Narco Wars

2020
4.2
5 reviews
TV-14
Rating
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 How Cocaine Came to America
12/9/20
With interviews from notorious smuggler George Jung and Pablo Escobar's wife and son - this pilot episode reveals how a handful of criminals including the original "Black Widow" Griselda Blanco, daredevil Carlos Lehder and Pablo Escobar himself joined forces to form the most powerful cartel in the world, the Medellin Cartel, which pioneered the cocaine smuggling business in the '70s and '80s.
2 Mexico's First Cartel
12/16/20
When the United States blocks off the Miami smuggling route for Colombian cocaine, an enterprising group of Mexican marijuana traffickers are ready to step in. The Guadalajara Cartel are the first criminal organization dedicated to trafficking drugs into the United States. But when a U.S. DEA officer attempts to disrupt their business, the Cartel take revenge.
3 The Battle for the Border
12/23/20
A young Sinaloan drug smuggler, El Chapo Guzman, goes to war with Mexico's first true cartel, the Arellano Felix Organization, which supplied up to 70% of cocaine consumed in the U.S. The war for control of this billion-dollar cocaine business in Tijuana triggers a bloody cycle for competition and revenge for control of the drug trade that will touch all of Mexico, giving birth to "narco terror."
4 Escobar's Empire
12/30/20
With interviews from Pablo Escobar's wife, son and photographer, this episode reveals how Pablo Escobar built a billion-dollar cocaine empire in the late '70s. When the U.S. and Colombian authorities start to get in his way, he unleashes his fury on his country's politicians and judges – culminating in his first act of narcoterrorism, prompting the violent takeover of Colombia's Supreme Court.
5 Escobar Goes to War
1/6/21
Cocaine king Pablo Escobar fights a war on two fronts, against the authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel. His campaign of terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated, but his enemies are uniting against him. Featuring interviews with Escobar's wife and son, this episode investigates the battle against extradition to the U.S., which threatened to destroy the Colombian state.
6 Rise of the Narco Army
1/20/21
One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico's history. With heavy weapons, military discipline and a ruthlessness that shocks even most agents, this new breed of narcos takes the drugs war to a whole new level. In the face of betrayal, The Zetas make a whole town pay, sparking a manhunt to bring them down.
7 After Pablo
1/27/21
Escobar is dead. The new cocaine kings, the Rodriguez brothers and their Cali Cartel, specialize in corruption – even buying Colombia's presidents. They seem unstoppable until the DEA gets its hands on a mysterious cassette … Featuring the first English-speaking interview with Cali Cartel son and heir, William Rodriguez, this episode charts the rise and fall of Colombia's last big cartel.
8 Narco Cult
2/3/21
To feed America's insatiable appetite for crystal meth, one drug lord builds a billion-dollar empire and forms Mexico's first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars. Charged with militant violence and pseudo-religious beliefs, they turn Michoacán into a narco state. But their reign is threatened by the rise of a historic vigilante movement.
9 Chapo Public Enemy No 1
2/10/21
The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker – El Chapo – as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.
10 The Last Don
2/17/21
After the fall of the Medellin and Cali drug cartels, armed groups seized control of the cocaine trade. By the mid-1990s, Colombia plunges into chaos as communist guerrillas battle far-right paramilitaries. By the end of the decade, their rivalry erupts into an all-out civil war with the profits of the cocaine trade financing both sides as they battle for the soul of the nation.

About this show

NARCO WARS explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. The series combines gripping access to cartel members and the law enforcement agencies opposing them with a deep dive documentary exploration of the geo-political, social and cultural factors that led the cartels' rise.

Ratings and reviews

4.2
5 reviews
deborah elliott
August 23, 2021
This is the "official," sanitized version of the Drug War. National Geographic is too conservative and hidebound to tell you any unflattering or controversial information, just the canned stuff. See Hector Berellez and The Last Narc on Amazon Prime for what really went on, and Hector's book by the same name. Hector doesn't sanitize things.
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Aaron Dominic Banda
July 21, 2021
Nice
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