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NARCO STATE: Inside Mexico’s Drug Cartels
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NARCO STATE: Inside Mexico’s Drug Cartels

23 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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One of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels lets Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay inside its operation, granting him access to industrial-scale drug labs that most journalists never get near. The film follows the supply chain from production to export, showing how gangs across the country manufacture crack cocaine and methamphetamine for buyers in the United States and, increasingly, Europe. Ramsay's camera captures the scale of the labs directly rather than through reenactment, and the report frames the trade as an economic system as much as a criminal one, a billion-dollar-a-year industry that reaches into legitimate business, local politics, and everyday life across Mexico. There is no narrator standing outside the story here; Ramsay is the on-camera guide, and the access itself, granted by the cartel rather than seized by the journalist, is part of what the film is examining. It ends without resolution, because the trade it documents has none.