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Narco Wars

Narco Wars
★ 6.9/10•2020•45m•TV-14•Documentary
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Narco Wars explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. The series combines gripping access to cartel members and the law enforcement agencies opposing them with a deep dive documentary exploration of the geo-political, social and cultural factors that led the cartels' rise.

StatusReturning Series
Runtime45m
LanguageEN
First Air DateDec 9, 2020

Episodes

Episode 1 - How Cocaine Came to AmericaE145m

How Cocaine Came to America

Despite $1 trillion spent on enforcement and 2.5 million death toll, more illegal drugs are being produced, trafficked, and consumed than ever before. Featuring interviews and action filmed with key players on both sides of the law, this 10 part series will examine the drug wars - both past and present - to explain why.

Dec 9, 2020

Episode 2 - Mexicos First CartelE245m

Mexicos First Cartel

How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

Dec 16, 2020

Episode 3 - The Battle for the BorderE345m

The Battle for the Border

El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

Dec 23, 2020

Episode 4 - Escobar's EmpireE445m

Escobar's Empire

Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

Dec 30, 2020

Episode 5 - Escobar Goes to WarE545m

Escobar Goes to War

Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

Jan 6, 2021

Episode 6 - Rise of the Narco ArmyE645m

Rise of the Narco Army

One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico’s history.

Jan 20, 2021

Episode 7 - After PabloE745m

After Pablo

Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

Jan 27, 2021

Episode 8 - Narco CultE845m

Narco Cult

Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

Feb 3, 2021

Episode 9 - Chapo Public Enemy No. 1E945m

Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.

Feb 10, 2021

Episode 10 - The Last DonE1045m

The Last Don

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking

Feb 17, 2021

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