#trap #cartel #mafia Johnny interviews narco journalist Luis Chaparro about the state of the Cartel, the decentralization of the business of drug trafficking, and tells a story of almost getting killed on the job, plus more! SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/en#offers Promo Code: CONNECT Luis' Links: https://youtube.com/@LuisChaparro https://www.instagram.com/luiskuryaki/ https://www.lchaparro.com/ https://confidential.substack.com/ Sign up for the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow?fan_landing=true&view_as=public Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/mrjohnnymitchell/ Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6mc4qAxpztC6D20wzeS91C #johnnymitchell 0:00- Intro 1:16- Partying with drug dealers 03:24- Culiacan is one of safest cities in Mexico 04:30- The beers arrive 06:11- Meeting with Sicarios 09:03- Protecting El Mayo Zambada 12:00- The DEA is protecting El Mayo 13:50- The 12 families 16:00- The Sinaloa cartel no longer exists 18:20- The cartel doesn't operate in the US anymore 21:07- US citizens are smuggling across the border 22:35- Mixing the heroin and Fentanyl 28:00- How they traffic cocaine 32:43- It's a buyers market for coke in Mexico 37:54- What groups are moving blow in America? 40:00- Coke deals get funded like real estate deals 46:27- This is the sole purpose of the Cartel 47:50- How Nuevo Jalisco Cartel was formed 50:22- This is how the Cartel takes over turf 52:55- To move drugs you must first have permission 56:00- El Mayo brokered a deal with Mexico to move drugs in from Guatemala 1:00:00- The Cartel might replace the government 1:02:00- The cops are just Sicarios for the Cartel 1:04:34- Violence spikes during elections in Mexico 1:07-43- Every single politician is paid pff by the Cartel 1:13:11- How Kingpins launder their money with the banks 1:15:35- No one wants to be El Chapo anymore 1:17:46- How Luis became a Narco journalist 1:20:54- The time Luis almost got killed 1:29:00- The Cartel is watching you everywhere you go 1:30:59- DEA is in Culiacan 1:33:20- The military is harder to corrupt 1:36:29- The Beltran-Leyva's were sacrificed 1:38:00- Cartel's can't exist without violence 1:40:10- It's only going to get worse 1:46:45- Outro