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REPORTER (over TV):
Shake this square world
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and blast off for Kicksville.
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NIXON (over TV): Public enemy
number one is drug abuse.
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NANCY (over TV): Just say no.
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REAGAN (over TV): Halting the
drug problem in America is
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like carrying
water in a sieve.
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BUSH (over TV):
Take my word for it.
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This scourge will stop.
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WOMAN: There's now an
understanding that the war on
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drugs was an abject failure.
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MAN: You have to stop
and ask yourself,
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how did we get here?
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TRUMP (over TV): We
will build a wall.
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(theme music plays)
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(sirens)
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CARL: I was a special
agent with the
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Drug Enforcement Administration.
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And I was in charge
of the Mexico section.
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All of a sudden you see
this new group popping up
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on the radar screen.
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They went to a nightclub,
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and a small nightclub
there in Michoacán.
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(cheering)
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And our men dressed
in black came in.
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(cheering)
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(gunshots)
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Shot the guns off
into the ceiling,
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made everybody
lay on the floor.
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And then they threw five
freshly decapitated heads
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in the middle of
the dance floor.
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IOAN: Next to these
five decapitated heads,
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there was a narco
message saying,
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"La Familia doesn't
kill for money.
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It doesn't kill women.
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It doesn't kill
innocent people.
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Only those who deserve to die.
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Everyone should know that
this is divine justice."
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This was one of the weird
features right away when
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La Familia Michoacana
broke onto the scene.
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They were claiming this
religious inspiration.
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They were claiming
to be holy warriors.
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MAN (over TV): The
cartel's philosophy is
rooted in religion,
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saying that they are
protecting the state's people
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as part of God's work.
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IOAN: This was one of the
wake up calls about something
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really bad is
happening in Mexico.
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Who are this crazy drug
cartel down in Michoacán?
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What the hell is
going on down there?
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MAN (over TV): Drug
enforcement officials call it
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the crack of the 90s.
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IOAN: You had loads of people
right across America who were
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getting really bad
crystal meth addictions.
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PHILIPPA: Meth gives
you a rush of euphoria.
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You feel immense pleasure.
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You feel invincible.
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Even the most repetitive task
feels totally mind‐blowing.
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CARL: It's just such
a devastating drug.
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You see people that you would
think were in their 50s and
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find out they're only
in their early 20s.
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They would sit there
and just shake,
scratching their face.
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MAN (over TV): Meth destroys.
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The high is a lie.
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PHILIPPA: The
problem with meth
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is that you can
make it yourself.
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MAN (over TV): What you need
to make meth is all legal.
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Available at a hardware
or a discount store.
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PHILIPPA: A number of labs
exploded in the United States
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and that's when it became
the wild, wild West.
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IOAN: Now because the
United States saw a bunch
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of profit off crystal meth,
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they passed the 2005 Combat
Methamphetamine Act.
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And this banned the
precursors for meth.
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CARL: They pushed
the production from
the United States,
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south of the
border to Michoacán.
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IOAN: Michoacán is a state
on the West coast of Mexico,
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to the South of the
Sierra Madre mountains.
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About the size of Virginia
in the United States.
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Michoacán is a place with
having Lazaro Cardenas,
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the biggest port in Mexico.
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Right on the Pacific.
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You could buy the raw
ingredients from
countries like China,
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bring them in
through Lazaro Cardenas,
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and then create
massive super labs
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and really start
churning meth out.
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CARL: This group was basically
started by a man by the name
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of Nazario Moreno González.
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The Most Crazy One
was his nickname.
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IOAN: Nazario is one of the
most mysterious figures in all
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of Mexico's narco wars.
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There is no video of
him and few photos.
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And even with
the ones we have,
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there is doubt whether
they really are of him.
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But we do have his writings.
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He came out with this book,
Me Dicen: El Mas Loco .
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They call me the maddest one.
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He talked about growing
up in wretched poverty.
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IOAN: He grew up in a little
hamlet in the Tierra Caliente,
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in the hot land of Michoacán.
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I mean, really kind of
desolate bandit country.
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They had a long history
of drug trafficking,
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certainly a lot of people
living on the edge
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of the law there.
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When he was a, a young man,
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he had a really
crazy temper.
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He would snap very fast.
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He was playing soccer,
there was a fight broke out.
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And these guys started
really smashing his head in.
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So he was flown to a
hospital in Mexico City
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and they cut his head open
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and put a metal plate
to bind his skull up.
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His face would like
bulge as he got angry
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because he had this kind of
weird look with a metal plate.
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So he was kind of a scary guy.
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A kind of James Bond villain.
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He was kind of seen as the,
the craziest of all.
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El Mas Loco.
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IOAN: Nazario Moreno
was the founder
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and head of La
Familia Michoacana.
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His right‐hand man is Servando
Gomez Martinez, La Tuta.
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CARL: What we saw was
it literally came in
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like a flood.
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They made an enormous
amount of money very, very,
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very fast.
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IOAN: So this one regional
cartel were suddenly pumped
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with billions of dollars
and became a major player
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in Mexico.
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IOAN: Now there's a lot of
bad publicity of the Zetas.
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We were seeing in the
newspapers about massacres
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by the Zetas.
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About how evil, horrible
this drug cartel was.
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So Nazario Moreno
declared war on them
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and the Familia Michoana was
about defending the state of
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Michoacán from the Zetas.
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CARL: La Familia became so
dangerous because that was
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their instrument,
to run the Zetas off,
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so they could
regain their state.
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Within three years of throwing
the heads on the dance floor,
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Mexico declared La Familia
the most dangerous body
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to the security of
the state of Mexico.
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(laughs)
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CARL: They do this thing we
call the Robin Hood effect.
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They would repair a road
or they would clean out
an irrigation ditch,
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or build a school house.
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And then they would
publicize that.
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They were very
good at publicity.
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Letting people know,
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especially in areas
they want to control,
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what they were
capable of doing.
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Either in a good
or bad situation.
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The La Familia essentially
became the de facto government
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because the local
government were so weak.
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IOAN: I mean you know, 2006,
nobody really understood or
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expected the level of
violence that would blow up.
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The homicidal rate
skyrocketing by mass graves
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across Mexico.
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IOAN: Felipe Calderon
wants to show
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he's the new sheriff in town.
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That the state is
having power again.
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(speaking native language)
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IOAN: I went to Aqualia
one of these big narco towns
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and I saw the troops
pouring into the town.
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Helicopters and
lining people up,
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putting their T shirts
over their head
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and guns to their head.
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Very quickly you start
seeing big problems
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with military offensive.
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(rapid gunfire)
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The military could
win those gunfights,
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but the cartel could just
disappear into the mountains.
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So Apatzingán is, is the
biggest city of the hot land,
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Tierra Caliente area.
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Cradle of the La
Familia Michoacana.
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Very close to where
Nazario Moreno grew up.
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IOAN: But Nazario Moreno and
the La Familia Michoacana
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had the advantage of
knowing the territory,
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So they have a guerrilla
group which is fighting very,
very dirty.
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CARL: What they realized was
they could move their market
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to smaller rural cities.
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But they were sending
people up there that
didn't have addictions,
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didn't have problems.
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Just fit into society.
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Strategy wise it was a
pretty brilliant move.
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WOMAN (over TV): In
this surveillance video,
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a man removes
methamphetamine from the
wheel well of an automobile
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and hands it to a woman
who wraps it in a
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blanket before
picking up her child.
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This is part of the smuggling
and distribution network
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of the Mexican cartel
known as La Familia.
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ERIC: While this cartel
may operate from Mexico,
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the toxic reach of its
operations extends to nearly
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every state within
our own country.
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CARL: We had to stop them.
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We had to stop La Familia.
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MAN: Stand by.
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MAN: Good to go.
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(gunshots)
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(shouting)
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(radio chatter)
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ADRIAN: You're good.
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Alright guys.
Here's, uh, here's
how this is gonna go.
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We're gonna take this
house from the back.
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Meth is our number one
narcotics issue in our county.
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We've been conducting a
two‐month investigation
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on this drug dealer.
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MAN: Good?
MAN: Good to go.
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ADRIAN: We had intel that
he went to Phoenix last
night and re‐supplied,
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so we're hoping
to find methamphetamines.
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The intel we got is that
this subject's armed.
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We don't know what to expect.
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He's very dangerous.
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CHRIS: Once you're on scene we
should have both doors taken
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and breached.
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Hopefully within a minute.
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Okay guys, stand by.
I want you to stand by.
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MAN: Stand by.
MAN: Stand by one.
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(gunshots)
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(shouting)
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MAN: Hey, come down here
and get a gun on this.
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MAN (over loudspeaker):
Residents, come out of
the house.
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MAN: Sheriff's office,
third floor!
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Come out now out of the house!
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MAN (over radio): We got
the main target out.
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CHRIS: Come to me!
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Come to me!
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Yeah, we got it.
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We got cuffs?
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It's here guys,
it's here somewhere.
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It's here.
We just gotta find it.
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It's right here.
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MAN: Nice.
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ADRIAN: Mike, if we found
two little baggies with meth,
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it's here.
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Like there has to be more.
255
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Another one?
Oh yeah, there you go.
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Have you checked that jacket?
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Oh, right here.
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WOMAN: Woo!
ADIRAN: Boom, look it.
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WOMAN: Good job.
ADRIAN: Jacket.
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This is a war against
the drug cartels.
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We're in Southern
part of Arizona,
United States,
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and we're seeing this.
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This came from Mexico.
This came from a drug cartel.
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♪ ♪
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(speaking native language)
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IOAN: The Federal police found
out that Nazario Moreno would
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be in a little village
called El Alcalde.
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He would be there for some
kind of Christmas party
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handing out presents.
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They went in there with 2,000
federal police officers.
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But the Familia Michoacana
were burning
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trucks on the road.
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And there was about
500 cartel gunmen.
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They were ambushing
the federal police as
they were coming in,
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from the side of the hills,
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and they just fired
down at them with
everything they could.
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(speaking native language)
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IOAN: Firing AK‐47s
and firing 50 calibers,
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just laying onto the
federal police there.
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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MAN (over TV): Drug cartel
boss Nazario Moreno Gonzalez,
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alias El Chayo,
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was killed in a shootout with
the Mexican army on Thursday.
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Mexican authorities trumpeted
the incident as a significant
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victory in the country's
fight against organized crime.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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(speaking native language)
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IOAN: Then these bizarre
stories came out,
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where Mexican security
forces would raid cartel
safe houses and find,
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like, plastic helmets
they say were being
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used in rituals
of a drug cartel.
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00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,040
IOAN: So the story gets from
kind of being completely crazy
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00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,640
to being over the line nuts.
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♪ ♪
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IOAN: The Knights Templar
distributed this little
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pamphlet around with this
kind of weird series
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00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,120
of religious commandments.
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00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,400
IOAN: There was a
real narco religion
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00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,760
and that was different
than anything we've seen
in Mexico before.
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♪ ♪
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IOAN: They began
to extort people
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on a very systematic level.
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00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:42,720
They began to shake
down lime farmers,
avocado farmers.
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Really control little
institutions, mayors,
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security forces.
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Really beyond corruption,
they really controlled the
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mechanisms of the state.
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Some we could call
state capture,
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and this was very,
very powerful.
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Very hard to defeat.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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FALKO: I first stepped into
Tierra Caliente in 2012,
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00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,800
I had heard all these horror
stories about the area.
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00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,280
They had told me,
of course you can get in,
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00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,000
but you will not be able
to make it out again.
320
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,640
I'm Falko Ernst,
I was a student
trying to learn
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00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,000
and find out about the
drug cartels in Mexico.
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00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,280
I was able to link up with
local peasant organizations
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00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,280
and just by lucky coincidence,
one of the leaders happened to
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00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,600
have gone to school with
Servando Gomez Martinez,
or La Tuta.
325
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,840
After three days on Apatzingán
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00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,600
I received a visit by a
local envoy of the cartel,
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00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,080
who was asking questions.
328
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,960
Checking out if I
really was a student.
329
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,040
And then a couple of days
later I find myself in the
330
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,600
middle of nowhere in front
of an abandoned cemetery
331
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,920
waiting for La Tuta,
332
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,880
who rolls in with
his security.
333
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,440
(speaking native language)
334
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,400
FALKO: La Tuta liked
to hear himself talk.
335
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,560
We got along.
336
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,880
He apparently took
a liking to me.
337
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,600
He promised me a even
better interview
338
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,720
with his boss,
as he said.
339
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,160
And I was kind of like, okay,
I thought you were the boss.
340
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,640
Because your boss
had gotten killed.
341
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,480
So this is me catching a ride.
342
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,120
I'm out off Apatzingán,
into the more rural parts.
343
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,760
This one is gonna take us
right into the heart
344
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,520
of the Templar territory.
345
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,400
I get an invite to one
of the rural communities.
346
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,800
As the party was going on,
347
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,760
I see a convoy of six black
SUVs are rolling in.
348
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,000
Heavily armed people setting
up a security perimeter.
349
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,840
One of his lieutenants came
over and told me that I was to
350
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,000
accompany him to a
table to see el patron,
to see the boss.
351
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,200
He invites me to take a seat.
352
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,800
Introduces himself
as El Chayo, Nazario.
353
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,920
He had placed a anti‐aircraft
rifle right next to him
354
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,400
on the ground.
355
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,320
He had supposedly shot on a
Federal police helicopter
356
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,120
with that very gun.
357
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,200
He handed it over to me.
358
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,520
I handed it back
pretty quickly.
359
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,320
Very much, I think,
to the amusement
360
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,200
of the by‐standing sicarios.
361
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,680
This is so bizarre.
362
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,480
It's so out there that you're
talking about one of the most
363
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,000
bloodthirsty narco warlords
in Mexican history,
364
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,880
and then he
appears before you.
365
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,200
♪ ♪
366
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,760
♪ ♪
367
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,000
♪ ♪
368
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,120
(speaking native language)
369
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,120
♪ ♪
370
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,240
♪ ♪
371
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,920
(radio chatter)
372
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,640
IOAN: This was a
breakdown of the rule of
law in Mexico completely,
373
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,840
to the point where people were
committing vigilante justice.
374
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,680
And people were dying for it.
375
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:05,240
(speaking native language)
376
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,760
(rapid gunfire)
377
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,960
(speaking native language)
378
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:37,320
(woman crying)
379
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,400
(speaking native language)
380
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,240
♪ ♪
381
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,440
♪ ♪
382
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,720
IOAN: It's all very tense.
383
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,080
And I'm watching this thinking
when are the vigilantes gonna
384
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,960
seize Apatzingán?
385
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,520
When is the battle of
Apatzingán gonna be?
386
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:16,840
And this is gonna
be a bloodbath.
387
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,080
♪ ♪
388
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,440
(speaking native language)
389
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,080
(radio chatter)
390
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,320
♪ ♪
391
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,040
♪ ♪
392
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,760
IOAN: Now I heard a
story from people in
the vigilante movement
393
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,480
and they said that the
vigilantes had plotted
394
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,200
with some bodyguards
of Nazario Moreno.
395
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,280
And they turned on him.
396
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,080
And, and beat him and shot him.
397
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,080
And he was killed
by his own people.
398
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:42,840
You had this figure,
this warlord,
399
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,240
who really wanted to
be loved and venerated,
400
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:50,040
and he ended up being
hated and having people
turn against him,
401
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,960
damning his legacy.
402
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,480
♪ ♪
403
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,880
(speaking native language)
404
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,720
IOAN: Very early on when
you had people raising guns
405
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:38,840
against the Knights Templar,
406
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,080
another cartel right away
saw this as an opportunity
407
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,480
to gain ground
in Michoacán.
408
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,840
So it infiltrated elements
of the vigilante movement.
409
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,320
After the collapse of
the Knights Templar,
410
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,320
they went on to become
one of the most powerful
cartels in Mexico.
411
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:02,280
(rapid gunfire)
412
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:07,800
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