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Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

Announcing: Surviving El Chapo Season 2

Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

After billions of dollars and thousands of decisions made over decades as powerful drug traffickers, Jay and Pete Flores are now free and living a new life. But their incredible story is not over. Every time the twin brothers seem to turn a corner, the consequences of their decision to cooperate with law enforcement come back to haunt them.

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0:00.0

Not in all Mexicans who are foreign, my son, you're almost foreign and raised in Chicago.

0:07.0

I've got to speak to St. Jackson.

0:09.7

And I'm Charlie Webster.

0:11.2

Join us as we bring you the epic next season of Surviving El Chapo, the twins who brought

0:16.6

down a drug lord.

0:17.6

There was no book on how to escape a character, but like, I didn't think that we were ever

0:22.9

going to escape out of this and unharmed.

0:26.3

Season 2 picks up the story of Pete and Jay Forrest, the twins from Chicago who became

0:31.3

America's biggest drug traffickers before escaping to Mexico and becoming right-hand men to

0:37.0

the world's most powerful drug kingpin, El Chapo.

0:41.6

But they found themselves faced with a choice.

0:44.4

Become El Chapo or cooperate against him.

0:47.5

I remember when the plane landed, we looking up the window and I just saw nothing but police

0:53.8

lights and lots of them.

0:55.8

I think it was the first time I ever felt like, why are we doing this?

1:01.9

Find out what really happened when they took their first steps on US soil after turning

1:06.6

themselves into the US government.

1:08.9

It was just the beginning of a 14-year journey to turn their lives around.

1:13.2

They're like, okay, guys, it's going to be all or nothing.

1:17.0

It's time for you guys to finish doing your job.

1:20.4

We're going to cooperate against all your customer base in the United States.

1:24.5

I was like, hell no, we're not doing that.

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