92 - Narco-Economics: Inside the Mexican Drug Trade
The Red Line
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The War on Drugs Is a Dismal Failure
The U.S. war on drugs has by all accounts been a dismal failure billions of dollars and thousands of lives have been spent in the pursuit of stopping drugs from entering the United States. The game itself just adapts and changes as an example with the US adapting technology and becoming better at border control cartels simply adapted. Now products like fentanyl a drug much more potent and easier to transport and heroin are now coming across the border in huge amounts. What incentives does the Mexican government have to get involved when much of that money reenters the Mexican economy through the gray and black markets would once of that we did a second guest Part two selling suffering El Chapo has been our focus this week.
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