Julie no one is immune to it. Among those seduced by the lifestyle, are beauty queens, cops and politicians. Its been called a narco insurgency, gun fights among heavily armed gun car tells have killed thousands. Violence has spiraled out of control and threatened to spill across our border. Narco terrorists have infiltrated 230 american cities. One of them is this person on interview. They said he may have killed up to 30 people. This is war stories, im oliver north coming to you from mexico city. Behind me the National Cathedral in the heart of the sprawling metropolis. The lethal combination of drugs, guns and violence is age old but today its deadlier and bloody than ever. A staggering 11,000 people since 2006 have died in drugrelated violence in mexico. That is more than double the number of americans killed in afghanistan and iraq since 2001. And the effects of this narco brutality are evident well across the u. S. Border. Coke, meth, pot, Illegal Drugs shipped to eastern states. Using atlanta as a major distribution point. They have been found, he is safe and in our custody. The boys kidnapping is believed to have been linked to his grandfathers involvement with mexican drug legallyers. They say mexican car telsz have infiltrated 230 american cities. One of them probably is neighborhood near you. Narcotics and smuggling have long been an issue here, but this is an explosion. We in tucson seeing a proliferation of what we term home invasion. 90 of the cocaine that ends up on our streets travel through mexico. 80 of methamphetamines is produced there. And southern neighbor is the main foreign supply of marijuana its come down, but its gone up. There is violence among these groups. Attorney general mora is top law enforcer. Before his appointment by Felipe Calderon he ran the federal police hand prisons and headed mexicos intelligence agency. We need to recover for mexican families. By summer count, juarez is most dangerous city in mexico. We traveled there to meet the mayor of the town. About 1600 people were killed in the city, close to 800 were buried in unmarked graves. Downtown el paso used to be white. Just a few feet from texas, juarez is the epicenter of a vicious war. Rival cartels are creating mayhem as they battle straight into the heart of america. 1500 died, only 30 were classified as innocent civilians and there were about 50 Police Officers that died. Its a classic turf war between different cartels. They spent 23 years fighting for the Drug Enforcement administration. Recently retired he was in charge of Global Operations for the deas 5300 special agents. Along the southwest border is some of the most lucrative turf in the world. Location, location, location. Ten billion dollars in bulk cash grows the u. S. Mexico border on a given day related to drug trafficking. Ten billion narco trafficking dollars is on par with the Tourism Industry which generated about 13 billion for mexico. During his president ial campaign Felipe Calderon vowed to crack down on the cartels. The army came in with about 2,000 troops. Felipe calderon sent 5,000 Additional Army troops that will join the police department. 45,000 soldiers have been deployed all across mexico, a quarter of the army is now committed to fighting narco terror. Since december 2006, he has waged a miserable battle against the narco kings men, a history of corruption, referred to as this is a jaw dropping example. Watch as 53 inmates scurry out of a prison. Many believe to be cartel hit men. The attorney general has detained some 40 people over this jailbreak. One of the things that Felipe Calderon has done is start prosecuting local officials who are corrupt. So far we have invited among 600 of the Police Officers to very high ranking officers in the state. When the army first dame in a year ago they were stopping police cars and they actually found at least two police cars with drugs in them that were transporting drugs to organized crime. This is the only city that went through a tremendous cleanup process of their police departments. He enlisted to his police chief cruz. He went through the whole cleanup and half of their police force and identified as not being trustworthy. What happened to cruz . The three Police Officers that were protecting him were killed. There were threats on his life. The threats that every 48 hours they were going to kill a police officer. 48 hours later, two Police Officers were killed. To prevent the murders of more of his in men, he reluctantly resigned and left mexico. The Juarez Police 97 is run by former military personnel. 1900 soldiers and Police Officers are fighting the cartels less than a mile from el paso, texas. When we met him in juarez, he had been on the job for only two months. Very sharp young men and women out here. Very good police and with the help of the soldiers it all becomes a stronger force. How many new versus before . Three times. Youve been threatened personally. How were they delivered . Most of the threats are delivered via police radio and every Time Police Officer was going to be killed, you would hear on the radio first it two minutes later someone within the police force would be killed. The grim reality of narco terror permeated mexico. A 2,000 mile border separates it. Can the thin line be protected . Dea and a commando take down a with the port of entry one of the busiest along the border with mexico. Across that bridge, our southern neighbors are waging war against narco insurgents that have murdered thousands and terrorized two nations. What percentage of that is narco killing each other . Its cartel versus cartel. Until august 2009 he was the dea man in mexico. He served as regional director in north and central america. The american marketplace is what is fueling this narco insurgency. Where there is a demand, theyll attempt to supply. Cartels have stepped in to saturate the market. For cocaine they act as middle men moving the drug north from the point of origin in south america. All of the cocaine that is used around the world is coming from one place, the Andean Region of south america. This is columbia, not from where im standing. The foothills of the andean mountains. More than half of the cocaine is produced here. One of them ramirez is awaiting trial on u. S. On trafficking charges. Were equipped and trained to work in these environments in the jungle and do air assault operations. We cant reveal his identity nor of his peers but he has been fighting narco insurgents for four years. Their main goal is to fight the globally recognized terrorist organization more than 10,000 strong. They feel the insurgency down here by the production and sale of cocaine. He and seven other agents make up deanarco jungle operations unit. These are the Columbian Nationalists along with the dea they are about to go on a raid. This is their mission brief. The mission, destroy this facility. It was revealed by a confidential source. The dea shared the information with the Columbian National police. Its teamwork that is second to none. They are very professional and courteous and effective. War stories accompanied the team on the operation. Leading the raid, 35 columbian jungle commandos an elite force trained by the dea and specialist forces. They are very tough guys, absolutely. Dea war stories and they were on the second bird. After an hour long flight. Touchdown everyone fanned out to their positions and trek to the objective. This is a drug wrap high in columbia, triple canopy, subtropical and few degrees from the equator. The lab appeared to house 26 people but no one was there. Judge buying the warm rice and soup on the stove we just missed the narcos. Someone had kitchen duty. Theyre going to miss lunch. Processing the base right now, this is the final process. Cocaine before it hits the streets this is the final process. All the cans of chemicals, how can they get here . How did they arrive here. [ speaking spanish ] over underneath that shelter many microwave ovens. They microwave to dry the cocaine. How long has this site been here, this lab . Maybe one or two months they use, a month or two months and then move. When we go on these missions, we process the scene and look for identifiers and send it back for special tests. We utilize whatever is the laboratory to make a connection and link it up to somewhere in florida, small town in virginia where weve made an impact locally here in bogota but back in the United States. As a special agents gathered their evidence they found a cocaine production log. They had a tally production log and prep, that they had prepped 102. Street value, 1. 5 million and in new york city, twice that amount. In less than two hours, they had rigged the lab to put it permanently out of business. As in all wars, some battles are lot lost and others won. One of the greatest successes was shutting down the south florida and caribbean route used by king pins Pablo Eskobar but that created a new problem. Consequently they form alliances with existing mexican cartels. His nickname is short at this but those staring down the barrel of his gun, he is anything but small. Anything but small. Thththththth my name is blake. I received a heart transplant when i was two weeks old. I play defense for the red hot tornados. Sometimes my heart starts pounding like faster and faster as i go. I know i have someone elses heart inside me. It makes me feel happy cause someone was generous enough to give me a Second Chance to live. This gift of life was made possible by an organ donor. Imagine what you could make possible. Sign up as an organ, eye, and tissue donor. Go to organdonor. Gov. In the late 198officers and 90s american Law Enforcement tightened the noose through the caribbean and south florida. By the time escobar was shot and killed by columbian troops in 1993, traffickers had found new ways of sending their contraband into america through mexico. Mexican drug world was dominated by a genius named amado curteo. Like the one run by curiteo. He was dominating the drug people but dominating the government of mexico through his nifty work, thinking of him as henry ford. He created the conduits and circuits of south america. Ruling through powerful Juarez Cartel the kingpin ordered tons of cocaine and shipped directly to himself in mexico. Eventually smuggling those drugs into the u. S. He died at 41, allegedly from complications following Plastic Surgery to change his appearance. He wired the business so nobody needs an innovator. The shipping routes established by him and additional business of Trafficking Cocaine to the south america helped americans expand the distribution of different drug. Why is marijuana the staple crop . They control it from the point of cultivation to many instances to the point of distribution in the United States. Special agent in charge runs the deas el paso division, covering an area of 54,000 square miles, roughly the size of california. That is about 2,000 pounds there. There is an additional 7,000 pounds there. All of that would be from one organization. This was already on this side of the border. If this marijuana had not been seized, the 15,000 pounds could have fetched upwards of 12 million on u. S. Streets. The major cartels in mexico are the gulf cartels, Tijuana Cartel and out of sinolola and another one. This is one of the most wanted men in mexico. Guzman, king man of the cartel. Nicknamed shorty. He debutted as 7801 of forbes list of billionaires. Personal fortune is one billion dollars. He is expanding his market. He was incarcerated in ex can prison and escaped. But translation he bribed his way out of the prison. He has been on the run ever since. Dead man walking. But he also upped the ante ordering to kill anyone that threatens his drug running business including u. S. Law enforcement. You cant stay on the job unless you kill people. The power of the five drug cartels in this country all have been tentacles operating throughout the United States which results in albeit limited, but a very important spillover of violence in our own country. Coming up a prison interview an american citizen recruited to kill for xea ease most brutal cartels. He was a u. S. Army ranger during blackhawk down and now sheet border of mexico with in a different kind of fight. Meet one of americas guardians next on war stories. Im leaving the track behind, but im not standing still. And with godaddy, ive made my ideas real. I made my own way, now its time to make yours. Everything is working, just like it should and helping people schwas my thing. Ist i was very independent and thought i could take care of myself. I fell and i had to have meals on wheels. After my stroke, when meals on wheels started, i was on the other end of the stick, so to speak. Meals on wheels coming to my door, as someone whos housebound, having someone check on me, assures me that i am not forgotten. Meals on wheels has given me a mode of feeling that i wouldnt have otherwise. Were the clients. We are the clients. We are the clients of meals on wheels. America, lets do lunch. Narrator one in six seniors faces the threat of hunger, and millions more live in isolation. Drop off a hot meal and say a quick hello. Volunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch. Org. Tear yate go security situation but that may change as things get worse. 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