Cocaine Cartels

“America’s War on Drugs” is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied itself with the mafia and foreign drug traffickers. In exchange for support against foreign enemies, the groups were allowed to grow their drug trade in the United States. The series explores the unintended consequences of when gangsters, war lords, spies, outlaw entrepreneurs, street gangs and politicians vie for power and control of the global black market for narcotics – all told through the firsthand accounts of former CIA and DEA officers, major drug traffickers, gang members, noted experts and insiders.

In the past ten years 200,000 people have been murdered in Mexico. It is more than in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of these victims fell in the streets of Ciudad Juarez, very close to the border with the United States. Today it is the most dangerous city in the world. And the bloodshed never ends.