#436 - Trump's Narco Deal, Cartel Cannibals & Mexico's JFK Files Revealed | Ioan Grillo

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Ioan Grillo is a journalist from the UK who has been living in Mexico since 2000, writing stories, books and making documentaries about Mexican drug cartels and organized crime.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Mexico Journalism & Cartel Turf Wars

07:47 - Los Zetas, Military Defectors & Mexico's Cartel War

11:18 - How Cartels Control Mexican Police & Government

20:44 - Sinaloa's Governor & Alleged Chapitos Ties

22:26 - El Mencho's Killing, CIA Drones & Drug Boat Strikes

29:31 - Colombian Pro Bono Drug Smuggling Case

32:42 - Trump's Cartel Deals, Honduras Pardons & Maduro

39:41 - Maduro's Capture, Cuban Guards & Sonic Weapons

44:17 - Venezuela's Collapse, Mass Migration & Voting Machines

48:17 - Venezuelan Police, Airport Detention & Fear

53:08 - Kidnapped At Gunpoint: A Cartel Reporter's PTSD

57:08 - Cartel Cannibalism & Training Camps

01:06:07 - Mexican Marines & A Family Massacre

01:08:21 - Mexico's Mass Graves & Families Searching For The Missing

01:15:52 - Sinaloa Turf Wars, Forced Recruitment & State Police

01:21:11 - Lucky Luciano, The CIA & America's Drug War

01:26:16 - El Mayo's Kidnapping & The Sinaloa Cartel Families

01:30:39 - Meeting El Chapo's Mother In Sinaloa

01:39:28 - How El Mayo Was Tricked & His Plane's Museum Plaque

01:47:21 - Mexico's Indigenous Militia & Cartel Resistance

01:50:28 - El Mencho's Death & Alleged Military Execution

01:56:17 - Pegasus Spyware, Cartel Phone Hacks & Weaponized Drones

02:05:05 - Could Cartels Acquire Nuclear Weapons?

02:05:10 - Cartel Terror Tactics & The Siege Of Culiacán

02:13:30 - Stolen Ancient Artifacts & Cartel Contraband

02:14:53 - Would Drug Legalization Weaken Mexico's Cartels?

02:20:34 - Chinese Meth Superlabs, A $205 Million Bust & Vegas

02:30:16 - Chinese Fentanyl, Mexican Opium & The Heroin Boom

02:40:18 - Cocaine's Boom Years & The Economics Of Trafficking

02:46:06 - Cartel Wealth, Billionaires & The Pursuit Of Power

02:49:12 - El Salvador's Gang War & Bukele's Mass Arrests

02:53:00 - MS-13 Origins, Black Sabbath & Los Angeles

03:00:11 - Nayib Bukele's Background & El Salvador's Crackdown

03:02:54 - The Bukele Wallet Story

03:06:50 - Javier Valdez, El Chapo's Family & Murdered Journalists

03:15:31 - How Mexicans View Americans & US Intervention

03:17:21 - CIA Officers, A Cartel Lab Raid & Car Bomb Allegations

03:28:17 - Interviewing Cartel Hitmen & What They Get Paid

03:32:54 - Seized Cartel Phones & Government Corruption

03:37:28 - Police Leaking Witness Statements To Cartels

03:39:52 - Cartel Punishments, Informants & Fear

03:43:19 - Jamaica's Dudus Coke & Gang-Controlled Communities

03:46:50 - Brazil's Comando Vermelho & Favela Parties

03:52:14 - Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico Trip, The CIA & DFS Files

03:59:10 - Oswald, The Cuban Embassy & Competing JFK Theories

04:04:26 - Fidel Castro, JFK & Cold War Assassination Theories

04:07:27 - The CIA & The Term Conspiracy Theory

04:08:39 - Adam Curtis, Media Narratives & British Documentaries

04:11:05 - Ioan Grillo's New Book & Reporting From Mexico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices