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Cartel Propaganda Videos - A History
They evolved from splatter movies on VHS to gunmen celebrating Easter on TikTok
Apr 24
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Ioan Grillo
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MS-13: From L.A. Stoners to "Foreign Terrorists"
The Mara Salvatrucha has a crazy bloody history. Is this its final chapter?
Apr 2
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Ioan Grillo
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The True Story of "The French Connection"
Milou worked with the Marseilles mafia to supply Americans with heroin. So did government agencies.
Jan 4
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Ioan Grillo
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Did The U.S. Army Use Sinaloa Dope?
Evidence is confusing on the alleged World War II pact between Washington and Culiacán
Jun 24, 2024
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Ioan Grillo
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Did The U.S. Army Use Sinaloa Dope?
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When "Los Palillos" Dissolved Bodies in California
The Tijuana Cartel breakaway used a honey trap to seduce victims for their gruesome U.S. murder trail
Mar 15, 2024
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Ioan Grillo
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Cartels As Protection Rackets
How Mexican mobs took over the government’s shake-down industry
Feb 26, 2024
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Benjamin T. Smith
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Mexico's Worst Narco Massacres
Mexico has suffered slaughters like war zones. How do we reckon with them?
Nov 15, 2023
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Ioan Grillo
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How the CIA Promoted Magic Mushrooms
The weirdest story in the drug war connects psychedelics, a Mexican healer, Life magazine and U.S. espionage
Oct 20, 2023
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Ioan Grillo
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America's First Drug Cartel Was Not Colombian or Mexican; It Was The Italian-Jewish Mob
The image of the U.S. mafia shunning drugs is pure Hollywood. Lucky Luciano and Arnold Rothstein built America's narco network.
Sep 11, 2023
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Ioan Grillo
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Chalino, King of the Drug Ballad
I dig deeper into the life of the Sinaloan icon
Jul 21, 2023
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Ioan Grillo
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