Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
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Published 2023-05-02
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Fentanyl drug use was the biggest cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45 - more than gun crime, more than road accidents.
The synthetic opiate killed at least seventy thousand Americans in just one year.
Fentanyl is smuggled across the Mexican border by the Sinaloa drug cartel, and US authorities have charged dozens of its members with trafficking - including the three sons of its leader, El Chapo Guzman, who's now in a maximum security prison.
To grasp the dimensions of this deadly trade you need to confront the people behind it.
We did just that.
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All Comments (21)
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We can truly say that the drug business will never end.
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I quit IV heroin in 2015. I thank god every day for my good timing..
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I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to fentanyl. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
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"no one is forcing them to take it" ouch, that phrase was brutal. Certainly many people choose to consume drugs as recreation in USA but some of them don't really know what exactly they are consuming (it's not like they put the ingredients chart in the products) even so, the fact that is one's own choice to indulge in recreational substance still holds true and that's the reason this phrase was so on point and brutally honest
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I once watched a movie where a drug lord said: Americans are thirsty for drugs! If they wanted candies I would sell candies to them, but they want drugs, so that's what I'm selling to them! This is terribly true though.
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So the CIA, FBI, NSA, US military, and a government that has $150,000,000,000 to send to Ukraine can’t find these guys and stop their operation but this one British journalist can find them and film them. This shows you where the US government’s priorities lie.
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Legend says, " Thry send us weapons, and we send them drugs "😂😂😂😂😂
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At the very least, I now grasp the concept of leverage. Creating wealth and financial freedom isn't as tough as many people believe. Building wealth and remaining financially stable indefinitely is a lot easier with the appropriate information. Participating in financial programs and products is the only true approach to make a high income and remain affluent indefinitely.
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Would be great to see a documentary about how drugs are supplied to every town in the US by American organizations without being spotted by any law enforcement agency. The easiest way for politicians is to look abroad to hide their inhability to deal with the problem. The US has to stop blaming it on other countries and take care of the problem they created.
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There is a drug culture in the US. Drug is glorified in music, you’ll see people do drug in Festivals, college campuses, Corporate Events, Name it! You have politicians talking about doing drug in College! What do you expect, Supply and Demand game which is Basic Economics. When there is extreme demand, the supply will always find its way. That’s why the culture has to change first
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Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
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Here in Boston, it's a complete disaster with fentanyl. I've lost my sister and other family members from this and a ton of friends who I grew up with.
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Damn they were trying to make Mexico look bad but just ended up getting lectured on how the country of the United States 🇺🇸 has a big demand for this drug
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Take care of your addicts USA, help them to recover & do something about gun trading with criminals!
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Lost my former sister in law to a real bad drug overdose earlier this year,I didn’t know about it, she mostly kept her life mostly private. I heard it was a unknown drug that ended her life, but I’m pretty sure it was Fentanyl that she took and nothing else.
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Channel 4 news... by far THE BEST news channel!! ... ❤ ...
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“Nobody is forcing them to use it” he’s right so blame the users😂😂
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"Its their problem not mine, nobody is forcing them to use it" straight facts Pablo im not even mad at ya
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It would be bad business for the justice department to completely stop drugs from entering the us.
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Dude the fact the the media can just go into these places and like record and the ones doing this still doing it and getting away with just makes me think everyone’s all in on it. If the ops really wanted to get them they would’ve already.
