700: Ioan Grillo | How America Arms Gangs and Cartels Part One
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ioan Grillo (@ioangrillo) is a contributing writer at The New York Times specializing in crime and drugs. He is the author of El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency; Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America; and Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels. [This is part one of a two-part episode. Stay tuned for part two later this week!]
What We Discuss with Ioan Grillo:- How did Ioan Grillo -- a journalist from the UK -- find himself covering the illicit guns and drugs trade from behind the scenes in cartel-controlled Mexico and other pockets of Latin America?
- The opulent cemetery where narcos are buried in multi-leveled, air-conditioned mausoleums that would make the ancient pharaohs blush.
- The most devastating examples of human catastrophe Ioan has witnessed while reporting narcos-related crimes over the past two decades.
- How much danger is a journalist like Ioan really in while reporting from the thick of such unfettered violence?
- How thousands of children are recruited or forced into doing the cartels' most bloody work.
- And much more...
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| 1:00.4 | Grillo, this episode is heavy-duty. If you've got kids in the car, now is a great time to go to |
| 1:05.2 | another episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show. The drug trade is worth approximately $300 |
| 1:10.8 | billion annually. This is why the most violent rise to the top. Everyone wants a piece, |
| 1:16.2 | and they'll do just about anything to get it. The murder of Lovell in Mexico is just horrific. |
| 1:22.0 | Over 5,000 bodies have been dug up in over 3,000 mass graves in Mexico. One mass grave near a |
| 1:27.8 | middle-class neighborhood had something like 250 skulls in it. I mean, just think about that. Only |
| 1:31.7 | the skulls. What does that mean? 33,000 murdered last I checked, and these are statistics that are |
| 1:37.1 | rising by the dozens every single day. Just an unbelievable amount of sadness and a horrific, |
| 1:44.4 | horrific violence in Mexico. We're going to talk a lot about that today, as Yo-On has been embedded |
| 1:49.8 | in these cartels, has worked a lot in the scene writing about drug dealers and cartels, |
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