Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Will Grant, the BBC’s Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, was recently on the ground at Jalisco’s Rancho Izaguirre, dubbed ‘Mexico’s Auschwitz’, and CECOT, Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador. Will spoke to Sean about what he saw in both places, how politics and organized crime is coverging, what new Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum can do without triggering full-scale war — and how populism and the mob have often gone hand-in-hand across Latin America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.6	An unassuming spot, three buildings in size, buried in the middle of a sugar cane plantation lined with dusty palm trees.
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1:29.6	popped with bullet holes. But the officers knew it wasn't right already. A tip has come in
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