#171 - Inside Mexico's Narco Battlefield: Sinaloa Cartel are the Good Guys Now? | Luis Chaparro

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Luis Chaparro is a journalist / producer moving between the border of Texas and Mexico reporting on narcos, drug cartels, immigration, corruption and more. EPISODE LINKS https://youtube.com/@LuisChaparro https://www.instagram.com/luiskuryaki JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon DANNY https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 0:00 - What’s happening in Mexico right now 09:42 - The raid on Ovidio Guzman’s home 39:15 - Damaso Lopez 47:12 - El Nini 57:08 - The CIA & El Mayo 1:09:20 - America’s interest in Mexico 1:13:12 - The failed raid on El Nini’s home 1:17:04 - Mexico weed manufacturing plant 1:22:31 - Implications of drug legalization 1:28:58 - Managing relationships with sources inside Sinaloa 1:47:25 - Working with FOX & VICE 1:58:41 - Negative psychological impact from reporting narcos 2:10:46 - Political agenda’s & clickbait 2:19:22 - China’s relationship with Mexico 2:26:25 - Journalism is the deadliest job in Mexico 2:35:38 - Upcoming federal elections in Mex Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Luis Chapado is back.
0:11.0	Hey, compa.
0:11.7	Thank you, bro, for coming, man.
0:13.4	If anybody knows what the fuck's going on in Mexico right now, it's you.
0:17.3	I mean, unfortunately, probably.
0:20.1	I wish I knew less.
0:22.1	Dude, I could not believe what I was watching when I was watching you walk through Ovidio's house after he was captured.
0:30.0	Yeah, man.
0:30.7	What gave you the idea to go to his drive to his house and walk inside and start filming?
0:36.0	And maybe for people that aren't familiar
0:39.2	with the whole thing just give me like a rundown of like what's going on in Mexico right now sure
0:42.4	definitely so right now uh Mexico and the US is going full on after Los Chapitos faction right
0:49.6	the Sons of Al Chapo Gussman that he inherited the, you know, like the power in the Zinolo
0:55.0	cartel to his three sons. Two of them are Guzman Salazar, which are like blood brothers
1:01.2	and Ovidio, which is a half brother of him. Ovidio, Guzman Lopez is from a different mom.
1:08.3	And this, in 2019, they already had tried to arrest Ovidio in Kulakan.
1:14.4	That's the famous video, right?
1:16.2	Exactly.
1:16.7	What we call it Kuliacanazo when they went apeshet against the government and forced the government to let a video go, to release a video after he was already been arrested, right?
1:30.0	And so after, I guess that was like a big shame for the government. It was embarrassing to
1:37.3	to see how a kid forced a whole government to let him go, you know? So I guess he got confident in like, you know, this is not going to happen again
1:48.1	because they know what they're going to face.
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