I hung out in the most dangerous neighborhoods inside of one of the most dangerous cities on earth,

Tijuana, Mexico. And what I saw was even wilder than I could have imagined.

Most of Tijuana right now is a bunch of people sleeping in Tijuana and traveling to San Diego to basically work.

This is the last border city before you cross into the world's largest drug market.

I thought I wasn't going to make it past 23, 21.

I thought it was, I just wanted to live life fast and whatever happened, happened.

You get grabbed by a cartel group, they might not do anything to you.

But the police and the military, they're going to do something.

Their culture of torture and physical torture, mental psychological torture in Mexico is vast

and old.

It's a hellhole and it's's really a torturous place.

Tijuana, or T.J., as the locals call it, is the most crime-ridden city in the Western Hemisphere.

It is a true Wild West town, where anything and everything is for the taking, and murder is as easy as negotiating

a price. While all of the eyes of the world are fixed on the recent capture of Sinaloan Kingpin

Mayo Zambada and the bloody struggle for power in Kulia Khan, TJ is quietly resuming its rank

as one of the most murderous cities in the world, with as many as 10 homicides taking

place every day. That's a low number. Even cops and prosecutors get hit up in this town.

So who are these underworld players fighting for their slice of a billion dollar Tijuana to San

Diego black market? And how was the shifting drug policy in the United States affected the criminal

gangs and cartels in Mexico? To answer these questions, we toured Tijuana with former T.J.

cop and current knife mogul Ed Calderon and podcaster Fernando Puente, a former dope boy and

human smuggler who ran the streets of Tijuana for decades. What we found was nothing

...