Narcos

In 2007, police seized $207 million from the Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon. Could he be the weirdest trafficker in the entire history of the War on Drugs?

The Syrian government have become some of the world’s biggest amphetamine dealers – flooding the Middle East with the drug Captagon to finance their war machine.

Who are the Mexican drug cartels? How did they develop? How did the War on Drugs turn them into billion dollar empires, capable of paramilitary style violence?

We follow the money to find out how the cocaine industry actually works, why it functions the way it does and who bears the responsibility.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán turned Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel into the most powerful drugs gang on the planet. When he was arrested, it unleashed a tidal wave of violence.

Since 2016, criminal gangs have occupied more than a hundred flats in central Barcelona to sell and use drugs, turning them into so-called narcopisos.

Wir unterhalten uns mit zwei DEA-Agenten, die den schwer zu fassenden Kokainkönig jahrelang gejagt haben und damit zur Grundlage der neuen Netflix-Serie 'Narcos' wurden.