
01:20:05and say
01:20:05this is a bad guy
01:20:06you lock Chapo up
01:20:08you lock Escobar up
01:20:09you kill him
01:20:10whatever you do
01:20:10somebody else
01:20:11is going to be there
01:20:12to take their place
01:20:13maybe 30 guys
01:20:14are there to take their place
01:20:15it doesn't stop anything
01:20:17it just gives the public
01:20:19another anti-hero
01:20:21a bad guy
01:20:22to focus on
01:20:31911
01:20:32where's your emergency?
01:20:34I need an ambulance
01:20:36right away
01:20:36my son just over
01:20:37don't send me on
01:20:38what's your head?
01:20:39please
01:20:40he's unconscious
01:20:42please hurry
01:20:53I think in future
01:20:55when people look back
01:20:56at the war on drugs
01:20:57they'll see one of
01:20:58the great public policy
01:20:59failures of our time
01:21:03so much money
01:21:04has been spent
01:21:05and so much violence
01:21:06done
01:21:07all for such
01:21:08little gain
01:21:16America's public enemy
01:21:17number one
01:21:18in the United States
01:21:19is drug abuse
01:21:23the US government
01:21:24has always had
01:21:26a hypocritical relationship
01:21:28to drugs
01:21:29on the one hand
01:21:30it uses drug dealers
01:21:33as part of its foreign policy
01:21:35what will you do
01:21:36when someone
01:21:37offers you drugs?
01:21:38let's say no!
01:21:40and then domestically
01:21:42it has built up
01:21:44an entire system
01:21:45of social control
01:21:46around the use
01:21:48of these drugs
01:21:51the war on drugs
01:21:52is the war on poor people
01:21:55it's a means
01:21:56of dehumanizing
01:21:57large segments
01:21:58of the American population
01:22:01some think there won't be room
01:22:02for them in jail
01:22:03we'll make room
01:22:10the war on drugs
01:22:12has achieved
01:22:13none of its ends
01:22:15but the one thing
01:22:16it has done
01:22:16is increase the power
01:22:18of its institutions
01:22:19and the laws
01:22:20of the state
01:22:22its powers
01:22:23to search
01:22:24Americans' homes
01:22:25to do surveillance
01:22:26that is the only
01:22:28tangible victory
01:22:29of the war on drugs
01:22:30is to have made
01:22:31the state stronger
01:22:33you will be put away
01:22:35and put away for good
01:22:36three strikes
01:22:37and you are out
01:22:43the country
01:22:45was given a choice
01:22:46and what happened was
01:22:48it doubled down
01:22:49on the war on drugs
01:22:56we have spent
01:22:57trillions of dollars
01:22:59over the decades
01:23:00trillions
01:23:01with no positive results
01:23:03walk backwards
01:23:04backwards
01:23:05backwards
01:23:06stop
01:23:08the only thing
01:23:08it created
01:23:09was mass
01:23:10incarceration
01:23:18no individual
01:23:20in the United States
01:23:21can say
01:23:21thank you
01:23:22America
01:23:22for your war on drugs
01:23:24you saved my child
01:23:27nobody really wants
01:23:28to be addicted
01:23:29to drugs
01:23:30it's a terrible
01:23:30way of life
01:23:32law enforcement
01:23:33is not the answer
01:23:34the only solution
01:23:35is to treat it
01:23:37as a social
01:23:38and health problem
01:23:40people who get
01:23:41in trouble with drugs
01:23:42need to be helped
01:23:43they have a medical
01:23:44condition
01:23:46and I think
01:23:46a lot of things
01:23:47really need to change
01:23:48drug use
01:23:49is not a war
01:23:50you win
01:23:51the reality
01:23:52is that no one
01:23:54in power
01:23:54ever took this war
01:23:55on drugs
01:23:56seriously
01:23:56they used it
01:23:58for political purposes
01:23:59it's an ugly truth
01:24:01drugs are menacing
01:24:03our society
01:24:03they're killing
01:24:05our children
01:24:05I say that legalization
01:24:07is just another word
01:24:08for surrender
01:24:09and surrender
01:24:10is not in our vocabulary
01:24:12we have just begun
01:24:14the job
01:24:14and we do not intend
01:24:16to stop
01:24:17until we have finished
01:24:19when we fight drugs
01:24:21we fight the war
01:24:22on terror
01:24:28I think it's politically
01:24:29very difficult
01:24:30for politicians
01:24:31to talk sense
01:24:31about drugs
01:24:32while they're still
01:24:33in office
01:24:33and what we're seeing
01:24:35is a growing number
01:24:35of people
01:24:36who come out
01:24:37and admit
01:24:37that the war
01:24:38is failing
01:24:40I signed a bill
01:24:41that made the problem
01:24:42worse
01:24:42we had a lot of people
01:24:44locked up
01:24:44for way too long
01:24:46and that was overdone
01:24:48we were wrong
01:24:48about that
01:24:50the president
01:24:51of the United States
01:24:56finding sitting presidents
01:24:58who are still
01:24:58in office
01:24:59who still have the power
01:25:00to change things
01:25:00is much harder
01:25:02to protect our citizens
01:25:04I have directed
01:25:05the departments
01:25:05of homeland security
01:25:06and justice
01:25:08along with the department
01:25:09of state
01:25:09and the director
01:25:11of national intelligence
01:25:12to coordinate
01:25:13an aggressive strategy
01:25:15to dismantle
01:25:16the criminal cartels
01:25:17that have spread
01:25:19all across
01:25:20our nation
01:25:26bellum se ipsum alet
01:25:28and it translates
01:25:30as war feeds itself
01:25:38once you create the enemy
01:25:41once you build the institutions
01:25:42it will keep perpetuating itself forever
01:25:46forever
01:25:48you
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