On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, journalist and author Noah Hurowitz joins Federalist Political Editor John Daniel Davidson to discuss his book “El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord.”
“El Chapo’s rise coincided with all of these big changes. In the ’80s, with the advent of cocaine, there’s just more money than ever because you can make a lot more money trafficking cocaine than marijuana and the ability to corrupt entire volumes at the Mexican state,” Hurowitz said.
Corruption in the drug smuggling industry, Hurowitz explained, is “institutionalized” in the Mexican government.
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