The Militarization of Drug Cartels (with Luis Chaparro) | Borderland #19

On today's Borderland, Vince talks to renowned journalist, Luis Chaparro.
Luis is based on the U.S./Mexico border, and has over 15 years of experience in reporting on Mexican organized crime. He has extensively covered drug cartels, detailing their operations, leadership, and societal impact. He has interviewed fentanyl dealers and human smugglers, and his reporting also highlights the hardships faced by migrants traveling through Mexico, including encounters with human traffickers and corrupt officials.
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[@thisisironclad]

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[@Robs-pl1jv]

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[@aerok111]

Luis forgot to mention a lot of stuff. He forgot to mention that the cartels hire ex colombian soldiers to help them train their forces, and fight rival cartels. They also hire local army and police deserters.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Even Colombian FARC with bomb making skills

[@jonathanramos8414]

Remember the FARC used to be on the American FTO list a few years ago

[@arielvega6344]

Dude former Mexican American marines are down there training people. You can't take that knowledge once you leave. And those people do it on their own. It's big money. They don't need the FARC, the Cartels contract everyone and they have the money to buy the best. It would be of no surprise to me if rogue former special forces were down there or up here training people. (Military service as a path to citizenship is not goodwill, but a weakness) Cuba is the heart and soul of communism, in latin America those foreign fighters have Russian training. One example of gangs in the military was a Suereño who shot and k illed two officers in CA with an SKS he had under his rain pancho. Edit: Andres Raya, was that marines name. And that happened in the 90s.

[@ElGeeSpot]

They also hired US soldiers, and border patrol agents help them to cross the drugs and all the guns they use are from US

[@mostdefrecords4334]

Mexicans dont like colombians 😂 There are only a few hired a sicarios . Most Colombians have there separate operations

[@_nick_d]

Luis definitely has his finger on the pulse of what’s going deep in cartel organizations. Great guest & questions

[@jonathanramos8414]

He's somewhat of an "activist" but not has overt and in your face as other journalists

[@jonathanramos8414]

He's obviously very biased towards American border patrol Just for being border patrol.....

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[@geronimo6615]

Well done on the interview. Very engaging. Funny story, I watched a “product” transfer yesterday. It was between an older Hispanic couple in an old Chevy truck with Mexican plates and a couple of hardened looking Hispanic dudes in a blacked out Chrysler 300 with paper plates. Just another day in south TX.

[@theone6two3]

It is always so informative, much appreciated

[@officialPROCLUBGOD]

Finally, been waiting for Luis to tap in with ironclad! !

[@tedwunderlich2741]

Just discovered this channel, this is fantastic info. Great interview, will be binging more

[@thisisironclad]

Awesome, thanks for tuning in! Enjoy the binge-watch session!

[@maxcullen3427]

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[@REMYSCH]

Great one

[@blueduster74]

As someone who’s grown up in Vegas and SD, I’m glad someone is trying to expose this for everyone. I’ve been in and out of Baja dozens of times, I’ve been stopped at the border coming back and searched. I clearly am not a smuggler, it makes me wonder if that bait tactic wasn’t used on me. 😂 if you saw my truck you’d get it. The sex trade is something he needs to expose as well. There are cartel “kids” recruiting girls in SD malls for various bs and they get grabbed and disappear forever. I’m sure it happens all across the southwest.

[@prescotttirepros1513]

WOW!!!!!!! Thank you.

[@Acordionista509]

Americans always say " the cartel" 😂😂 like if there is only one 😂😂 oh boy 😂

[@rainmetal]

How is this dude still alive and breathing? Hes one of the best but hes also taking so much risk.....

[@henrylau8122]

Al cien compa chaparro

[@soldieron9965]

Very busy man? Nah he’s been hiding for months already, some one has him shook. He’s getting to close to the sun.

[@alexrandytang]

I like this guy.

[@Acordionista509]

Anyone who says "the cartel" should automatically be dismissed. It is not one "cartel" it's about 200 of them

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

True. But, in the generic sense, their operations are roughly similar, so "the cartel" functions as a stand-in for any form of cartel business activity.

[@victorygarden556]

Naming them often puts you in danger

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[@BamaSquirrel]

Flying the black American flag ✊🏻 we won’t surrender and NO quarters given

[@chrisvldz]

There's a flag for black Americans?

[@ealas12]

What???

[@9Riders]

The cartel pays people in arizona $1000 a head to take them from Tucson to Chandler/ Mesa

[@theone6two3]

Big facts

[@ghernandez2263]

The human smuggling business is just as lucrative as drug trafficking but those human trafficking charges are very serious

[@el0013]

It's not the cartel

[@MortRouge]

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." - Thomas Sowell

[@ohms497]

Luis Chaparro. Cool!

[@jonathanramos8414]

Luis chorro

[@patriciariley5922]

I know Las Cruces well...I was born there and still live in the area... Luis is correct about the cartels down here...been going on all of my life all 58 years . nothing new under the sun 😎

[@jonathanramos8414]

I don't know if Mexico will ever rid themselves of these crime syndicates. Unless they find more honest ways to make a living but it seems you have to be cruel to survive in Mexico

[@GregBman]

Luis’ x profile indicates he’s a lefty, but seems sincere about raising alarms on the US border. I’m thankful he’s doing this because I’m sure it doesn’t make him popular in liberal circles.

[@soldieron9965]

He’s a double headed snake. Dude is all over the place. I wonder who he really works for.

[@gusbatcho96]

So what if he is a Lefty 😂

[@et2012te]

I feel like KZbin monetize your guys' videos pretty hard.

[@ryanb1757]

Luis is a G

[@Isaac-sp9jg]

Es todo el compa luis chaparro

[@jonathanramos8414]

Luis chorro

[@davidantoniomoreira4118]

Asking where the weapons and knowledge is coming from is beyond naiveness... unless the US take accountability to a problem they are directly responsible for there wont be any change in things in the US or Latin America

[@craigelectric5241]

YOUR GONNA HAFTA BREAKIM OFF THOUGH 👀😳

[@atomicgeisha]

I am a white woman who grew up in san Antonio Texas married to a beautiful Hispanic man for 24 years and people here are mostly kind to me as I am kind to them

[@jonathanramos8414]

I'm Hispanic too. But I adore white babes ❤

[@soldieron9965]

I am Mexican, love those white girls. I prefer only white girls. But who the hell cares. What does you being married to a Mexican dude really matter in the grand scheme of things.

[@craigelectric5241]

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🐪

[@incredible3214]

You lost me at 7 minutes. Great job cookie.

[@watkinsinc.7147]

I am debating watching this because it sure seems like America is being attacked from every angle and I am trying to overcome the terror because I don't like it one bit. I refuse to give up and will overcome, but holy hell

[@popeye1313]

It's reality and you should keep up on current affairs as to what's going on in the world and try to be as prepared as possible whatever it is that you need to prepare with whether it be food water shelter ammo whatever it need you need but most of all God almighty Jesus Christ our Lord and savior first and foremost so watch it and don't worry for if God is for me who can be against me

[@watkinsinc.7147]

@@popeye1313 I am.

[@RaisedxFist]

You need to wake the hell up woman, We are LONG past that 'America is being attacked from every angle'. We are past that. We are being dismantled and taken down from the inside and being attacked and invaded from the outside. Rome fell the same way and so will America if We don't get Trump back in office asap, He can buy Us time till he picks someone who can come after him to keep the fight going. Right now the U.N. is taking bets on how much time America has left before it collapses in on itself and then come swarming in U.N. 'Peace-keeping' Troops.

[@officialPROCLUBGOD]

Buy firearms now

[@benjaminp6924]

Observe the commandments of heavenly Father, No Fear

[@davinxi5926]

Your thoughts on the Rachel Morin Killed by a El Salvador cartel member? Just happened today …. Seems like there’s much more going on

[@jonathanramos8414]

El salvador has gangs not cartels

[@ghernandez2263]

Never heard of a cartel from El Salvador

[@SeanHarwood]

That's how stealthily the El Salvadorian cartel rolls lols ​@@ghernandez2263

[@mimusic1853]

El ChAtO is his godfather not grandfather

[@jimmyconway8025]

All those guns from Afghanistan went to hamas

[@everythingisinfinite4602]

I feel like the only reason we haven't liberated mexico is because our own gov cares more about money than helping people.

[@user-cc5ve4nh1s]

That's worldwide policy

[@yeehawanarchist]

"Liberate Mexico" lmao. You say that like your flavor of interventionism is even possible. CBP is a joke, local police can't protect the children of their communities, and our military has lost every asymmetrical conflict it's started I'm the last seventy years. But yeah, invading one of our closest (figuratively and literally) allies is the way to finally win one.

[@gusbatcho96]

You guys couldn't even liberate the middle east relax Rambo 😅

[@robertnelson1098]

They love money and power more then help people..... ANY PEOPLE.....

[@everythingisinfinite4602]

@@gusbatcho96 your what's wrong with the world. You care more about self satisfied greed over helping others.

[@craigelectric5241]

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[@benjih2o792]

All roads least to american nationalism

[@brian.castrejon6888]

Zzz

[@hagestad]

1:00 - this guy is talking total nonsense that journalists probably asked him to. That policy in reality changed very little from Obama to Trump to Biden. it was mostly talk. If he was anywhere close to this subject he would know that.