#171 - Inside Mexico's Narco Battlefield: Sinaloa Cartel are the Good Guys Now? | Luis Chaparro

Luis Chaparro is a journalist / producer moving between the border of Texas and Mexico reporting on narcos, drug cartels, immigration, corruption and more.

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OUTLINE 

0:00 - What’s happening in Mexico right now 

09:42 - The raid on Ovidio Guzman’s home 

39:15 - Damaso Lopez 

47:12 - El Nini 

57:08 - The CIA & El Mayo 

1:09:20 - America’s interest in Mexico 

1:13:12 - The failed raid on El Nini’s home 

1:17:04 - Mexico weed manufacturing plant 

1:22:31 - Implications of drug legalization 

1:28:58 - Managing relationships with sources inside Sinaloa 1:47:25 - Working with FOX & VICE 1:58:41 - Negative psychological impact from reporting narcos 2:10:46 - Political agenda’s & clickbait 2:19:22 - China’s relationship with Mexico 2:26:25 - Journalism is the deadliest job in Mexico 2:35:38 - Upcoming federal elections in Mex