When the 'War on Drugs' got literal, and how it could end
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Drug cartel weaponry has gotten deadlier. In 2015, a Mexican army helicopter was shot down in the state of Jalisco. The local cartel used a rocket-propelled grenade to do it. And for years, drug gangs have worked on their navies, moving from cigarette boats to homemade submarines. They have air forces, as well, and fight pitched battles against the army in Mexico and other places. But things are changing.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. |
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| 0:19.0 | The opinions expressed in the show description to support now. The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. There's a feeling that, you know, the US sends the guns and the money in Mexico and Colombia pay with their lives. |
| 0:38.5 | When a drug cartel has the means to blow a government helicopter out of the sky, when the U.S. Coast Guard has to face off against submarines instead of rubber rafts. |
| 0:44.0 | It's time to ask if your law enforcement issue isn't really a shooting war. |
| 0:50.0 | This week on War College, we discuss how what was once hyperbole became reality, the |
| 0:56.4 | War on Drugs. |
| 0:58.4 | You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing |
| 1:06.6 | on the stories behind the front lines. |
| 1:09.4 | Here are your hosts, Jason Fields, and Matthew Gault. Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Jason Fields with Reuters. |
| 1:23.4 | And I'm Matthew Galt with Wars Boring. |
| 1:25.5 | Gabriel Starker is a Reuters reporter in Mexico City. |
| 1:29.4 | He grew up in the UK and has worked in Germany, Mexico, Colombia and across Central America. |
| 1:35.0 | He has regularly reported on drug gangs, immigration, and violence. |
| 1:40.0 | So Gabriel, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:43.0 | All right, we're going to start off with like a crazy big picture question. |
| 1:47.0 | Why is there a drug war and when did it actually start? |
| 1:52.0 | There's a drug war because there's demand. And when did it actually start? |
| 1:53.0 | There's a drug war because there's demand for illegal substances, |
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