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The Underworld Podcast

Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

He’s a recluse, a cockfighting high-roller, a former cop and a maniac. But will Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, do what he’s been threatening for years and become the most powerful cartel boss on the planet? From avocados to abogados, weed to coke to fentanyl, Mencho is a narco so bloodthirsty his men are compared to ISIS. Can the Mexican state cut him down to size? Or will a lifelong quest to build a citadel in his home state of Michoacan come off, ruling local civilians with a sadistic iron fist? We look at the past, present and future of who might just be the scariest criminal we’re profiled on this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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paranormal investigators, alien abductees, bigfoot trackers,

0:38.5

monster hunters, time travelers, alternative archaeologists, remote viewers, and more.

0:43.5

As I was on the way to Area 51, I was stopping on the side of the road and just taking measurements,

0:49.7

and I found this one spot where time slowed down by a fraction of a second. It's not supposed to do that.

0:56.1

From the two big categories, animal mutilations and human abduction, you have to conclude that genetic

1:02.9

material is being harvested. Well, I reached for a rifle, and I turned and looked, and it was already

1:09.0

moving away, and it was descending the bluff.

1:11.6

There's no way any human could have went down it.

1:13.9

It was probably a 75 degree angle straight down almost.

1:17.8

On Richard Serrett's Strange Planet, we're redefining reality.

1:22.8

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

1:26.1

Do not go any further.

1:28.4

Turn around. Go home.

1:34.9

April 2015, around 3pm, on a winding pass in western Halisco State, Mexico.

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Blue skies and a burning sun and a road carved between two mountain sides.

1:49.0

A convoy of police officers is snaking along the Sunkiss Highway towards Guadalajara,

1:54.5

the country's third largest city.

1:57.1

These are no ordinary beatcops.

1:59.2

They're elite troops of the Fuerza Unica, Helisco, the state's top men.

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