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Narcos & Cartels
The radio goes quiet. A strike team waits in the dark outside a door, and behind it sleeps a man two governments have hunted for years. Narcos & Cartels tells the real stories of the most wanted drug lords in history, from Pablo Escobar to El Mayo Zambada, seen through the eyes of the agents who chased them. Each episode follows one complete case from the first deal to the final fall. You will hear how a poor boy builds an empire that moves tons of cocaine across borders, how the hunters close…
Episodes
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Noriega: The Fall of El General
In the nineteen eighties, Panama sits at the center of a cocaine corridor moving product from Colombia north to the United States, with cartel planes landing…
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Nazario Moreno: Was He Ever Really Dead?
In the years after two thousand three, Michoacan becomes ground zero for a new kind of criminal organization, one that moves methamphetamine by the ton while…
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Big Meech: Empire on the Record
In the late nineteen eighties and through the two thousands, Detroit and Atlanta become the twin poles of the most visible cocaine wholesale network in…
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Rodriguez Gacha: The Fall of El Mexicano
In the late nineteen eighties Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade generating an estimated four billion dollars a year in export revenue, with armed…
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Freeway Rick Ross: Caught by His Own Connection
In the nineteen eighties, South Central Los Angeles becomes the wholesale center of the crack cocaine epidemic, its streets moving weight faster than federal…
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Beltran Leyva: The Fall of El Barbas
In the first decade of the two thousands, central Mexico becomes the contested ground of a criminal network that stretches from the Pacific sierra to the…
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Rayful Edmond: Washington's Most Wanted
In the mid nineteen eighties, Washington DC becomes the deadliest crack cocaine market in the country, its corners running day and night and its homicide count…
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Benjamin Arellano Felix: The Fall of El Min
In the nineteen nineties, the Tijuana corridor becomes the most lucrative drug crossing on earth, controlled by a single family whose reach extends from…
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Dudus Coke: President for Life
In the nineteen eighties and nineties, West Kingston becomes a city within a city, its poorest ward sealed from the outside world by concrete, zinc and armed…
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Lo Hsing Han: Godfather of the Golden Triangle
In the early nineteen seventies, the mountains of Burma's Shan State produce more illicit opium than anywhere else on earth, and the mule trains that carry it…
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Don Berna: The Extradition He Could Not Stop
In the years after Pablo Escobar's death, Medellin's criminal economy runs through a single quiet clearinghouse, the Envigado Office, coordinating debts…
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Roberto Suarez Gomez: El Rey de la Cocaina
In the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, Bolivia's vast lowland territory of Beni becomes the source of a cocaine paste supply that feeds…
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Osiel Cardenas: The Friend Killer's Escape
In the late nineteen nineties, on the flat border corridor between Tamaulipas and Texas, the Gulf Cartel runs cocaine and marijuana through a landscape of…
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Escobar: The Fall of El Patron
In the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade moving roughly eighty percent of the supply reaching…