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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Ioan Grillo - Cartel Wars & The Fentanyl Crisis

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Cartels, drugs, money, corruption—author and award winning journalist Ioan Grillo has seen it all in his twenty-plus years' of covering Latin America. In this episode, we cover the unprecedented violence that broke out in the city of Culiacán after Mexican authorities recaptured Sinaloa cartel leader Ovidio Guzmán, son of "El Chapo."

Grillo breaks down the inner workings of Mexico's most notorious cartels, their recruitment strategies and growing turf wars. We cover the issues with the US / Mexico border and how fentanyl has revolutionized the drug business while wreaking havoc throughout the country. We'll discuss the question—Should cartels be designated as terrorist organizations? The answer isn't as simple as you might think.


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31 comments:

  1. Watched this yesterday enjoyed it the whole show went over fast.

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    1. For reals dude, shiver my timbers.

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    2. 9:47
      Offer input on the article, who cares, if you saw it yesterday, or the day before or at your Tio Agustin's house.

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  2. Cool.
    And Luis Chaparro appeared on Konkrete podcast again.

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    1. That dude doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

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  3. Is there any reason BB hasn’t reported on cartel plaza boss El E uno operating in Phoenix Az directly under Ivan and Los Chapitos ??? He is responsible for all the fent coming in from Mexico and is arming the Sinaloa cartel. He sends guns to Mexico and the trailers come back with fent but it’s all hush ??

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    1. The solution to all your problems is easy. All you have to do is get off your ass and start sending in links. Show me some pictures, videos, or audios where this is established that this guy is doing everything you claim. As much as you’ve been repeating yourself with the same words for several days now show me some proof.

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    2. That dude for sure came from the narco footage Reddit page lol

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    3. LoL 😂 12:20
      Instead of complaining, get off the couch and send him links.

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    4. Most likely he heard it in a corrido 😂

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  4. Did anyone notice on HBO's The Wire back in 2004 when they were already talking about fentanyl?

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    1. I remember that. When McNulty went to the morgue right?

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  5. RIP
    COMANDANTE FANTASMA
    CJNG(URUAPAN) 🕊

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    1. 2:04 sure with dozens of mugrosos de culos unidos que mando al infierno👻🔥👹

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  6. @Sol -- if you see this, hopefully the latest tweet to your guys' twitter is both a surprise and cool one for you ;)

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  7. I have Grillo's El Narco and thought it was a good read. But he lost me when suggesting the way to victory in the so called drug war would be to legalize hard drugs. What a moron. There are certain influential group that wish to keep the drug crisis at a simmer but not quite a full boil and Grillo helps them along with his dumb ideas. Life is quite good when one is not bogged down with slavery to an addition so best to not corrupt your mind and body with those pollutants. Anyone suggesting otherwise is part of the problem.

    Instead of a video full of "is this winnable??".. "are these group terrorist or not??.." I would prefer a video on how the full strength of a country's military took a real fight to these groups. Offer them a chance to turn themselves in and if they refuse then it is full on war in the name of every broken life their poisons have caused. The problem is easily solved if the top decision makers wanted it so.

    And then follow up with jobs/education programs giving every day folks some work other than the dead end drug trade. The money is there but currently being spent simmering the pot.

    Sol - Thanks for your great work at BB. You are doing a great service keeping folks informed.

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    1. Legalization is only part of the solution; I am an advocate of the Switzerland model, but in my perfect world...

      Drugs could only be taken in a medically supervised setting; no taking home.

      Drug users are registered in a national database, and their current status of using is visible to all.

      Drug users are offered the opportunity to have dedicated psychotherapy anytime and work with career recruiters. If they deny it, they have to sign a release.

      Possession/Sales laws will be severe enough to ensure the addicts go to only the official and supervised "dispensaries"

      After continuing to use past 30 days, the person has to undergo one session of proper education on addiction and the effects of drugs

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    2. Drugs are bad, no doubt, but did you ever read about how successful alcohol prohibition was 103 years ago? It made low level criminals kingpins. When they repealed prohibition, said badgiys needed new hustles but the damage was already done. Pipsqueak gangsters were now bosses. That's what the argument about legalizing entails

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    3. 2:40 You lost me at the 2nd sentence.. Grow a fucking brain kid.

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    4. 4:47 All of those are horrible ideas. No use at home? Databases? You people are nuts

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    5. you can't solve it by trying to kill them all. only way that works is to wipe out the entire population. because it's a necessary source of income for so many. they will always be willing to risk death for they have no choice. they need money.

      so the only way to address it, is to reduce the income from it by legalising it and ending the criminal monopoly on production. that would crash the prices instantly and it would become less viable. it's prohibition that makes it so lucrative.

      the more drugs you get rid of and suppliers you get rid of, the more valuable the drugs become. you cannot win like this. it's a flawed strategy that will never succeed. denying that perpetuates this insane situation.

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    6. 4:47 So basically… you don’t want to do anything that will actually solve the problem. GTFO

      Legalize and regulate it like alcohol. End of fucking story.

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  8. I'd like to congratulate Drugs on winning the war

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    1. Because you offer a dumb remark I hope the shiver my timbers guy pisses on you.

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  9. Two types of folks showed up in this thread
    1. The Seemingly addicted such as 4:47 PM who would go to great lengths to continue consuming. Stop advocating folks waste their time jumping through hoops to continue drug consumption. Just give it up and live free.

    2. Cowards who will not fight for what is right - Their health and society at large.."We cannot kill them all"..."Prohibition failed..." and "grow a brain" dummy 4:47 PM thinking getting smart means legalizing drugs...a freedom is slavery kinda guy.

    Heads up...the collective West mainly the USA has subdued more formative opponents (japan and germany) than than a bunch of drug cartels and gone on to dominate the entire planet of 8 billion people. But somehow would be unable to stop a relative small number of criminal groups dispensing poisons? Wake up, the illegal drug trade continues for one reason and one reason only, the powers that be find it useful. Otherwise, it would not be allowed to continue.

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    1. Freedom is slavery? Legalization doesn’t mean more use. What you think of the drug use overall is irrelevant

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    2. Freedom is quality control

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    3. 5:06 PM...drug use is the root of what this is all about and without, none of this would even be a discussion. Permitting availability of drugs both illegal and legal will only increase the use and it will continue to morph..once was plant based, now is lab based. In future, the labs will continue producing more variety. Folks need to put down the drugs and learn life without bondage to an addition is the answer. As for what I think of drug use is irrelevant, what then are these comments for but to express an opinion ie what one thinks?

      5:07 PM...freedom is not quality control. If you are using, put it down and become human again. Life in the pursuit of quality narcotics is doing it wrong.

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    4. 11:28 Drug use IS human wtf.. That’s literally as human as it gets. You are proof that abstinence causes delusions

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