Watch Narco Wars on Hulu
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Explore how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with unprecedented power.
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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Key Players in the Mexican Cartels
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes and El Padrino, is a convicted Mexican drug lord Kingpin.
He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946), commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes (“The Boss of Bosses”) and El Padrino (“The Godfather”), is a convicted Mexican drug lord Kingpin.
He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s, the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.
Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for putting in place the murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
He was serving his 40-year sentence at the Altiplano maximum-security prison but was transferred to a medium-security facility in 2014 due to his declining health.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Rafael Caro Quintero
Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s.
He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel.
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Pedro Avilés Pérez by shipping large quantities of marijuana to the United States from Mexico.
He was responsible for the kidnapping of United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, Camarena’s pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, the American writer John Clay Walker, and dentistry student Alberto Radelat in 1985.
After the murders, Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica but was later arrested and extradited back to Mexico, where he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder.
Following his arrest, the Guadalajara Cartel disintegrated, and its leaders were incorporated into the Tijuana Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, and Juárez Cartel.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as “El Chapo”, is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and raised in a poor farming family.
He endured physical abuse at the hands of his father, and also entered the drug trade through his father, helping him grow marijuana for local dealers during his early adulthood.
Guzmán began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s, one of the nation’s rising drug lords.
He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States.
He later supervised logistics for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the nation’s leading kingpins in the mid 1980s, but Guzmán founded his own cartel in 1988 after Gallardo’s arrest.
Guzmán oversaw operations whereby mass cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and heroin were produced, smuggled into, and distributed throughout the United States and Europe, the world’s largest users.
He achieved this by pioneering the use of distribution cells and long-range tunnels near borders, which enabled him to export more drugs to the United States than any other trafficker in history.
Guzmán’s leadership of the cartel also brought immense wealth and power; Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful people in the world between 2009 and 2013 while the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that he matched the influence and wealth of Pablo Escobar.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu
The series 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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 1
How Cocaine Came to America
This episode reveals how a handful of criminals formed the infamous Medellin Cartel and pioneered the cocaine smuggling business in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 2
Mexico’s First Cartel
How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 3
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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 4
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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 5
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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 6
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.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 7
After Pablo
Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 8
Narco Cult
Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 9
Chapo Public Enemy No. 1
The search for the world’s most-wanted drug trafficker – El Chapo – as told by two women from Chicago whose husbands turned against him.
Watch Narco Wars on Hulu – Episode 10
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.
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