Published On Jun 16, 2021
In the Mexican War on Drugs, the word, “cartel” gets thrown around a lot. The Sinaloa Cartel; The Gulf Cartel; La Famillia; Los Zetas.
But who actually are these organisations which have inflicted grotesque violence on Mexico – and made billions of dollars in the process? How did they grow from small smuggling gangs, to mighty empires – and then splinter into separate factions each fighting one another?
And, crucially, what role did the War on Drugs itself play in making this violence inevitable?
Correction: June 17, 2021
An earlier version of this video showed footage of the Zapatistas when referencing the Zetas.
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