Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction 

We can truly say that the drug business will never end.

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.

I quit IV heroin in 2015. I thank god every day for my good timing..

Legend says, " Thry send us weapons, and we send them drugs "😂😂😂😂😂

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.

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.

"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

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.

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

“Nobody is forcing them to use it” he’s right so blame the users😂😂

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.

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.

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

Take care of your addicts USA, help them to recover & do something about gun trading with criminals!

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.

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.

Always has been strange to me that these reporters can gain access to these drug dealers and cartels so easily but the government has such a hard time stopping them. Laughable

This is actually a deterrent if anything. Most of my friends that used to do cocaine stopped after they learned about fentanyl being cut into it. Lost 2 friends also.

“ they send a lot of weapons over here , in return we send them a lot of drugs” 😂😂😂…summarises NAFTA😂😂

Cartels organized, trained, financed and armed by the United States and Israel.

"Its their problem not mine, nobody is forcing them to use it" straight facts Pablo im not even mad at ya

How can you manage to get all that info and get a away with it?? No sense.

Thank u for the exclusive content,now I understand whats going on that side. For once I can say happy to not be either 1 of those neighboring countries and super sad to see how people can even support drug lords businesses 😢. Respects from South Africa 🇿🇦 and hope the situation gets better for both countries especially the people who dont bother. Mr president is too soft also not cool if people dying on hes watch

I understand that Mexican cartels are terrible, however I feel like the coverage of the issue is incredibly one sided. The cartels are always pointed at but never the people that fuel them. Cartels exist only because of the costumers and these costumers were there from before the fentanyl crisis. It’s time to start covering both sides.

There are drug labs in every country not just Mexico

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.

started doing drugs since my teenage. Got addicted to heroin for over 16 years. Heroin addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

They make drugs but they don’t use it. How wise their personal choice is.

I understand why the journalist ask did the guy feel bad about people dying. But why dont these journalists ask these alcohol and pharmacy companies the same question because wheter fetanyl comes in or not people will still be dying from alcohol and prescription drugs.

People choose to do drugs, people not taking accountability for their own choices, that's the real epidemic.

Good point. No area needed to grow. Just mix and serve. Seriously. This is a game changer. A sea change.

These men that are cooking the drugs are the most heartless when saying “it’s their problem not ours, we’re not forcing them.” and then goes on to say that it is mistaken for cocaine sometimes. Those men deserve the worst punishment.

It would be bad business for the justice department to completely stop drugs from entering the us.

Whenever there is a demand there will always be supplies.

How did you complete this interview without getting charged yourself?

I think people forget that the cartel life was all the guy knew, even when people work for cartels their life is also on the line if they even say a word about it or refuse to do it anymore which can be a betrayal and can potentially get you killed and he is also right, no one is forcing others to take it it’s simply just there.

The demand fuels the addiction. In order for the whole operation to work. There has to be a demand from the receiving end. Everywhere and the heartland is hooked on fenty

Breaking Bad..loved that show.

The Mexican Cartels are not Mexican but American. Follow tha money . . . .

good work getting the cartel to even allow you to report this.

3:31-3:52“Nobody is forcing them to use it” That means no matter how well-educated you are or not. USE it at your own risk. Fentanyl or not. You knew what your getting in to.

Great reporting. You took a major risk being in that lab, especially without gloves. Luckily you were okay. The inside look of what's really going on is important for people to see.

Mean to tell me cartels have news crews touring their facilities and operations? 🤣

I am extremely curious why they would allow you to film inside and how you convinced them!!

Socio-economic deprivation is the biggest driver in the supply and demand of drugs. Poor people get jobs working in the cartel to escape poverty and Poor people using drugs to temporarily escape the misery of their situation. As long as there's this dynamic in play, nothing will change.

I used to do drugs not anymore what I thought was fun was a downfall and a dark world that just comes to take everything from you even your LIFE if you get a bad batch of that poison!!! Please say no to drugs and if you’re struggling with addiction I pray you can get sober it’s a beautiful life on the other side of that evil sickness!!

As a Mexican, I can attest that the entirety of this film is true; however, in reality, it is even worse than portrayed. The altercations are not limited to just Culiacán (the so-called "Capital del Narco"), but rather, they occur in almost every single state. There is a lot happening every day-stories of murders, robberies, and various criminal activities are constantly being heard and read about. Previously, if you were not involved in the narco/crime scene, you might have been safe. However, at this point in time, almost everyone has experienced a negative encounter in Mexico, including my own family. The government's negligence and involvement have brought us to the state we are in today. Unfortunately, there are not many who are brave enough to take action. Multiple journalists have been assassinated, and anyone who attempts to interfere with narco/government operations faces grave consequences.

Such wonderful neighbors we have.

20 months clean I used to smoke the pills. Thank God I don't anymore bc it was rough.

Crazy that their president has the nerve to say Americans need to keep an eye on the youth like it ain’t gta rp all over Mexico right now

oxycodone, tramadol, morfin… there’s always a new way to keep the drug flowing trough big pharma in a legal prescription.

The drugs business so official they’re just getting producers wanting to interview them🤣✅

So is fentanyl so powerful why are they not wearing any protective clothes in the arms? They making crystal

Can you make a video in America to investigate where do all the drugs come from. As in who creates them and what type of social groups use them. I happen to know some for sure and places where you can start.

Love these videos, just goes to show how little governments regulate crime as long as they get rich too

British, Israeli and American journalists are always welcome by the Mexican Cartels in Cartel land.

Channel 4 - You are showing a meth lab, not fentanyl.

Fake news 😂😂When dealing with fentanyl you need gloves and to be fully covered. The people in the lab never mentioned if it was fentanyl

This is insane.

This will never end,,, but the only thing we can do is spread awareness

This guy has a badass accent. I love it

I remember when people were scared of fent but now people chase the dope man all over town for it. Sad times indeed.

Chairos: Puro Cártel de Miami !!

Great that you’re doing this hit piece, now can you do one for why the US citizens need to do drugs?

Don't buy them. Don't use drugs.easy as that.

U.S. Authorities: "Supply from Mexico creates demand in the U.S. Stop supply from Mexico and our demand will disappear." Mexican authorities: "Demand in the U.S. creates supply from Mexico. Stop your demand in the U.S. and our supply will disappear." Old same debate.

"They send weapons, we send drugs"

That reporter should definitely wear some gloves in that lab!

This is fake, there's another video explaining these are methamphetamines being made. Shame on you.

now is a risky time to be a teenager. one bad choice on drugs can kill you. stay healthy my friends.

That guy is right..”nobody’s forcing them to take it”….I agree..

It's not America or Mexico's fault, they both are accountable and aren't. Because I believe the drug problem should've been dealth with long before drug use became mainstream in the US and cartels became powerful in Mexico

Fake. Do you think the cartel will give you access to their drug operations 😅

life is truly scary, especially where life leads us to the most darkest coldest places here on earth, which we never signed up for this type of life.. may God be with us before it’s too late, Amen. 😢

Drugs, wars and weapons don't kill people, it is the politicians.

Thank you Mexico for nearshoring and relieving our dependence on China

Fake news fentanyl is not produced that way 😂

It is only now that am grasping how potent and dangerous this drug is. Thanks for the documentary, guns from the post soviet space when most guns in mexico are american origin looked a bit off.

We get permission to record? Wow! Can we get permission to close them down?

Dont let the drugs distract you from the missing women and murders that's way worse

50 years ago only 3 people lived in Cancun

Sickening and SAD!!! 😢😢

I take drugs because nobody hugs me.

The book tells the history of how various US presidents intensified their war on drugs, and how Ronald Reagan's success in shuttering cocaine route from Colombia through the Caribbean and Florida forced Colombian cartels to use routes through Mexico for their drug shipments. The excerpt describes how Mexican cartels developed, and how by 1984 they controlled 90 percent of the cocaine coming to the US through their country, generating income estimated at $5 billion. Like all figures linked to narcotics, these numbers are more guesses than statistics. The authors have little sense of the economic dimensions of NAFTA, but they repeat all the prejudices that critics of free trade have attributed to the trade agreement... The authors blame Reagan for adopting the infamous process of "certification" of countries, based on their cooperation with the US in the war on drugs, when it was really Congress that established these requirements on the Executive. Thus, Mexico had to be "certified" in order to access essential credit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), thus avoiding the US veto. It is worth remembering that in 1982, Mexico declared bankruptcy thanks to the populist excesses of Luis Echeverria (1970-76) and Jose Lopez Portillo (1976-82). The book ignores this, attributing all blame on the Fed for increasing interest rates to fight high inflation, which indeed contributed to Mexico's economic debacle at the time, but was not the primary cause. The text also asserts that the IMF and WB forced a structural adjustment program on Mexico: "The creditors demanded privatization of public services, cuts in government social programs, a wider opening to foreign investment, and a ruthless concentration on paying back loans and interest."

amlo esta de rodillas jajajajajajajajajjajaja

Thats some hardware store eh! Im lucky if I can find straight 2 x 4 x 8 boards at the ones i frequent.

I straight up od'ed on fentanyl from smoking a joint. Thought I was just buying some bud. Woke up in the hospital very confused.

This title should be…. Mexico,supplying the drug that the USA created and got out of control.

The penalty for this drug should be the death penalty in the usa!

Mexico is the most powerful country in Latino world!

I would love to hear that the guys making this stuff went to prison and all the drugs were taken and discarded.

5:35 God that minigun action at night is so unsettling

I have smoked weed for a few times but have stopped now and never tried to go up another drug level l. I understand that what goes up must go down and I think it is a failure in life where you cannot seek happiness on your own but have to rely on drugs to feel it and then bear the consequences afterwards

they send guns, otherwise we send them drugs. this one got me

Happy holidays ❤

This is exactly like bad booze during alcohol prohibition and no one has ever gotten a bottle of bad booze from a liquor store! They need to stop the crazy and counter-productive drug war

This disturbing reality underscores the urgent need for increased cooperation between nations to disrupt these criminal networks.

7:25 that is not at all a good translation thats not wat he said and im mad😤

Why they don't make law who says that anyone who is on the streets under fentanyl got detained for 24 hours before a doctor release order and have to pay with 24 hours of community service. Really no politician can do that???

As long as there is a demand for ANYTHING, someone will fill it. NO matter how much you try to stop it if there is money to be made.