Narco Wars
Chasing the Dragon
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Network: National Geographic
Season aired: 2022-08-03
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Overview
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.
About This Season
Vietnam vets, mobsters, the Mujahideen, the CIA and Mexican drug lords: all play their part in this epic new season exploring the international heroin trade – and its deadly consequences in America and around the world.
Episodes · 6
How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
Prince of Death
Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
The Mob and the Mujahideen
The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.
Narco Jihad
DEA agent Jeff Higgins sets out to avenge 9/11 by taking on an Afghan heroin kingpin and proving the close link between narcotics and terrorism.
Pain Pill Nation
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
Opioid Apocalypse
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG
