#46 Ioan Grillo - Cartel Wars & The Fentanyl Crisis

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Cartels, drugs, money, corruption—author and award winning journalist Ioan Grillo has seen it all in his twenty-plus years' of covering Latin America. In this episode, we cover the unprecedented violence that broke out in the city of Culiacán after Mexican authorities recaptured Sinaloa cartel leader Ovidio Guzmán, son of "El Chapo." Grillo breaks down the inner workings of Mexico's most notorious cartels, their recruitment strategies and growing turf wars. We cover the issues with the US / Mexico border and how fentanyl has revolutionized the drug business while wreaking havoc throughout the country. We'll discuss the question—Should cartels be designated as terrorist organizations? The answer isn't as simple as you might think. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://hvmn.com - USE CODE "SHAWN" https://betterhelp.com/shawn https://mypatriotsupply.com https://blackbuffalo.com https://mudwtr.com/shawn - USE CODE "SHAWNMUD" Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this week we have Yoan Grillo on the show at Cartel
0:04.7	Investigative Reporter. He reports on the Cinellua Cartel. We cover all kinds of
0:11.3	cartel stuff and this one to include the exchange that just went down between the
0:16.6	Cinellua Cartel and El Chapo's son. The Mexican government gave up El Chapo's
0:24.1	son to the Cinellua Cartel because the Cinellua Cartel overpowered the Mexican
0:31.7	government. We talk all about it. Hey guys thank you all for being here I love
0:36.7	you all. If you haven't noticed last week we hit one million subscribers and I
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1:32.5	Yo and Grillo welcome to the show man good to be here Sean. I've been tracking
1:38.2	you for a long time it's really really it's just awesome to have you sitting
1:41.9	across from me and with all this stuff going on in Mexico right now we have a
1:47.2	ton to cover. So award-winning investigative journalist produced directed
1:55.9	several documentaries docky series you're an author very well
2:01.7	established in the cartel Mexico space and yeah it's just in honor to have you
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