
Episode 290: The Beast
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The National Security Threat of the Mexican Government
In 1989, Mexican President Carlos Alina Zagortari publicly said that traffickers have become a national security threat. The word "cartel" started circulating and the last people to hear about it were the traffickers themselves. Some of those notorious traffickers gave interviews saying they first heard of the word cartel when they were already in prison.
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