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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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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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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.
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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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(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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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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IOAN: So the story gets from
kind of being completely crazy
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to being over the line nuts.
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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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of religious commandments.
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IOAN: There was a
real narco religion
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and that was different
than anything we've seen
in Mexico before.
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IOAN: They began
to extort people
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on a very systematic level.
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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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I had heard all these horror
stories about the area.
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They had told me,
of course you can get in,
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but you will not be able
to make it out again.
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I'm Falko Ernst,
I was a student
trying to learn
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and find out about the
drug cartels in Mexico.
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I was able to link up with
local peasant organizations
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and just by lucky coincidence,
one of the leaders happened to
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have gone to school with
Servando Gomez Martinez,
or La Tuta.
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After three days on Apatzingán
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I received a visit by a
local envoy of the cartel,
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who was asking questions.
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Checking out if I
really was a student.
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And then a couple of days
later I find myself in the
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middle of nowhere in front
of an abandoned cemetery
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waiting for La Tuta,
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who rolls in with
his security.
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(speaking native language)
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FALKO: La Tuta liked
to hear himself talk.
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We got along.
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He apparently took
a liking to me.
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He promised me a even
better interview
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with his boss,
as he said.
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And I was kind of like, okay,
I thought you were the boss.
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Because your boss
had gotten killed.
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So this is me catching a ride.
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I'm out off Apatzingán,
into the more rural parts.
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This one is gonna take us
right into the heart
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of the Templar territory.
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I get an invite to one
of the rural communities.
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As the party was going on,
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I see a convoy of six black
SUVs are rolling in.
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Heavily armed people setting
up a security perimeter.
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One of his lieutenants came
over and told me that I was to
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accompany him to a
table to see el patron,
to see the boss.
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He invites me to take a seat.
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Introduces himself
as El Chayo, Nazario.
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He had placed a anti‐aircraft
rifle right next to him
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on the ground.
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He had supposedly shot on a
Federal police helicopter
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with that very gun.
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He handed it over to me.
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I handed it back
pretty quickly.
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Very much, I think,
to the amusement
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of the by‐standing sicarios.
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This is so bizarre.
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It's so out there that you're
talking about one of the most
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bloodthirsty narco warlords
in Mexican history,
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and then he
appears before you.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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(radio chatter)
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IOAN: This was a
breakdown of the rule of
law in Mexico completely,
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to the point where people were
committing vigilante justice.
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And people were dying for it.
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00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:05,240
(speaking native language)
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(rapid gunfire)
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(speaking native language)
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(woman crying)
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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IOAN: It's all very tense.
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And I'm watching this thinking
when are the vigilantes gonna
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seize Apatzingán?
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When is the battle of
Apatzingán gonna be?
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And this is gonna
be a bloodbath.
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♪ ♪
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(speaking native language)
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(radio chatter)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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IOAN: Now I heard a
story from people in
the vigilante movement
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and they said that the
vigilantes had plotted
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with some bodyguards
of Nazario Moreno.
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And they turned on him.
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And, and beat him and shot him.
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And he was killed
by his own people.
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You had this figure,
this warlord,
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who really wanted to
be loved and venerated,
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and he ended up being
hated and having people
turn against him,
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damning his legacy.
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♪ ♪
403
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(speaking native language)
404
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,720
IOAN: Very early on when
you had people raising guns
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against the Knights Templar,
406
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,080
another cartel right away
saw this as an opportunity
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00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,480
to gain ground
in Michoacán.
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00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,840
So it infiltrated elements
of the vigilante movement.
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After the collapse of
the Knights Templar,
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they went on to become
one of the most powerful
cartels in Mexico.
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(rapid gunfire)
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