Inside the North American Drug Trade: The 400-Year Road to the Cartels
The modern Mexican cartel system didn’t begin with El Chapo, Pablo Escobar or even the Guadalajara Cartel. Its roots stretch back centuries.
In this episode of Deadly Intentions, Bubba and Pete trace the evolution of the North American drug trade from the early relationship between China and Mexico through the Manila Galleons, opium, Chinese migration, the Civil War, morphine, Prohibition and organized crime.
The story moves through Sinaloa’s rise as a major production center, Bugsy Siegel and the American underworld, Mexico’s La Plaza system, Operation Condor and the emergence of Miguel…
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