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Mega Edition: The Sinaloa Cartel And Their World Wide Footprint (10/27/26) · Beyond The Horizon

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In
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Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to hop across the pond and
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Speaker 1: we're going to check in on the Kinahan cartel and
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Speaker 1: how the Sinaloa cartel has been making inroads in Ireland.
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Speaker 1: This article was published by the Sunday World and the headline.
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Speaker 1: Irish branch of Sinaloa cartel led by carry men flooded
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Speaker 1: Ireland with cocaine. This article was authored by Neil Ferretar.
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Speaker 1: The world's most dangerous drug cartel has been trafficking huge
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Speaker 1: shipments of cocaine into Dublin Port under the direction of carrymen,
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Speaker 1: secret police files have revealed. Confidential intelligence files from Spanish
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Speaker 1: police obtained exclusively by the Sunday World show the inner
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Speaker 1: workings of the European branch of the Sinaloa cartel during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic. And I've said it a million times, the
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Speaker 1: Sinaloa cartel is transnational. They're not just based in America
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Speaker 1: or the Americas or Mexico. They're everywhere. And when you're
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Speaker 1: in control of the game like they are, forget it.
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Speaker 1: That reaches long, right? And certainly goes all the way
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Speaker 1: to Ireland. We've talked about the Kinahan cartel and their
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Speaker 1: connections with people like the Sinaloa cartel and especially with
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Speaker 1: the suppliers down in Colombia. So there's no doubt that
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Speaker 1: there's operatives running around in Ireland as we speak. The
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Speaker 1: documents show how the trafficking network was controlled by an
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Speaker 1: Irish-Mexican citizen called Morris O'Shea Salazar. Could that name be
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Speaker 1: any more of a cliche? This dude's like, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: my name's Morris O'Shea. Let me throw a Salazar on
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Speaker 1: the back of that, though. The 33-year-old managed to rise
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Speaker 1: to the top of the Sinaloa cartel, despite being raised
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Speaker 1: in Ireland. The Sunday World investigation can reveal how Gardai
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Speaker 1: are aware of the huge scale of the cocaine operation
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Speaker 1: and how drugs were smuggled into Ireland, through Dublin Port.
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Speaker 1: They also show how O'Shea Salazar lived a life of
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Speaker 1: luxury in Barcelona with his glamorous girlfriend as he directed
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Speaker 1: the multi-million euro drugs mob. One of his lieutenants is
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Speaker 1: a criminal, 40s, whose father was a well-known political figure
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Speaker 1: in Kerry. Police forces believe the Sinaloa-Irish cruise operation was
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Speaker 1: as lucrative as the Kinnehan's. And look, if you have
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Speaker 1: those connections, that's what it's all about in this world.
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Speaker 1: If you have a hookup, you have the plug, then
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Speaker 1: you're the guy that's going to be the guy, right?
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to get their product after it's been touched
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Speaker 1: by three people. That's how you end up getting taxed.
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Speaker 1: So these people want to go directly to the source.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you'll see a lot of times people
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Speaker 1: are very guarded about their source. They don't want you
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Speaker 1: to meet the man. They don't want you to divert business.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to lose any of their place in
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Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things when it comes to dealing drugs.
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Speaker 1: The crew, who answered directly to infamous Mexican narco Joaquin
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Speaker 1: El Chapo Guzman's son, conspired to smuggle up to 6,000
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Speaker 1: kilos of the drug into Europe in just one year.
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Speaker 1: Now think about how much coke that is. Each kilo
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Speaker 1: is 2.2 pounds and 6,000 kilos. That is a whole
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Speaker 1: hell of a lot of cocaine to be smuggling into
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Speaker 1: a small-ass place like Ireland. Now, we know that people
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Speaker 1: in Europe have a taste. People in Europe have an
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Speaker 1: addiction problem with the drugs, just like here in America.
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Speaker 1: It's not as reported because they're not dropping dead yet
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Speaker 1: in the streets from the overdoses in the number that
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Speaker 1: we see in America, but it's on its way. Europe's
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Speaker 1: always a few years behind, and it's on its way.
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Speaker 1: And if you have cartel operatives like the Sinaloa cartel
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Speaker 1: operating in places like Cary, you really think that the
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Speaker 1: cartel isn't operating in bigger city centers? They most certainly are,
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Speaker 1: even if you're not aware of it. Averaging 80 euros
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Speaker 1: per gram at the street level, that amounts to a
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Speaker 1: potential 480 million euros. Now, that's so much money for blow.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even imagine for that same amount
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Speaker 1: here in the States, you can get it for half
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Speaker 1: a lot, sometimes cheaper, depending on, you know, if you
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Speaker 1: got a hookup or a homie or whatever. But 80
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Speaker 1: euros a G? That is so much money. How does
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Speaker 1: anyone afford that? You get a coke addiction over in Europe,
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Speaker 1: forget it. You're knocking over armored cars to get your
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Speaker 1: little booger sugar action going. But despite the international scale
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Speaker 1: of the cocaine ring, the Sinaloa cell had deep ties
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Speaker 1: to a small corner of Ireland and used homegrown criminals
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Speaker 1: to smuggle the drug into Dublin. It is understood that
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Speaker 1: Gardai are aware of the scale and reach of the
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Speaker 1: gang's trafficking operations and its reach into Ireland. Well, they
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Speaker 1: should be, with all of the work they've been doing
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Speaker 1: lately with their international partners. Yeah, you better believe America
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Speaker 1: has told them, you have operatives here, believe it. And frankly,
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Speaker 1: anywhere that you find cocaine, and you find it coming
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Speaker 1: in transported especially, you're going to find operatives of insert
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Speaker 1: cartel here. Either it's going to be Sinaloa or CJNG
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Speaker 1: or whoever, but you're going to find operatives. They have
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Speaker 1: to have somebody there as the steward to watch over
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Speaker 1: their product, to watch over their business, and to clip
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Speaker 1: anybody who gets out of line. Intelligence documents from Spain
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Speaker 1: detail how Morris O'Shea Salazar, a joint Irish-Mexican citizen, was
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Speaker 1: in charge of the cocaine trafficking ring for the group.
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Speaker 1: Although he was born in Mexico, O'Shea Salazar was raised
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Speaker 1: in Ireland and Kerry, where he went to school. O'Shea
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Speaker 1: Salazar is currently wanted in Chile in connection to the
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Speaker 1: trafficking ring with his mother and uncle both behind bars.
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Speaker 1: Chilean officials have said he is an important member of
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Speaker 1: the Sinaloa cartel. Now think about that. You got Mr.
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Speaker 1: Huero over here running the whole operation and he's an
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Speaker 1: Irish citizen. So if you think that this is only,
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Speaker 1: you know, somebody sneaking into the country and living there
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Speaker 1: illegally or whatever and doing this, you're wrong. There are
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Speaker 1: citizens of Ireland that are deeply entrenched with the Sinaloa
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Speaker 1: cartel and other cartels. And then this leads us to
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Speaker 1: the other conversation we were having about arms making their
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Speaker 1: way back to the Sinaloa cartel. Do you really believe
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Speaker 1: that the Kinnehans and all of these European-based groups don't
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Speaker 1: have access to the illegal markets when it comes to arms?
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Speaker 1: Of course they do. We've already talked about Austria and
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Speaker 1: how Austria and sources in Austria were providing a ton
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Speaker 1: of weapons to the cartels. You extrapolate that and you
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Speaker 1: add all of the issues that are in Europe right
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Speaker 1: now with different wars sprouting up, different conflicts. These weapons
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Speaker 1: are making their way to the market. And then from
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Speaker 1: the market, they're making their way into the hands of
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Speaker 1: the Sinaloa cartel. Today, the Sunday World can reveal for
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Speaker 1: the first time how the huge scale of O'Shea Salazar's
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Speaker 1: operation was laid bare by Spanish cops and how Ireland
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Speaker 1: was a key destination for his cocaine shipments. The cocaine
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Speaker 1: was brought by the Sinaloa cartel in Bolivia, before being
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Speaker 1: brought across the border into Chile by O'Shea Salazar's crew.
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Speaker 1: And Bolivia is known for producing cocaine. You have Bolivia,
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Speaker 1: you have Colombia, and you have Peru. Those are the
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Speaker 1: three major places where cocaine is produced. And Bolivia is
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Speaker 1: one of those spots that's rarely talked about, but it's
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Speaker 1: cracking off. This whole entire part of the world is
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Speaker 1: a tinderbox. In America, we better get our shit together
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Speaker 1: and start paying attention to our own hemisphere. Spain's Anti-Drug
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Speaker 1: Prosecutor's Office write, The Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Defense Team
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Speaker 1: of the Guarda Civil submitted a report in relation to
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Speaker 1: a criminal group engaged in the trafficking of large quantities
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Speaker 1: of cocaine from South America to Spain, led by Morris
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Speaker 1: O'Shea Salazar. It is clear they intend to introduce into
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Speaker 1: Europe through Spain a large quantity of narcotics, 6,000 kilos
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Speaker 1: of cocaine. It was then smuggled into Europe before being
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Speaker 1: distributed to Holland, the U.K., and Ireland. O'Shea Salazar's operation
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Speaker 1: in Chile was run by his own mother, Yolanda, and
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Speaker 1: his uncle, Ricardo. Family operation. A lot of times that's
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Speaker 1: what you see. And when people don't have hope, it's generational.
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Speaker 1: What do you think, they wake up one day and
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Speaker 1: this kid's going to be able to go to college?
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Speaker 1: That's not how it works down here. People have no
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Speaker 1: idea about how rough it is. You know, people want
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Speaker 1: to say this, that, or the other thing. Stay and
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Speaker 1: fight for your home. And look, I get it. We
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Speaker 1: all want to think that we would do that. But
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Speaker 1: until you're in a position where you have to make
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Speaker 1: that decision, do I stay and fight and have my
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Speaker 1: kids killed, my wife killed? I don't even have any weapons.
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Speaker 1: No one's going to help me. Or do you try
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Speaker 1: and make a better life for you and your family
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Speaker 1: somewhere else? The son of a carry political figure who
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Speaker 1: cannot be named for legal reasons is also a key
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Speaker 1: player in the gang and answered directly to O'Shea Salazar.
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Speaker 1: The man who is in his 40s is known to
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Speaker 1: guard I, but now poses as a legitimate businessman. The
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Speaker 1: secret files also include details of hacked encrypted messages and
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Speaker 1: also show details of three suspected major shipments which landed
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Speaker 1: in Dublin. They detail how a major cocaine shipment arrived
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Speaker 1: in Dublin port on June 16th, 2020, while a separate
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Speaker 1: shipment traveled on a large container ship, MSC Madu, from
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Speaker 1: port of Valparaiso, Chile. That shipment left on May 17th,
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Speaker 1: 2020 and arrived in Dublin the following month. A third
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Speaker 1: container arrived bound for Dublin left South America on May 9th.
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Speaker 1: It traveled through Antwerp on MSC Eino and arrived in
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Speaker 1: Dublin on June 12th, 2020. The Spanish police files are
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Speaker 1: partly based on information gleaned from the now famous EncroChat hack,
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Speaker 1: and they really nailed the organized criminals over here with
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Speaker 1: that hack. Whoever was the weak link for the cartels
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Speaker 1: here and let themselves get hacked, boy, that's bad news.
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Speaker 1: It led to a whole lot of trouble for a
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Speaker 1: lot of cartels in Europe. EnroChat was an encrypted mobile
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Speaker 1: phone service used by criminals which was hacked by European
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Speaker 1: police forces leading to 6,558 arrests across the continent. The
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Speaker 1: encrypted messages show how payments of 590,000 euros were made
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Speaker 1: by intermediaries to O'Shea Salazar for single containers at bulk price.
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Speaker 1: The Irishman forwarded images of the cash to his uncle
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Speaker 1: Ricardo in Chile, saying, I have the money for Chapito.
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Speaker 1: Ricardo Salazar and his sister, Yolanda O'Shea Salazar, Morris' mother,
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Speaker 1: were last year sent to prison for 23 years for
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Speaker 1: organizing the drug shipments. Their trial heard how, on October
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Speaker 1: 28th and December 9th, 2020, Bolivian suppliers sent a total
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Speaker 1: of 350 kilos of cocaine to Chile to O'Shea Salazar's uncle, Ricardo.
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Speaker 1: The criminal court in Chile also heard how, during the
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Speaker 1: first quarter of 2021, Ricardo and Yolanda coordinated the shipment
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Speaker 1: of more than a ton of drugs to Europe. In
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Speaker 1: March 2021, Yolanda and Ricardo were detained at an airport
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Speaker 1: in Chile while they were trying to board a flight
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Speaker 1: to Mexico. five phones, an electric tablet, and cash were
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Speaker 1: seized from them. The MSC Chloe, MSC Bianca, and MSC Elma,
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Speaker 1: all large container ships, also arrived in various ports in Europe, Antwerp, Valencia, Liverpool, Bilbo,
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Speaker 1: and Malaga during the summer of 2020, laden down with cocaine.
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Speaker 1: So it's only getting worse, my European friends. And it
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Speaker 1: won't be long, unfortunately, before this cocaine is tainted by fentanyl.
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Speaker 1: At least three Irish truck drivers are revealed in the
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Speaker 1: secret EnroChat files to have then driven containers into Ireland
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Speaker 1: by land for payments of 15,000 euros per trip. The
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Speaker 1: cocaine was hidden in shipments of both wet and dry
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Speaker 1: cargo fruit and fish. After the cocaine was extracted on arrival,
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Speaker 1: the gang would incinerate the leftover goods. So they'll do
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Speaker 1: it in things like fish or vegetables, whatever, because it's
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Speaker 1: time sensitive. So they'll get the stat treatment, when they're
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Speaker 1: on the dock, right? And that's the key for these guys.
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Speaker 1: Keep things moving. Passenger planes flown by KLM, Iberia, and
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Speaker 1: Air France were unwittingly also used to transport cocaine and
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Speaker 1: smuggle loads of 50 kilos per trip from South American airports.
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Speaker 1: Both the DEA, Spanish police, and Chilean law officials have
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Speaker 1: named former social welfare recipient Morris O'Shea Salazar as the
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Speaker 1: head of the gang. He is accused of running logistics
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Speaker 1: for the cartel based out of a luxury apartment in Barcelona.
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Speaker 1: All these dudes are in Barcelona, right? Seems like all
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Speaker 1: of them are down in Spain. And that's very interesting.
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Speaker 1: Further members of the Irish crew include a Liverpool-born man
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Speaker 1: who is 39 years old and the Kerry political figure's son,
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Speaker 1: both allegedly in charge of finance and distribution. O'Shea Salazar's
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Speaker 1: carry sidekick is also alleged in the files to have
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Speaker 1: been offering grenades and magnum guns at a price of
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Speaker 1: roughly € 2, 300 each to various buyers. Oh, well, what do
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Speaker 1: you know? Arms trafficking, huh? I wonder if the legacy
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Speaker 1: media is ever going to make you hip to it.
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Speaker 1: The pair came under heavy surveillance by Spanish cops while
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Speaker 1: visiting a variety of hotels in Balearics. The Irishmen were
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Speaker 1: allegedly organizing logistics and vehicle repairs at truck stops throughout
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Speaker 1: Europe during the summer of 2020. Each member had their
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Speaker 1: own unique EnroChat identity, including the three Irish truck drivers
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Speaker 1: who went by the names BB, Owl Betty, and Ironic Sugar.
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Speaker 1: O'Shea called himself Sin City Gold, the Scouser went by
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Speaker 1: Rough Diamond, while his right-hand man from Kerry used Coo Chalin,
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Speaker 1: whatever that means. Other gang members include Dior 6, Pure Love,
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Speaker 1: Notorious Cleaner, and Melito. These gang members were based in
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Speaker 1: places such as Pier 188 in Antwerp, Liverpool and Valencia,
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Speaker 1: where a new port terminal has been opened. In the
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Speaker 1: intercepted messages, the Irish Sinaloa crew said they own this
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Speaker 1: new facility in Valencia. Chilean officials have now issued an
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Speaker 1: extradition warrant for O'Shea Salazar and have named him in
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Speaker 1: court proceedings. This dude's finished. If he gets nailed, forget it.
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Speaker 1: Never going to see the light of day again. The operation,
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Speaker 1: carried out by Chilean prosecutor's office, is... of a level
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Speaker 1: rarely seen in coordination with Spain and the DEA, said
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Speaker 1: journalist Jorge Molina. The Chilean investigative reporter collaborated with Sunday
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Speaker 1: World during his investigation and said the Sinaloa gang members
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Speaker 1: involved are deluded. He has written a book on the
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Speaker 1: matter called Chile Narcos and says the kingpin is currently
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Speaker 1: hiding out in the land of Mariachi. Ricardo Salazar Tariba
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Speaker 1: was infiltrated before entering Chile. His Irish nephew, Morris O'Shea,
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Speaker 1: the operational arm of the Sinaloa cartel in Spain, was
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Speaker 1: located and even photographed with his personal network, including alongside
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Speaker 1: accomplices from other nationalities. It's all about money, man. And money,
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Speaker 1: as long as it's coming in and nobody's stealing it, well,
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Speaker 1: it's colorblind. If the drug shipping operation had turned out
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Speaker 1: as fully planned, it is very likely they would have
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Speaker 1: settled in Bolivia. Chile requested O'Shea's extradition from Mexico. The
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Speaker 1: issue is whether they are going to find him. Mexico
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Speaker 1: is a very large country with areas where drug traffickers
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Speaker 1: control everything, he said. Yeah, they're not going to get them.
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Speaker 1: No way. What, AMLO's going to show up and give
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Speaker 1: them hugs and not bullets? The secret files named a
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Speaker 1: number of companies used to transport cocaine specifically into Ireland.
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Speaker 1: The cartel used some large businesses in the Green Channel
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Speaker 1: as their large volume of merchandise would facilitate the introduction
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Speaker 1: of the cocaine. Nestle was unknowingly used to introduce cocaine
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Speaker 1: from the Porta Santos to Valencia, as containers from this
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Speaker 1: company have not been searched for 20 years and are
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Speaker 1: never reviewed because it is Green Channel. Imagine that, huh?
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Speaker 1: Doesn't take much, and if you want to see a
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Speaker 1: pretty good show that talks about this kind of thing,
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Speaker 1: check out the show 000, or even better, read the book.
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Speaker 1: It discusses how the cocaine is shipped, how it's received,
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Speaker 1: and what happens after it. A very interesting perspective. Green
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Speaker 1: Channel goods are classified as those that are released for
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Speaker 1: export straight away once they are declared to meet the
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Speaker 1: standard criteria. Morris' O'Shea Salazar and his Liverpool-based sidekick discuss
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Speaker 1: transporting drugs into Spain using the port terminal in Valencia,
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Speaker 1: which they are expected to have total control over. Well,
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Speaker 1: as you can see, the war on drugs is going swimmingly,
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Speaker 1: isn't it? Meanwhile, back here in reality... We all know
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Speaker 1: that that is not the truth and that the war
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Speaker 1: on drugs is really the war on you. All right, folks,
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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
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Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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Speaker 1: in the description box. On and welcome back to the program. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about the surge in drug violence in Sydney, Australia. Well, today,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to add a little more to that and
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Speaker 1: talk about how the cartels got into Australia. how they
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Speaker 1: bring the drugs in, how they're moving the drugs there,
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Speaker 1: and some of the partnerships that they're involved with. When
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Speaker 1: you think of Australia, you really don't think about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Sinaloa cartel is probably not the first thing that
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Speaker 1: comes up in your brain, but they have their fingers
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Speaker 1: deeply in the pie, and they're supplying a large amount
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Speaker 1: of the cocaine to these drug clans and drug cartels
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Speaker 1: within Australia, That are engaging in this warfare in the streets.
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Speaker 1: So the Sinaloa cartel once again. Showing you just how
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Speaker 1: long their arms are. And just how far their reach
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Speaker 1: really is. Today we have an article from 7news. com. An
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Speaker 1: Australian station. And the headline is Mexican drug cartels. How
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Speaker 1: they infiltrated Australia. And have more power than ever. This
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Speaker 1: article was authored. by Duncan McNabb, and it was originally
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Speaker 1: published on Thursday, May 9th of 2019. Australians spent $ 9. 3
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Speaker 1: billion last year on illicit drugs, according to the Australian
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Speaker 1: Criminal Intelligence Commission. So you know what that means, right?
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Speaker 1: A lot of money going into the pocket of drug dealers,
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Speaker 1: and inevitably, if we're talking about cocaine, we're talking about
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Speaker 1: anything really at this point. You know that the Mexican cartels,
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Speaker 1: at some point of the transition process of those drugs,
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Speaker 1: the cartel was involved. And I don't care if you're
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Speaker 1: in China, you're in Australia, or if you're in Alaska.
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Speaker 1: That's just how it works. These guys have cornered the market.
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Speaker 1: That's around 15 tons of ice, ecstasy, cocaine, and the
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Speaker 1: returning evil of heroin. But we all know that heroin
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Speaker 1: is going by the wayside. And what might have been
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Speaker 1: mistaken for heroin is now, of course, a derivative of fentanyl.
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Speaker 1: There are places here in the United States where you
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Speaker 1: can't even get heroin anymore for the most part. Nobody
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Speaker 1: even wants to get it. Why? It doesn't get you
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Speaker 1: as high. Look, when you're a drug addict and you're
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Speaker 1: a junkie, you're looking to maximize that high every time
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Speaker 1: you mainline some of this poison. So if that means
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Speaker 1: that your boy John OD'd on a hot bag, you're
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Speaker 1: going to go look for that hot bag. You're going
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Speaker 1: to go look for the source. So you can get
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Speaker 1: the stronger version, cut it down a little bit, and
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Speaker 1: make your bag go for Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner
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Speaker 1: Bruce Hill announced more bad news in February this year,
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Speaker 1: saying until 2017, the cartels were sending up to 200
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Speaker 1: kilograms of ice a year. Then we saw a huge
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Speaker 1: jump up to 1.2 tons. Then 1.3 tons, Hill said.
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Speaker 1: And now remember, this was all pre-pandemic. And I'm just
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Speaker 1: giving this article to you folks for some context. So
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Speaker 1: you understand that when we're talking about the Al-Madin clan
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Speaker 1: and the Hamzi clan at war over drugs, well, those
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Speaker 1: drugs are originating somewhere else. They didn't fall off the
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Speaker 1: magic drug bus. So all of these groups... have to
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Speaker 1: have associations with the Sinaloa cartel, the Gulf cartel in Colombia, CJNG,
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Speaker 1: or insert other provider here. And what that does, obviously,
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Speaker 1: is it gives these cartels a foothold in these other nations.
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Speaker 1: It's Mexico's Sinaloa cartel that's the biggest supplier of cocaine
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Speaker 1: and ice to the voracious Australian illegal drug market. And
21:06
Speaker 1: I've been saying that for a minute. The Sinaloa cartel,
21:08
Speaker 1: when we're talking about internationally, they have it on lock.
21:12
Speaker 1: These dudes are, they've been around forever. They have a reputation.
21:16
Speaker 1: They've worked with the Camara. They've worked with the Andrada.
21:19
Speaker 1: You name it. And these guys have been involved with it.
21:23
Speaker 1: And when you have guys like El Chapo, El Mayo, etc. Well,
21:28
Speaker 1: these are the kind of guys that elicit fear and
21:33
Speaker 1: respect from these international criminal organizations. So when these guys
21:37
Speaker 1: want to do business with you down in Australia, if
21:40
Speaker 1: you're the group that's receiving the supply, you're going to
21:43
Speaker 1: be ahead of the game right away because your supplier
21:46
Speaker 1: obviously is better than anyone else's. The cartel's dominance of
21:52
Speaker 1: the Australian market was driven by its founder and until
21:56
Speaker 1: recently its leader, Joaquin Arcavaldo Guzman-Lorea, famously known as El
22:01
Speaker 1: Chapo or Shorty. And this was one of the big
22:04
Speaker 1: strategies of El Chapo. He was very, very intent on
22:08
Speaker 1: getting Sinaloa into some of these international markets. He kicked
22:12
Speaker 1: down the door with China as well. They were the
22:16
Speaker 1: ones who started that business deal with China, bringing in
22:19
Speaker 1: the precursors, sending the coke in. And now we see
22:22
Speaker 1: how that's ended up. Before, when we were getting fentanyl
22:26
Speaker 1: sent to America, it was coming via mail from China, right?
22:29
Speaker 1: Smaller amounts. But once that got kicked in the teeth
22:33
Speaker 1: and the cartels became the main supplier of fentanyl, you
22:36
Speaker 1: know it's going to come in in gigantic portions. And
22:39
Speaker 1: that's certainly what the cartel has done. They bring it
22:42
Speaker 1: in in the metric ton. There's no mail deliveries anymore.
22:47
Speaker 1: They're bringing it in by boat. If we're talking about Australia, boat, air,
22:50
Speaker 1: you name it. Here in America, well, there's just a
22:53
Speaker 1: billion ways to get it here. But the point is,
22:56
Speaker 1: it's coming in, and it's coming in like an avalanche.
23:03
Speaker 1: In 2009, Shorty Guzman made it onto the Forbes magazine
23:07
Speaker 1: list of billionaires. But the U.S. got Shorty. In June,
23:12
Speaker 1: he'll be sentenced for his crimes and likely spend the
23:14
Speaker 1: rest of his life behind bars. And we know that's
23:17
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Dude got convicted and he's spending the
23:21
Speaker 1: rest of his life behind bars at Flomax. We just
23:24
Speaker 1: did an episode talking about his complaints of Flomax and
23:27
Speaker 1: how they're laughable. And look, you play this game and
23:31
Speaker 1: you have all of this power, all of this money. Eventually,
23:36
Speaker 1: it's going to catch up to you. Either you're going
23:38
Speaker 1: to have a jealous associate who decides to clip you,
23:41
Speaker 1: or you're going to run up against the law and
23:44
Speaker 1: you're going to end up in prison. But how did
23:49
Speaker 1: he and his crew of crooks sneak all of their
23:52
Speaker 1: drugs into Australia? Well, one of those ways was by sea.
23:57
Speaker 1: Australia is a soft target for the cartels, with about
24:00
Speaker 1: 7 million 20-foot shipping containers passing through the docks every year.
24:07
Speaker 1: In 2013 and 2014, for example, just 102,288 were inspected
24:14
Speaker 1: externally and 14,788 were examined inside. So that gives you
24:20
Speaker 1: an idea, just a little bit of an idea, about
24:23
Speaker 1: how many of these containers get through without anyone looking
24:26
Speaker 1: at them. And that's why it cracks me up when
24:29
Speaker 1: people talk about the wall. It's just, it's fantasy land
24:33
Speaker 1: to think that the wall is going to stop anything.
24:36
Speaker 1: The sea, And the air is the major pathways for
24:40
Speaker 1: these drugs to come in. And when you talk about
24:42
Speaker 1: the United States, obviously, the road as well, right through
24:46
Speaker 1: the ports of entry. It's the easiest and safest way
24:51
Speaker 1: to get the massive amount the market demands into the
24:55
Speaker 1: distribution network, especially in Australia. And you look at those
24:59
Speaker 1: numbers that are provided here, it's pretty stark to think about.
25:02
Speaker 1: You have these... containers coming in, over what, 6,880,000 of
25:07
Speaker 1: them don't even get checked? How many of those have contraband?
25:12
Speaker 1: How many of those have illegal drugs? How many of
25:15
Speaker 1: those could have illegal arms being shipped from Ukraine into
25:19
Speaker 1: Australia so they can transit to the cartels? Now, I'm
25:22
Speaker 1: not saying there's any evidence of that, but the likelihood
25:26
Speaker 1: of it is pretty significant. Considering they can move drugs
25:31
Speaker 1: like this, that means they'll use it to move anything. Remember,
25:35
Speaker 1: when we're talking about the cartels, we're not talking about
25:38
Speaker 1: a bunch of just brain-dead thugs that don't know what
25:40
Speaker 1: they're doing. These are great businessmen and women. And they
25:44
Speaker 1: certainly know the logistics of the game and how to
25:47
Speaker 1: facilitate organized crime entities like Guzman and his Sinaloa cartel
25:51
Speaker 1: at one end and our local outlaw motorcycle gangs at
25:54
Speaker 1: the other. Secretly mark containers carrying the drugs using their
25:59
Speaker 1: own code so only they can readily identify them on arrival.
26:04
Speaker 1: They then take them far from the wharf to the wholesalers.
26:08
Speaker 1: The sheer volume of containers means risk to the crooks
26:11
Speaker 1: is low. And that's why they use this strategy. And
26:14
Speaker 1: the bikers are definitely one of the outlets. But we
26:18
Speaker 1: also know that the Warren clans, the Hamzis and Al-Madin,
26:21
Speaker 1: definitely another source and another outlet. And I'm sure that
26:26
Speaker 1: there are other organized crime groups that have their fingers
26:29
Speaker 1: in this pie in Australia as well. You might be
26:35
Speaker 1: surprised to know that the cartel has its own small
26:38
Speaker 1: secret airline. Undercover agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA,
26:43
Speaker 1: found pilots were offered $ 500, 000 to fly 500 kilo loads
26:46
Speaker 1: of cocaine and other drugs into Australia. Small jets and
26:53
Speaker 1: twin propeller planes are the most popular. And they do
26:57
Speaker 1: have a whole fleet of planes. There's no doubt about that.
27:01
Speaker 1: They've been doing it forever. The Mexican cartels have known
27:07
Speaker 1: having your own planes and your own pilots is a very,
27:10
Speaker 1: very good option. When you're talking about bringing in massive
27:13
Speaker 1: loads of cocaine or other drugs into the United States
27:16
Speaker 1: or elsewhere, it just makes sense to have your own
27:19
Speaker 1: fleet and your own team. and U.S., Canadian, or Australian
27:25
Speaker 1: pilots are preferred and considered less conspicuous than Central or
27:30
Speaker 1: South Americans. They land in remote or small airports with
27:33
Speaker 1: no customs or immigration posts. The profits, usually piles of cash,
27:39
Speaker 1: are loaded on board for the return trip and destined
27:42
Speaker 1: for the cartel's sophisticated money laundering schemes. I wouldn't be
27:46
Speaker 1: shocked to know that they have a bunch of money
27:48
Speaker 1: laundering schemes set up right there in Australia. I haven't
27:52
Speaker 1: looked too deep into that, But usually wherever the cartel goes,
27:55
Speaker 1: they set up terrestrial money laundering locations to help facilitate
28:00
Speaker 1: this sort of thing. Whether by air or sea, the
28:05
Speaker 1: cartel's drugs are quickly assimilated into a long-established and well-honed
28:10
Speaker 1: distribution network dominated by outlaw motorcycle gangs, masters of logistics management.
28:16
Speaker 1: They often work in collaboration... with other organized crime organizations,
28:21
Speaker 1: such as Middle Eastern and Asian gangs. And that's where
28:24
Speaker 1: you see the clans come in, right? And again, the
28:28
Speaker 1: cartels don't care who they work with. They will work
28:30
Speaker 1: with anyone to get these drugs to market, as long
28:33
Speaker 1: as your money's right. If that bag is secured every
28:37
Speaker 1: single time it should be, and there's never no issues
28:39
Speaker 1: with them getting paid, the cartels will work with you.
28:45
Speaker 1: Forget turf wars. It's all about the money. and yesterday's
28:49
Speaker 1: enemy might be tomorrow's best friend. The greatest risk to
28:52
Speaker 1: these operations is a leak or an undercover agent, and
28:56
Speaker 1: with dramatically improving communication and global policing, that threat is growing. However,
29:03
Speaker 1: it's a risk many are prepared to take. The profits
29:06
Speaker 1: are just vast. Smuggling small amounts of drugs in your
29:09
Speaker 1: luggage through the airport is a mugs game. Well, there's
29:12
Speaker 1: no doubt. That's a fool's errand. Anyone who's getting recruited
29:16
Speaker 1: to be a mule and smuggling drugs on their body
29:19
Speaker 1: in an airport, especially, they're setting you up for trouble.
29:23
Speaker 1: What's going on is there's a bunch of other mules
29:25
Speaker 1: that are being sent to with the knowledge that some
29:29
Speaker 1: of you are going to get caught. So my advice
29:32
Speaker 1: is to any of you out there that might be
29:33
Speaker 1: thinking about it, don't do it. Hitting home. Shorty Guzman
29:39
Speaker 1: sent a logo card was Mexico's first and is the
29:42
Speaker 1: most powerful with tentacles in about 50 countries. By 2012,
29:48
Speaker 1: it controlled up to 60% of Mexico's drug trade and
29:51
Speaker 1: reportedly supplied 25% of the U.S. market. The cartel raked
29:57
Speaker 1: in around $ 3 billion every year. So we know it's
30:02
Speaker 1: a lot more than that now. And we also know
30:04
Speaker 1: that they're in a battle with CJNG and a few
30:07
Speaker 1: other cartels as we speak. Australia was one of Guzman's
30:13
Speaker 1: prime targets. An incredibly profitable market where demand doesn't falter,
30:18
Speaker 1: no matter how high the price. The cocaine that the
30:22
Speaker 1: cartel wholesales for $ 2, 500 in Mexico can sell in Australia
30:26
Speaker 1: for up to about $ 250, 000 Australian dollars. Australian retail dealers
30:33
Speaker 1: sell a diluted product cut from pure with things like
30:36
Speaker 1: laundry powder for up to $ 400 Australian dollars per gram.
30:41
Speaker 1: Purity down, profit up. A very public arrest in Sydney's
30:45
Speaker 1: affluent Harborside Neutral Bay announced the Sinaloa cartel's presence in Australia.
30:52
Speaker 1: Mid-afternoon on July 26th of 2014, heavily armed police stopped
30:58
Speaker 1: a red hatchback in heavy traffic in Neutral Bay. Astounding
31:03
Speaker 1: shoppers and schoolchildren on their way home. The startled pedestrians
31:09
Speaker 1: quickly and deployed their smartphones, recording police dragging Mexican nationals,
31:14
Speaker 1: Frederico Gonzalez Magana and Juan Vergara Rodriguez from the car.
31:20
Speaker 1: A subsequent search of their apartment near Beachside mainly found
31:24
Speaker 1: Australian dollars, 30 million, and crystal methamphetamine, and another 2
31:30
Speaker 1: million in cash and two handguns. The tip-off to the
31:33
Speaker 1: operation was suspicious money transferred, detected by Australian authorities. So look, folks,
31:40
Speaker 1: when I tell you that Sinaloa's there, that's not me
31:43
Speaker 1: just blowing smoke. These guys are everywhere, and Australia included.
31:48
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that Australia was such a prime
31:52
Speaker 1: location for Sinaloa, but say what you will about El Chapo,
31:55
Speaker 1: but the man knew his business. The two men faced
32:00
Speaker 1: a trial by jury in the NSW District Court in 2016,
32:06
Speaker 1: charged with traffic in a commercial quantity of a controlled
32:09
Speaker 1: drug and deal in proceeds of crime. The cash, police seized.
32:15
Speaker 1: Bergara was acquitted of both charges. Magana was convicted. And
32:19
Speaker 1: on August 19th, 2016, he was sentenced to a total
32:23
Speaker 1: of 18 years. He'll be eligible for parole July 24th
32:28
Speaker 1: Of 2025. Now again. These dudes don't want to go
32:32
Speaker 1: to jail. Outside of their countries. I can guarantee you that.
32:36
Speaker 1: But it just shows you. That the representation of the
32:39
Speaker 1: Sinaloa cartel. Is all the way up. These dudes are everywhere.
32:44
Speaker 1: And anywhere that they're doing serious business. You're going to
32:46
Speaker 1: find their representatives. On the ground. Birthplace, Sinaloa, home of
32:53
Speaker 1: the cartel, is a Mexican state on the country's northwest
32:56
Speaker 1: Pacific coast. Culican, a city of around 900,000 people in
33:01
Speaker 1: the municipality, is the capital. For Australians, it's a place
33:06
Speaker 1: where two young surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas from Perth,
33:10
Speaker 1: were murdered in December 2015 on Sinaloa's Benito Juarez Tollway,
33:17
Speaker 1: known locally as the Highway of Death. 100%. Look. It's
33:21
Speaker 1: a dangerous place for anyone. But if you're an outsider,
33:25
Speaker 1: you have to check in with the local jefe right
33:28
Speaker 1: when you get there. And they have to give you
33:30
Speaker 1: their approval to enter the city and go about your business.
33:37
Speaker 1: Bandits and cartel soldiers patrol the road looking for opportunities
33:40
Speaker 1: for a fast dollar or potential threats to the cartel.
33:44
Speaker 1: Coleman and Lucas were in the wrong place at the
33:46
Speaker 1: wrong time. From the air, you see how rough and
33:50
Speaker 1: hilly the terrain is. It is dotted with small settlements,
33:53
Speaker 1: often with large trails of smoke streaming from them. Many
33:57
Speaker 1: are clandestine meth labs rather than villages. Sinaloa State's Oscar
34:02
Speaker 1: Aguiar-Solar from the University of Sinaloa describes the state as
34:07
Speaker 1: a harsh, aggressive, and delinquent setting. Kulakan is a chameleon. Look,
34:13
Speaker 1: it's a dangerous place. There's no doubt that Sinaloa is
34:16
Speaker 1: the home to some real dangerous individuals. But it's the
34:24
Speaker 1: environment that the whole nation is facing at this point. Touchdown.
34:31
Speaker 1: On landing, you see an airport stacked with expensive private planes,
34:35
Speaker 1: mainly fast twin-engine aircraft that have both cargo carrying and
34:40
Speaker 1: long-range capacity, and the sprinkling of private jets. The road
34:44
Speaker 1: into the city is home to high-end car dealers like Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Audi,
34:50
Speaker 1: and top-of-the-line U.S.-built SUVs. In a state noted for rural poverty,
34:56
Speaker 1: Kulakan is conspicuously affluent. And the reason is, that's where
35:00
Speaker 1: Sinaloa's home base is. So the businessmen know that they're
35:04
Speaker 1: going to make a bunch of money here having the
35:06
Speaker 1: luxuries that, in other cases, nobody would be buying it.
35:13
Speaker 1: Prowling the streets are gleaming massive utilities. Heavily armed police
35:17
Speaker 1: and body armor stand in the open backs of these
35:20
Speaker 1: Utes and brandish high-powered rifles, machine guns, and shotguns. In 2018,
35:26
Speaker 1: Mexican Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice ranked
35:30
Speaker 1: Culiacan as the 12th most dangerous city on the planet
35:34
Speaker 1: with the unenviable figure of 70.1 murders every 100,000 people.
35:41
Speaker 1: Now think about that for a minute. Dangerous as hell.
35:47
Speaker 1: When I visited the swanky Cayenne restaurant on the lush
35:50
Speaker 1: green banks of the slow-moving Rio, Tamazula, and central Culhuacan,
35:55
Speaker 1: I was probably the only diner without a gun and
35:57
Speaker 1: a bodyguard. It was the cartel's dining room, and heavily
36:02
Speaker 1: guarded SUVs in the car park out front, and seedy-looking,
36:06
Speaker 1: well-dressed men and their glamorous consorts, all with an abundance
36:10
Speaker 1: of bling. With all that security and firepower, it's a
36:14
Speaker 1: safe place in a dangerous city. Unless a rival cartel
36:18
Speaker 1: pops up for a chat. And this was something that
36:22
Speaker 1: was always a fear in 70s, 80s, 60s in New
36:26
Speaker 1: York as well. You go to these mob restaurants and
36:29
Speaker 1: you never know if a hit's going to take place.
36:31
Speaker 1: More times than not, in a mafia hit, it's only
36:34
Speaker 1: the target that gets clipped. But you never know. You
36:36
Speaker 1: don't want to be around in something like that going down, right?
36:42
Speaker 1: Guzman's Downfall The end of Guzman's alternate career as the
36:46
Speaker 1: Harry Houdini of crime came to an end because of
36:49
Speaker 1: the confluence of two healthy egos, his and Hollywood's Sean Penn.
36:54
Speaker 1: Guzman was hiding out in Sinaloa, moving frequently to evade
36:58
Speaker 1: the hunters from both the U.S. and Mexico. While in prison,
37:02
Speaker 1: he'd been working on a film about his life, and
37:04
Speaker 1: had his lawyers prepare documents to copyright his name. Helping him,
37:09
Speaker 1: via regular phone calls, was Mexican soap opera star Kate
37:13
Speaker 1: Del Castillo, who'd been very public in her support. Imagine
37:18
Speaker 1: coming out publicly as a movie star in America and
37:21
Speaker 1: supporting a drug dealer. It would be the end of
37:23
Speaker 1: your career. Even while on the run, Guzman was keen
37:28
Speaker 1: to keep the progress up of his project. So when
37:31
Speaker 1: Kate suggested they meet and bring a friend, Sean Penn,
37:34
Speaker 1: he was over the moon. Trouble was, the authorities were
37:38
Speaker 1: listening in and pinpointed Guzman's whereabouts. Penn used his chat
37:43
Speaker 1: with Guzman for an article in Rolling Stone, which was
37:46
Speaker 1: published on January 9th, 2016. And this is what a
37:50
Speaker 1: big ego gets you, hubris and the rest of it.
37:54
Speaker 1: If you're a mafioso, you want to stay underneath the radar,
37:57
Speaker 1: not be blinging on top of it. The day before
38:02
Speaker 1: the article was published, Mexican Marines stormed a nondescript house
38:06
Speaker 1: in Las Mochis, a city in Sinaloa, about 200 kilometers
38:10
Speaker 1: north of Culiacan. After a gun battle that killed five people,
38:15
Speaker 1: the Marines found and arrested Guzman. A year later, he
38:19
Speaker 1: landed in New York to face trial. However, his departure
38:23
Speaker 1: didn't impede the Sinaloa cartel. No, it did not. And
38:27
Speaker 1: how many times do we talk about that? The strategy
38:30
Speaker 1: of decapitation does not work. And it's not me telling you,
38:33
Speaker 1: it's just look at the scenarios yourself. Shorty's family are
38:38
Speaker 1: both creative and resilient. His wife, Emma, has just released
38:42
Speaker 1: a line of cartel chick clothing to cash in on
38:45
Speaker 1: her husband's infamy. She joins his daughter from an earlier marriage, Alejadrina,
38:50
Speaker 1: who also has her own clothing and accessories line. And
38:54
Speaker 1: we all know she's in jail now too, by the way, Emma.
38:58
Speaker 1: The successor, In January 2019, it was reported that Rafael
39:03
Speaker 1: Caro Quintero, now probably 66, his birth date is a
39:08
Speaker 1: movable feast, is a key target of Australian federal police
39:12
Speaker 1: looking to stop the influx of ice and cocaine into
39:15
Speaker 1: the country. Now, Rafael Caro Quintero was huge in the day.
39:20
Speaker 1: Not so much anymore. Not so much in Sinaloa. He
39:22
Speaker 1: has his own thing going on right now. He is
39:24
Speaker 1: on the run, but he is not a factor within
39:27
Speaker 1: the Sinaloa cartel itself. Nine months before, the DEA said
39:33
Speaker 1: Quinteto was co-leader of the Sinaloa cartel following Guzman's arrest
39:38
Speaker 1: and extradition. We know that that's not the case. It's
39:41
Speaker 1: El Mayo. Both men come from the same inhospitable part
39:45
Speaker 1: of Sinaloa, but unlike Guzman, with every man looks... Quinteto
39:50
Speaker 1: is tall and stands out in any crowd. He's a
39:54
Speaker 1: man with lashings of swagger. Quinteto, a longtime cartel heavy,
39:58
Speaker 1: and one who flaunted his wealth with mansions in Culican,
40:02
Speaker 1: ample bling and glamorous women on both arms. At one point,
40:06
Speaker 1: he even had a pet African lion. So did El
40:09
Speaker 1: Chapo and his kids, remember? They had all kinds of
40:11
Speaker 1: wild-ass pets and crazy stuff. His career hit a hurdle
40:15
Speaker 1: in 1985 when he ordered the abduction and murder of
40:19
Speaker 1: the very brave DEA agent, Kiki Camarena, whose work while
40:23
Speaker 1: undercover was the catalyst for the raid on a marijuana
40:26
Speaker 1: plantation worth $ 5 billion. And that was Caro Quintana's marijuana plant.
40:33
Speaker 1: He was not happy about that shit at all, folks.
40:36
Speaker 1: He was hellbent on making seedless marijuana in Mexico. and
40:41
Speaker 1: he eventually did it, but obviously things in Mexico moved
40:45
Speaker 1: more towards cocaine, so that's the way Caro Quintero went
40:50
Speaker 1: as well. The Los Angeles Times reported Camarena and colleagues
40:55
Speaker 1: had uncovered scenes beyond the imagination of even the most
40:58
Speaker 1: veteran drug investigators. They found acres of desert turned into
41:03
Speaker 1: pot-growing oasis that, through the use of deep underground wells,
41:07
Speaker 1: about 9,000 workers, who had been kept under armed guard
41:11
Speaker 1: to tend the fields, and mounds of harvested marijuana stretching
41:15
Speaker 1: along a road for a quarter mile. Sounds like my
41:18
Speaker 1: kind of party, honestly. Camarena was abducted on February 7th, 1985,
41:24
Speaker 1: as he walked from the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara to
41:27
Speaker 1: a lunch date with his wife. Quintado was at the
41:30
Speaker 1: safe house where Camarena was taken, but left before the
41:34
Speaker 1: torture and beating began. Camarena succumbed to his injuries in
41:38
Speaker 1: the early hours of the next day. Quintero thought he
41:41
Speaker 1: could get away with murder. He was wrong. The FBI
41:46
Speaker 1: and the DEA went hard in the paint, and they
41:48
Speaker 1: went after him and they got him. For a brief time,
41:52
Speaker 1: he was right. He escaped the DEA thanks to the
41:55
Speaker 1: protection of heavily armed officers from Mexico's Federal Security Directorate, DFS.
42:03
Speaker 1: The DEA's Hector Bareles and his team, along with Mexican police,
42:07
Speaker 1: tried to stop Quintero boarding a private jet at the
42:10
Speaker 1: Guadalajara airport two days after Kiki disappeared. Bareles recalled the
42:15
Speaker 1: bizarre scene, saying, upon arrival, we were confronted by over
42:18
Speaker 1: 50 DFS agents pointing machine guns and shotguns at us,
42:22
Speaker 1: the DEA. Outnumbered and outgunned, the good guys stepped back.
42:27
Speaker 1: Policing in Mexico can be complex. And you see this
42:31
Speaker 1: in the show Narcos, if you've watched it, they have
42:34
Speaker 1: this scene where he gets away with the FPS protecting him.
42:39
Speaker 1: And that was something that happened quite a bit in
42:41
Speaker 1: Mexico and still does, unfortunately. A month later, Kiki Camarena's
42:48
Speaker 1: body was found and dumped by the roadside in Sinaloa.
42:53
Speaker 1: On April 4th, Quintado was arrested at his hideaway in
42:55
Speaker 1: Costa Rica and flown to Mexico City. There he was
42:59
Speaker 1: tried and convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
43:03
Speaker 1: Police also discovered five audiotapes detailing Camarena's torture and learned
43:08
Speaker 1: that Shorty Guzman was one of the gunmen involved in
43:11
Speaker 1: the original abduction. And that's always been the talk, that
43:16
Speaker 1: El Chapo was one of the people who abducted him.
43:19
Speaker 1: Now remember, El Chapo wasn't always the boss. He was
43:22
Speaker 1: a prolific hitman, a prolific sicario, and very successful at
43:26
Speaker 1: that job. So he worked his way up the ranks.
43:29
Speaker 1: And when this was going down, obviously, he was just
43:31
Speaker 1: low man on the totem pole. Quinteto was released from
43:36
Speaker 1: prison in 2013 on a legal technicality. He made it
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Speaker 1: to the FBI's top 10 most wanted list in April 2018,
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Speaker 1: and the government is offering a reward of up to
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Speaker 1: $ 20 million for evidence leading to his arrest and or
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Speaker 1: conviction for Camarena's abduction and murder. The announcement of the
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Speaker 1: reward prompted Quintero to give an interview to Mexican news
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Speaker 1: site Asteri Noticia. He denied being a cartel member and said,
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Speaker 1: Now that I'm out, I don't want to know anything
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Speaker 1: about drugs. I want to live in peace. Everyone deserves
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Speaker 1: a second chance. A second chance to run a major
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Speaker 1: drug cartel and one that targets, it seems, Australia. So
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to add some more context to the
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Speaker 1: article talking about Sydney and the drug violence and see
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Speaker 1: where it all stems from. This is the root of
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Speaker 1: the problem right here, folks. This is where the drugs
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Speaker 1: are coming from. These are the people that are bringing
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Speaker 1: it in. And these are the people that are helping
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Speaker 1: get Australia addicted to this poison. And the one thing
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Speaker 1: that I fear is as they continue to get their foothold,
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Speaker 1: they continue to become more powerful in the region, we're
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Speaker 1: going to see a lot more violence, a lot more murder,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately, a lot more death. If you'd like to
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Speaker 1: contact me, you can do that at bobbycapucci at protonmail.com.
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