#218 - Mexican Cartels Just Hijacked Military Spy Technology | Luis Chaparro

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Watch the next episode early: ⁠https://patreon.com/dannyjones⁠ Luis Chaparro is an investigative journalist moving between the border of Texas and Mexico covering narcos & drug cartels. EPISODE LINKS https://lchaparro.com https://youtube.com/@luischaparro https://instagram.com/luiskuryaki SPONSORS https://ketobrainz.com/pages/djp - Use code "DANNY20" at checkout. https://ver.so/danny - Use code DANNY to save 15% on your order. FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny 00:00 - Luis on Felix Rodriguez 09:46 - What is the Cartel dynamic in Mexico now? 12:36 - Cartel propaganda in US media 16:49 - Catrel corporate structure 25:43 - Ancient Mayan artifacts 26:55 - Cartel exploitation of fishing trade 33:01 - Cartel guacomole war during Superbowl 37:02 - Farmers fighting cartels 39:06 - Damaso Lopez Serrano (El Mini Lic) 48:20 - Luis' crazy DM list 53:31 - How El Mini Lic contacted Luis 01:04:52 - El Mini Lic wealth 01:08:59 - Luis' 12 hr interview w/ El Mini Lic 01:17:01 - How El Mini Lic became a cartel leader 01:19:51 - El Mini Lic relationship w/ El Chapo 01:28:19 - Vice News bankrupcy 01:33:09 - Publishing the Cartel stories independently 01:40:26 - Los Chapitos requests to buy information from Luis 01:47:59 - Extradition of Ovideo Guzman 01:58:19 - Why does the USA want to extradite prisoners out of Mexico? 02:02:11 - Cartel connection to CIA 02:05:24 - El Plaga (the plague) 02:10:20 - Luis' video interview with El Plaga 02:12:10 - How El Plaga escaped prison 02:19:36 - How cartels recruit young kids as hit men 02:23:32 - Luis' goal is to illustrate the killers, not their idolized lifestyle 02:26:30 - TITAN spy software that Mexian Cartels are using 02:31:12 - Mexican Cartels can live track your cellphone 02:36:09 - Mexican Government selling technology to Cartels 02:43:00 - Cartels making more money smuggling people than cocaine 02:49:19 - Immigrants vs White people working and GDP 02:55:14 - Cartel development over the next 5 years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Luis, welcome back, bro.
0:09.2	Hey, man.
0:09.7	How you doing?
0:10.4	Good, man.
0:11.6	I'm excited to have you back to talk about some of the shit that's going on.
0:14.0	Oh, yeah.
0:14.7	All around Mexico and South America.
0:17.1	And it seems like no one's paying attention to it right now.
0:19.6	But you have had, you've been balls deep in cartel world.
0:23.6	Yeah, dude, I mean, I don't know if locally or what,
0:26.6	but it's just the way things goes, you know.
0:29.6	I'm supposed to be reporting the whole region like Latin America,
0:32.6	but Mexico is keeping me so busy right now.
0:35.6	It's so wild what is happening in Mexico and what is about to happen.
0:39.9	Yeah. And like I was showing you last night, we got the tridents from my boy, Mani, whose godfather is Felix Rodriguez.
0:48.3	We're going to be going to talk to soon, hopefully.
0:50.6	Dude, that will be massive, dude. I mean, I've been after Felix Rodriguez for a while.
0:55.7	I published this story about the involvement of the CIA in the murder of Kiki Kamarena
1:00.4	back in 97.
1:02.2	The first time I published that story was in 2013 in a Mexican magazine called Proceso,
1:07.1	before, several years before the documentary that it's now showing on amazon and um and i try to get
1:13.6	a hold of felix but he's a shadowy man i mean it's it's hard to get a hold of him right you see him
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