My friend was in Mexico for a honeymoon. I don't think he realised how close he was to all of this. He says it was the best holiday he has ever had. Turns out the places he went to are run by the mafia so tourists can have a good time.
Rogan said a while back that he was in Mexico with his family at a resort and when they got tho the edge of the little resort town there was a police or military checkpoint (can’t recall which specifically) that were there to protect the tourists and the tourism industry.
@@emeryherman4443 maybe Baja California its gone nuts there over the last 3 years. Acapulco is a no go area now 5 years back it was the number 2 tourist resort.
This is what I've thought all my life. I've seen many videos of people terrified and about to get decapitated and that's so wack I'd be mad if somehow my actions eventually led me to reaching that fate
@@pedestrian_0 you'd be begging to die after being flayed alive don't get it twisted cartels take joy in watching u die this people have cook outs infront of men being tortured
6 months, and I’m the first reply and 16th like, this comment deserves way more attention. I immediately thought of breaking bad when he mentioned the cartel drilling 2 holes for the oil, one to take oil and the other to pump oil in. Just like the train robbery arc in breaking bad
Innocent people have it extremely rough in Mexico. I can’t even fathom on how much pain and suffering they are experiencing. I think everyone who isn’t in that kind of environment on a daily basis should be truly thankful for their life in America...
@@opfreak you just said your homeless and happy with it. Your not in a position to act like you know what your talking about. Sorry. Get some standards for yourself before you come talking to me about the quality of life.
I definitely agree with u man. We should certainly be thankful because the ppl do suffer living amidst all of that no matter how hard they try n avoid it. It makes me be thankful about my living situation we are definitely blessed i feel like not enough ppl realize how good we actually have it. God bless America 🇺🇸
@Eduardo Flores he's going out into Mexico and other dangerous parts of the world in South America searching for information (information that not everybody wants released!)
Jaime Abella at this point, do cartels even care if a fuck ton of information about them gets released? They’re literally above the law now and probably won’t even bother killing journalists. They probably spend more time killing their rivals these days
@@user-qu4on9dm6d The point is, he is socializing with these people, drinking and being in volatile situations. He has to be relaxed because they could turn on him at any moment. They would have no regrets about killing him.
Dan Taylor I mean yeah I get your point but, he probably mastered the art of not getting on the nerves of the cartels which is why they’re still cool with him. As long as he doesn’t fuck up, he’ll live another day
“As long as people still have an appetite for gambling, pornography, drugs, someone will always surface to serve these needs” I’m paraphrasing but it’s from the sopranos, puts it into perspective.
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"how can teenagers kids can think about that stuff". Dude, all teens are capable of this. The error of adults is always undermining and underestimating children because they are seen as innocent but they are not
but it's one thing to maybe think violent shit and another to actually come up with a plan to make people suffer most efficiently, to carry out this type of shit requires so much malice on their part it's unbelievable, and they didn't learn this in videogames, they learned it by seeing others get killed or by grouping with the wrong people, which there are a lot of in there
Bro I hate when my coworkers call out because they’re shitty parents. Why do the smart and responsible people who don’t have their own parasite have to pity and suffer people were not even related to. Like there’s there’s some holier than thou shit when talking about kids.
I bought "El Narco" after seeing this Podcast. It's a very informative book and really dives N2 the depths of the Drug War on the Mexican side. Grillo has nerves of steel
I worked for a pharmaceutical company in Cambrige MA for 5 years. Trust me, they're not different than any other drug cartels. All they do is find ways to make people rely on their drugs. Also, they're rich as hell.
TheLandOfTears s I hate when people act like humans aren’t animal. Who aren’t inept to greed and corruption. Just like the very ones they think they’re better than. When in reality if it weren’t legal to do what hey do and they were in competition with each other it would eventually turn violent. Eric Cartman acting’s like it’s not possible. I guess you don’t know how they test their drugs lmao 😂 fuckin fool do some research if you can find it because they actively hunt down and take any info off the web and pay for drug trials to stay sealed and confidential. Until they are FDA approved. But some in Britain habe come out and holy shit what these people go thru are absolute torture.
Worked as a boyscout instructor back in the day. Whenever a scout would tell my boss a story he’d usually respond with “woof”. Figured it out and had a good laugh with him 🤣
i read your comment before the vid and it didn't make much sense at all. But then after watching the full clip I reread your comment and burst out laughing.
People think I'm crazy when I say we should legalise and regulate all drugs. I always think they just fail to see the bigger picture, only what's going on around them in their own bubble of life.
There are drugs that will destory a person no matter how you regulate it. Meth or Crack is a good example. But we should do it with some of the drugs for sure. Clean Heroin isnt as bad, there are people on it for decades and still do a good job at work.
@@fckprc8149 make all the drugs legal and have jobs drug test for the hard ones, give people free will and they’ll learn for themselves just because meth gets easily accessible don’t mean everyone’s gonna become a meth addict, drug education needs to be increased as well, children should know how bad drugs can mess you up
@@fckprc8149 that's true but legalisation or decriminalisation is a better word will lead to more drug users hoing to rehab instead of prison...and that's the first step for change...don't treat addicts like criminals treat them as patients
In SEA weed is illegal except in Thailand, where it's been legalized, become 3x cheaper, and beought more life into their already vibrant street food and cafe culture
@@Lorendrawn The information that i got is: No, recreational marijuana is still illegal. Thanks to its heavy tourism industry, however, smoking weed in Thailand is a common sight on the beaches of Koh Phangan and Pai as well as in rasta bars. In city centers like Bangkok and Phuket however, you are far more likely to get caught and face criminal charges. Medical is legal but never for tourists! Did this change in the last 8 months?
@G G Prohibition is what gives them the incentive - on both sides of the law. Without prohibition, there is no incentive to violent criminals to take the chances they do.
Lazy Fingers that will never happen, everyone around the world has used drugs since drugs were first discovered. The drugs aren’t even necessarily the problem. But ending the war and then ending prohibition is the only way.
I live in nuevo laredo tamaulipas and work in the US, just yesterday there was a shootout between the military and cartel, 8 cartel members were killed and 3 innocent, tied up, kidnapped corpses were discovered afterwards, tensions never stop, the cartel kidnaps extorts and kills anyone who is not from here or from our bordertown due to rivals trying to sneak in and take over, overall it's too late to be stopped
There's always a solution to things like the cartels. The problem is the consequences that follows, which in this case is short term chaos because countries has let the cartels become so damn powerful.
They've let it get so bad it'd take a small war and careful management of their government afterwards. But I doubt the US government wants to do that especially since most of them make money off the cartels
@@caseycamachoperez7774 what a great idea, it’s totally not like cartels will continue selling drugs and engaging in extortion and human/arms trafficking. Please never vote you mouth breathing idiot
What he is saying is THE ONLY WAY to stop the Cartels. It's just economics : - they make between $15-50 billion a year (the video above says $100B a year) - this is a about 75% of the Mexican state budget - there is absolutely no way you can fight a group/ entity making $100B a year - making drugs legal is the only way to starve them off. There is no other way.
My friends friend went missing and no one had any clue what happened to her. Like a month later they found her car in Mexico completely burned up and abandoned on some desolate road. No body was ever found. Her friends tried contacting her through like ouji boards or witchcraft or seance and they said they finally heard a message from her saying something like "im in a good place. Please stop looking for me. Let me rest in peace. You'll have nightmares if you found out what happened to me" Sad
@@i-...-i802 her husband stopped her from leaving and going back home so he kidnapped her and raped and shot her. They found her body near the airport in like a shack or cave nearby. Her sister is trying to get justice for her and have husband arrested.
Not that simple, cartel profits are so diversified. Human trafficking is hugely profitable. The solution isn’t that simple, Coke isn’t nearly as profitable as fentanyl either
The real solution is legalise drugs and put them in the hands of pharmacists and doctors and stop empowering criminals to profit off this massive market that will not go away!!! You can tax them and put that money into schools and infrastructure and other cool projects rather than taking money from all that to fund a war against drugs that is destined to fail!!! Research Portugal's policy on drugs, it's quite remarkable what they've done with their country in regards to drugs!!!
Its not that we can't stop it, its that we don't want to. The organizations with the ability and power to do something about the cartels make far too much money both combating them and using them to their own advantage to have any interest in stopping them.
@Adam Wagerto use your logic.......Japan did not stop or understand nukes.... So by making your point u also showed a good example for why his comment makes sense.
@@Gblonkers accents fade when you spend time around people who speak your language in a different fashion. If you're from Brittian and live in texas for 3 years you'll sound like an aussie
Gabriel Lukkes given the fact there’s 4 countries in Britain, I highly doubt that. You can’t tell me a Scotsman with a strong Glaswegian accent will sound like an Aussie after spending 3 years in Texas lmao. You’re probably going off a posh south east accent that every American assumes every British person sounds like
@@Gblonkers I know the difference between accents I lived in the UK briefly. And I call each one differently, when I say British I mean England, I'd say Scottish, Welsh, or Belfast separately. But accents change, it tends to take about 3 years. And in about 8 at minimum your accent is mostly gone. In highschool I dated a girl from Spain and she sounded more and more American after time passed, but she was only in the states for a year and a half so she still said "yes" like "jes
@@SvenDzahov My Grandad would like a word, He moved from the South of Ireland in the mid 70's and has been in the Midlands since and sounds like he just arrived. He is now 82. Will a accent dilute sure but disappear completely? No. An Infant or someones accent which hasn't truly developed may loose it. I have friends from all over the UK who still have their accents to this day years after they left their hometown/region. Friends who've come from Poland,Lithuania that migrated with young kids have grown up sounding Eastern European
I know I'm off my rocker for saying this, but as a Mexican American living on the border the first thing my people need to do is stop admiring these people and the rest of the of us need to stand up and try to make a difference.... Tall order.. I know. We Mexicans are proud and strong people. Like Pancho Villa said.....I prefer to die making a stand than living on my knees. Viva Mexico!
that small town where there was an explosion is 15 minutes south of my home in Mexico.... I agree in that the demand of drugs in the U.S is incredibly profitable and seems unlikely that there could be a single solution. you take one out another one takes over. I live in Long Island where living expenses are extremely high yet you here of local drug dealers making good money. Cant imagine what what bringing that profit in dollars to mexico must be to the people profiting.
and then look up what big pharma makes and on which drug you get the most addicts. The illegal drugs dont even come close when you combine them compared to anti depression meds. Or Alcohol....
As a police officer I have no problem with drugs. The problem is that the people that distribute the drugs are truly a menace, especially in my area. I don’t know what the solution is. All I know is I’m gonna keep putting these killers behind bars until someone smarter than me figures it out.
We need more and more of these stories to get out and let people know that it’s not just about the high but how many people have suffered for that high. It’s not worth it.
The ad youtube decided to serve me up on this has the tagline 'ilmaista puuha lapsille' : translates to 'free activities for children' in Finnish. Was a dark but hilarious moment.
These journalists dont get enough credit for the situations they are willing to put themselves in merely to get the truth out and to inform others of the hell that exists in this world
I really like this guys books. Hes one of the few non fiction authors who’s books I’ve reread. They are perfect for when I was working overnight in a convenience store and wanted to do something other than stare at my phone when it was slow. I also can tell this guy is a real deal journalist who is a different breed than most, notice how he didn’t try to pimp his books one time, super refreshing, lol. If you are interested in this type of stuff buy either of his books: el narco or gangster warlords (I haven’t read his other book about the America-Mexico gun pipeline yet but I’m sure it’s dope too) you won’t be able to put it down!
declaring war on the cartels and using the full might of the military would bring the cartels into line but other problems would arise as a result. If people can't buy the drugs then they start trying to make them. That's a big problem. Pretty much what happened in Russia with heroin and the krockadil crises.
regardless of how much force we use they will keep popping back up. we get rid of one cartel and open the door for the next to take over. when you use full on force, which latin america has tried countless times, the casualties of civilians and the chaos in areas with innocents just increases even further. we need to change the way we think about substance abuse and legalize all these drugs that the cartel are profiting from. clean needles and a place to stay is a much better route than death by fentanyl. drug use is incredibly stigmatized and the sooner we learn to accept and attempt to change our viewpoints the sooner we’ll see a decline in overdoses
Mexico is so beautiful but so sad as well , great hardworking people and they also have people who have no regard for life and it’s so so sad to see how torn Mexico is .
My niece's dad was kidnapped by the cartel along with his brother. He was killed and the brother managed to escape. I think he was one of those guys that was victimized into that life.
Didn't Portugal decriminalize everything and their crime rates dropped, aids rates dropped among other interesting changes in their social statistics to the positive?
John Redman That’s the answer. You take away the monopoly away from these cartels and they’ll slowly fade away. Funny how we don’t hear about any “Alcohol Cartels”. Wonder why....
Chanch Chanch If we did it before with that mafia and alcohol and we do it again vs anybody. They make money off Americans who can’t legally buy it in their own country. Think about all the tax money we can generate to change our out look on this beautiful world. There’s chaos and anarchy because it’s illegal.
I give this JRE clip *100% marks* with *5 stars* rating because of that *_Oooooffff_* at the end, ill give my salute to the editor to cut it off perfectly..
*I'm for the decriminalization of drugs BUT as you see in Cali, even tho they legalized weed, the black market has never been stronger. So it DOESNT get rid of criminals, because who wants to pay taxes and double the price when you can get it from José for half the price and double the quantity?*
I looked up what he's talking about with the Mexican pipeline and I've never seen anything on a screen that made me cry...untill I seen what has was talking about...bless all them people...
If you cut their funding by decriminalizing drugs they will panic and violence will increase....in the short term. In the long term things will improve.
Funny how we wont do anything to help a neighboring country but we "liberate" countries on the other side of the earth....ironically those countries have oil.
Yea but that neighboring country is corrupt the cartels basically run the entire fuckin country they got ties to the police local and federal and have ties into multiple different politicians throughout the country Mexico in all reality is a fuckin war torn shithole and just on the brink of being a 3rd world country
We have a treaty with mexico and they’re out Allie...... they request that we don’t send our troops over the border so the only way for us to do so would be to start a war and invade mexico full force with the intention of gaining control over mexico. This would be very bad and expensive and stupid and would cost a ridiculous amount human life. Very VERY very horrible idea. I’m thank god you’re not in control of the USA,! If you were we’d be at war with every other country even our allies due to your “good” intentions and poor decisions.
Plus we don’t liberate that country, we just send troops to stand on the corner of the street and wait until their election is over to make sure it happens and people were able to vote..... we didn’t introduce a part, or candidate or system or democracy or anything we just stayed there while they did there thing and waited for the election to be over so we could leave.
There are no simple solutions you take away one thing it will be replaced by another. As long as people want easy money there will be always situations like that. It’s the same thing when it comes to killing drug lords/their minions. They will be replaced by someone else who wants the power and money. It’s a never ending cycle.
@@CheapGuitarsAndMore ok cool think like a slave then. Yes they can win but not with your attitude. You're tryna teach people to roll over. But my butt aint 4 sale. Oh, and fuck jesus.
Solution: Stop demand. Probably too late for the US but Portugals social re-adjustment is one idea where public health was increased and crime and use was reduced.
They need to legalize weed here’s why if they legalize weed drug cartels immediately go bottom up weed is there bottom line it’s ez to grow and produce u don’t need chemicals except pesticides so just take the drugs from the cartel by legalization and create clinics for drug users.
You actually think that? You realize cartels are involved in literally every illegal activity known to man. Stop them one way and they focus on making more money in other ways
@@user-qz8ye9ij2n yeah nothing like drugs. Kidnapping isn't as lucrative as selling drugs. It will never be. In fact kidnaps without drugs wouldn't make sentence. Legalize and tax drugs. You stop 90% of cartels power and money. In fact make the cartels register as a corporation and start up refinery's that get regulated and taxed as drug companies.
Yeah, meanwhile the US movie and music industry embelish the use of drugs, makes it funny, awesome, even some comedians base their comedy on drug use stories and Mexico, Colombia, and other countries pay with blood their war on drugs.
Solution to literally everything is resource distribution. When everyone has what they need there are no problems. We as a humanity have had the capability for a long long time.
TempeR Swag That's the next phase! after we make Money off the American drugs then we arm up Take over Mexico kill off the government there and all the bullshit and after a couple of years of stacking Bodies then it will no longer be Mexico! we will call it America Jr.
@@luvmywohdes1464 What are you on about? Their number one source of income is drugs. They can steal oil to some degree but after a certain point the oil companies won't be having it. Big oil is not something you can threaten like your average Mexican citizen.
@@bryceheppler7181 I know lots of smart people / leaders who do all kinds of drugs. They're typically smart enough to do them in moderation though. But yes, you're right. Comes down to survival of the fittest / darwinism.
Johann Hari in an early podcast said and I believe him. Legalize it all. Period. Put the money spent on fighting the drug war into medical treatment and social programs for those in need. Everybody is better off.
I guess you think all the money spent on drugs goes to the cartels?? Lmao, nothing comes across our borders more than a handful of times unless it is allowed to!! Do you really think they couldn’t be stopped in a New York minute? Haha.. keep believing everything your told..but one day you’ll have to realize tooth fairy doesn’t exist
TempeR Swag I don’t underestimate them, paper law is no match for the cartel.. wait ah damn minute,! Did you think I meant stop the drug cartels and the Mexican mafia with gov Bureaucracy??? Hell No! Slick Willie didn’t flood our streets with coke and kill them to little boys on the tracks through the Arkansas state legislature... Hell no, he found the most crooked somebitches alive and let them in on the take...
Marc Dunn doesn’t mean it would work in the US. People in the uk have always wanted drinking laws to be the same as over in Spain, Portugal but would never work as the kids have been brought up with a certain mentality that they would just cause chaos. Could you imagine groups of kids legally able to buy drink at 16 let alone drugs? (used to be 14 in some parts of the EU) I’m not talking about cannabis but the main killers (heroine, cocaine). Legalising these would be dumb imo, if those are the drugs you’d like legalised.
@@manikdj123 make a legal age limit for these legal drugs. No minors, plus the legal drugs should only be in specific hospitals on which its very legal to take it.
