Narcos & Cartels
by Creators Obomedia
The radio goes quiet. A strike team waits in the dark outside a door, and behind it sleeps a man two governments have hunted for years. Narcos & Cartels tells the real stories of the most wanted drug lords in history, from Pablo Escobar to El Mayo Zambada, seen through the eyes of the agents who chased them. Each episode follows one complete case from the first deal to the final fall. You will hear how a poor boy builds an empire that moves tons of cocaine across borders, how the hunters close in through wiretaps and informants, and the single mistake that finally gives each man away. Some fell on a rooftop in a hail of gunfire, others stepped off a plane in handcuffs. These are true accounts built on court records and the testimony of the people who were there. New episodes arrive every Monday and Thursday at 4 AM. Follow Narcos & Cartels now so you never miss a case. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener
Episodes
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Nazario Moreno: Was He Ever Really Dead?
In the years after two thousand three, Michoacan becomes ground zero for a new kind of criminal organization, one that moves methamphetamine by the ton while distributing bibles and groceries in the same communities it controls. At the center of it is Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known as El Mas…
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Big Meech: Empire on the Record
In the late nineteen eighties and through the two thousands, Detroit and Atlanta become the twin poles of the most visible cocaine wholesale network in American history. Demetrius Flenory, known everywhere as Big Meech, builds the Black Mafia Family into an organization moving roughly two hundred...
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Rodriguez Gacha: The Fall of El Mexicano
In the late nineteen eighties Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade generating an estimated four billion dollars a year in export revenue, with armed men holding territory the state cannot enter. Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, known as El Mexicano for the Mexican gunmen he pays from his…
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Freeway Rick Ross: Caught by His Own Connection
In the nineteen eighties, South Central Los Angeles becomes the wholesale center of the crack cocaine epidemic, its streets moving weight faster than federal agents can map the supply. Ricky Donnell Ross, known publicly as Freeway Rick, builds the largest crack distribution network the city has...
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Beltran Leyva: The Fall of El Barbas
In the first decade of the two thousands, central Mexico becomes the contested ground of a criminal network that stretches from the Pacific sierra to the capital's southern edge. Arturo Beltran Leyva, known publicly by his nickname El Barbas, meaning The Bearded One, builds a command structure…
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Rayful Edmond: Washington's Most Wanted
In the mid nineteen eighties, Washington DC becomes the deadliest crack cocaine market in the country, its corners running day and night and its homicide count climbing toward a number the city has never seen. Rayful Edmond III, known to the street simply as Ray, builds the organization behind…
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Benjamin Arellano Felix: The Fall of El Min
In the nineteen nineties, the Tijuana corridor becomes the most lucrative drug crossing on earth, controlled by a single family whose reach extends from Colombian suppliers to corrupted officials on both sides of the border. Benjamin Arellano Felix, known as El Min, serves as the organization's...
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Dudus Coke: President for Life
In the nineteen eighties and nineties, West Kingston becomes a city within a city, its poorest ward sealed from the outside world by concrete, zinc and armed men. Christopher Coke, known everywhere as Dudus, runs Tivoli Gardens as a parallel government, distributing food and school fees where no...
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Lo Hsing Han: Godfather of the Golden Triangle
In the early nineteen seventies, the mountains of Burma's Shan State produce more illicit opium than anywhere else on earth, and the mule trains that carry it south move on a schedule set by one man. Lo Hsing Han, known across the region as the Godfather of Heroin, controls the largest single...
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Don Berna: The Extradition He Could Not Stop
In the years after Pablo Escobar's death, Medellin's criminal economy runs through a single quiet clearinghouse, the Envigado Office, coordinating debts, violence and cocaine exports across the city's comunas. The man behind it is Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, known as Don Berna, a former...
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Roberto Suarez Gomez: El Rey de la Cocaina
In the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, Bolivia's vast lowland territory of Beni becomes the source of a cocaine paste supply that feeds trafficking networks across the continent. The man behind it is Roberto Suarez Gomez, known as El Rey de la Cocaina, the King of Cocaine, a...
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Osiel Cardenas: The Friend Killer's Escape
In the late nineteen nineties, on the flat border corridor between Tamaulipas and Texas, the Gulf Cartel runs cocaine and marijuana through a landscape of diesel heat, bribed checkpoints and negotiable inspectors. Osiel Cardenas Guillen, known publicly as El Mata Amigos, the Friend Killer, rises…
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Escobar: The Fall of El Patron
In the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade moving roughly eighty percent of the supply reaching the United States. Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin Cartel and known to his own people as El Patron, meaning The Boss, builds a billion...
About this show
The radio goes quiet. A strike team waits in the dark outside a door, and behind it sleeps a man two governments have hunted for years. Narcos & Cartels tells the real stories of the most wanted drug lords in history, from Pablo Escobar to El Mayo Zambada, seen through the eyes of the agents who chased them. Each episode follows one complete case from the first deal to the final fall. You will hear how a poor boy builds an empire that moves tons of cocaine across borders, how the hunters close in through wiretaps and informants, and the single mistake that finally gives each man away. Some fell on a rooftop in a hail of gunfire, others stepped off a plane in handcuffs. These are true accounts built on court records and the testimony of the people who were there. New episodes arrive every Monday and Thursday at 4 AM. Follow Narcos & Cartels now so you never miss a case.
See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener
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