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Borderland: Narcosis with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas — 127 episodes

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3 Russians, 12 Miles Inside California: Inside the San Diego Pipeline Still Wide Open

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The Hunt for Iván Guzmán Intensifies: Ex-DEA Boss Who Hunted El Chapo on What Comes Next

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Hector Berrellez: The CIA, the Cartels, and the Murder of Kiki Camarena

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Sinaloa’s New Structure: Inside a Fragmented Cartel Network

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National Security Concerns at the Southern Border: Jorge Ventura Reports from Tijuana

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Silent Takeover: How China’s Infiltration of Canada Threatens U.S. Security

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The Cartel Drone Crisis: CJNG Operators Training Abroad and Targeting U.S. Vulnerabilities

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CJNG Getting Stronger? The Brutal Reality Inside Mexico’s Worsening Security Crisis

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Mexico’s Cartels After El Mencho: Full-Scale Insurgency Ahead (Ed Calderon Returns)

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Canada’s Great Lakes: CJNG Builds Massive Narcotics Corridor (Sam Cooper Returns)

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El Mencho Dead: What’s Next for CJNG and Mexico’s Cartel War?

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The CJNG in Riverside, California: The Highway That Fuels Cartel Expansion into the U.S.

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The Strategy to Target Mexico’s Most Powerful Cartel Leaders (Pierre Rausini Returns)

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Mexican Military or CJNG? Armed Men Cross the San Diego Border

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How a Cartel Gold Mine Was Taken Back — What It Reveals About Mexico’s Drug War

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Kentucky’s CJNG Money Laundering Network - The Money Trail Gets Deeper (Jon Griggs Returns)

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Venezuelan Dissident Speaks Out: The Fragile Regime, Foreign Influence, & What Maduro’s Capture Means

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Maduro Captured: Inside the U.S. Direct Action Mission That Shook Venezuela (Ed Calderon Returns)

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After Venezuela Is Mexico Next? China’s Alliance with Cartels Could Spark Strikes (Jorge Ventura)
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A Whistleblower Details Extortion Inside Mexico’s Cattle Economy

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Inside the Hidden Arizona Operation of a Former MLB Player Linked to the Sinaloa Cartel

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How Disinformation, Smuggling, and International Networks Are Quietly Shaping Threats to the U.S.

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Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela: The New Frontline Near the U.S. Border

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BONUS: Former Kingpin Breaks Down the ONE Move That Could Cripple the Sinaloa and CJNG Cartels | Pierre Rausini

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INSIDE the Ultra-Violent Secret World of Female Cartel Operatives: Deborah Bonello
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The Kratom-to-7-OH Pipeline: Inside the CCP-Linked Network Fueling a Dangerous New Drug Market

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CJNG Strikes: Mayor Murdered as Violence and Extortion Escalate in Mexico (Ioan Grillo Returns)

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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Silent Invasion of Montana: A Hidden War on American Soil

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Drone War on the Border: Ed Calderon Explains Cartels, Venezuela, and Colombia

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Inside the Cartel: FBI Agent Martin Suarez’s 24 Years Undercover Smuggling Billions for the Colombian Drug Empire

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Bounties on Agents, PsyOps, and CIA Allegations | Q&A with Katarina Szulc

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Mexico’s Drug War Turns a Corner: Homicides Drop as South American Cartels Surge (Jaeson Jones Returns)

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Venezuela Black Ops Collapse: U.S. Operative Who Tried to Topple Maduro Now Fighting for His Life

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How Cartels Actually Operate in Venezuela: America’s War, Government-Collapse & Synthetic Drug War (Pierre Rausini Returns)

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El Mayo’s Deal Ignites Cartel Collapse—Venezuelan Strikes & Sheinbaum Cartel Ties
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THE CONNECT: Ex-Trafficker Johnny Mitchell — Inside the Cartel Shift: Why They No Longer Fear U.S. Power

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Inside Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles and How It Threatens the U.S

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Mayo Zambada’s Plea Deal, Sinaloa Cartel Fragmentation, and Cartels Using AI & Drones

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America's Deadliest Chinese Mafia Drug Network Operating in Maine

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Are We Witnessing the End of the Sinaloa Cartel?

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When Supply Chains Meet Cartels: How U.S. Companies Are Affected by Mexico’s Truck Hijackings

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Canada's Most Violent Cartels: Sinaloa & CJNG's Massive Vancouver Operations (with Sam Cooper)

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The Dark Connection Between Hezbollah, Drug Cartels & Terrorism

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America’s Open Threat: Inside the Cartel’s Coordinated Terror Smuggling Operation

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Massive Texas Church-Linked Smuggling Ring Caught at Eagle Pass Checkpoint— Federal Seizure

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“I Resigned Over the Corruption” — Ex-CDCR Lieutenant on California Prison Gangs, Cartels & the Crisis

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How a CIA Operative Got Inside Cartel Money Laundering Rings

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CJNG: The Next ISIS? Ex-Special Forces, China Threat & More | Q&A with Vince and Katarina

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BONUS - The LA Protests: What's Really Happening (with Jorge Ventura)

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The Global Drug Web: Sinaloa Submarines, Triads, and the Expanding Fentanyl Crisis from New Zealand to the Pacific

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Jason Owens on Serving as Border Patrol Chief Under Biden and Today’s Security Threats

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How U.S. Bank Policy, A.I., and Canada’s Emerging Role Are Fueling the Cartel Economy (Steven Dudley Returns)

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Mexico Rejects U.S. Help and Cartels Exploit Canada’s Weakness (Katarina Szulc returns)

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America’s Blindspots? Are Tariffs Fueling Organized Crime and What Did We Miss About Tren de Aragua?

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Project Thor: It Was Working Against Cartels—So the Government Shut It Down (Pete Forcelli Returns)

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Kentucky's MASSIVE CJNG Money Laundering Operation? Did a Cattle Farm Help Launder Cartel Billions?

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How Chinese Organized Crime is Shaping America's Black Markets (Ray Donovan Returns)

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Delta Force Veteran Breaks Down What It Means to Fight Cartels as Terrorists (with Brent Tucker)

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CIA Whistleblower Exposes the Agency’s Role in the Drug Trade (with John Kiriakou)

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Vanished by Cartels – The Extermination Camps and Collectives Fighting for Justice (with Ceci Flores and Adriana Jones)

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Jay Flores Returns: Setting the Record Straight on Cartels and Their Operations

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CIA's Controversial Relationships with Cartels

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The Cartel-American Military Connection and Trump’s Strategy with Mexico" (Pierre Rausini Returns)

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BONUS: How Big Pharma Fueled the Fentanyl Crisis and Empowered the Cartels

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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel's American Operation: The Flores Twins- Part 1 (with Margarito "Jay" Flores)

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Wisconsin's Cartel Gun Operation: How CJNG Got Their Hands on America's Most Lethal Weapons

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How Cartels Actually Operate in America: Drug Trafficking, Sicario's, and High-Ranking Members

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BONUS: Cartel De Noreste’s PR Stunt, Trump’s Pressure on Sheinbaum, and and Cartels on the Northern Border (Katarina Szulc Returns)

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New Era of Cartel War: 10,000 Troops Deployed, Drone Attacks & Sinaloa Cartel Collapse (Ed Calderon Returns)

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The Cartel War Just Changed: What the FTO Label Means for Mexico and America

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Borderland: Narcosis Trailer
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Former Drug Trafficker Details Life Working for the Cartels (with Luis "El Senador" Navia and Jesse Fink)

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Q&A: What’s Next in the Drug War in Light of the New Administration

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NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura: What’s Next for the Border, Cartels, and Mass Deportations

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"No One’s Coming To Save Us" - Brutal Cartel Attack Turned a Woman's Life Into War

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Miami's Cocaine Empire, and Its Affects on the Drug Trade

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The Tren de Aragua Problem in the U.S. Is Growing—and It Isn’t Going Away

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How Militarized Borders Fuel Violence Against Women in Mexico

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The Secret Deals Between Governments and Cartels: Kingpins, Migrants and Cocaine

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America’s Cannabis Crisis: Cartels, Chinese Chemicals, and Corruption (John Nores Returns)

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How American Dollars Fuel Mexican Corruption

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Is China Using Fentanyl as a Weapon of Asymmetrical Warfare Against America?

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Trump, Obama, & Clinton: Border Wall and Immigration Policy Similarities and Differences (with Chief Rodney Scott)

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A Perfect Storm of Border Threats: Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa, and Hamas (Jaeson Jones Returns)

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Unpacking the Border Crisis: Vince Vargas Tackles Your Questions and Comments

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National Security Challenges: Ukraine, Israel, and America's Open Border (with Mike Baker)

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Peter Zeihan: Mexico’s President, Cartel Power Shifts, & the US Border Crisis

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The Media's Role in Shaping the Border Crisis (with PSYOP Specialist Keith Newton)

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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel Civil War: Mayos vs. Chapitos (with Ioan Grillo)

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The Ultra-Violent Rise and Dramatic Fall of Ms-13 - Reasonable Fear Ep. 4
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The Cartel that Infiltrated Americans' Living Rooms - Reasonable Fear Ep. 3
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Narco Cult? Inside the Real Santa Muerte Religious Movement - Reasonable Fear Ep. 2
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The Ritual Killings: Mass Graves, Cartel Secrets & Cover-ups: The True Story of the Juarez Murders - Reasonable Fear Ep. 1
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A Special Message from Vince

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How Chinese Organized Crime Fuels Cartel Profits and Threatens U.S. Security (with Former DEA Chief of Operations, Ray Donovan)

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The Rise of the Venezuelan "Tren de Aragua" Gang in the U.S.

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How Foreign Spies Are Exploiting U.S. Vulnerabilities (with EverydaySpy's Andrew Bustamante)

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The Violent Aftermath of the Arrest of Sinaloa Cartel Leader 'El Mayo' (with Ed Calderon)

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Human Trafficking and the Mexican Underworld
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A Retired Border Patrol Chief's Take on Immigration Policy, Patrol Misconceptions, and the Sinaloa Arrests
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The Smuggling Hot Zone of Tombstone, Arizona
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How the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) Uses Extreme Violence and Disinformation to Gain Power

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High Tech Human Smuggling Ops: The CCP, Sinaloa Cartel, & Counterfeit Passports

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Fact-Checking Biden and Trump’s Immigration Debate
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Millions Made: Exposing Non-Profits In Border Crisis Scandal

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How the Los Zetas Cartel Changed Organized Crime in Mexico
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Border Patrol Overload: A National Security Crisis (with Former ICE Director Thomas Homan)

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Inside Cartel Operations at the US/Mexico Border (with Border Journalist Luis Chaparro)

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The Rising Terrorist Threat at the Southern Border (with CIA Targeter Sarah Adams)

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Exiled Patriots: The Untold Stories of Deported U.S. Veterans

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Why Is America Deporting Combat Veterans?

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The Fentanyl Pipeline into America (with Derek Maltz)

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How Cartels Operate in America's Forests (with John Nores)
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How Traffickers and Cartels Take Advantage of 'Open Borders' with Sheriff Mark Lamb
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Guns & Narcos: The Shocking Truth About the Fast & Furious Scandal

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Cartels Infiltrating Reservations and Operating as Organized Crime Institutions (with Matthew Thomas)

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The Horrors of the Journey Across the Darien Gap
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Two Bordertown Sheriffs Weigh In On What's Going on at the Southern Border

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So, What Country Has Better Immigration Policies Than the U.S. Then?

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Undercover Cartel Stories from DEA Legend Mike Vigil
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Why the World Needs to Pay Attention to Venezuela
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The Rise of MS13 and Militarized Mexican Drug Cartels
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Mega Prisons, Violence & MS13: The Truth About El Salvador’s Controversial Gang Crackdown

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Cartels, Fentanyl, and Smuggling: An Emergency at the Border (with Jaeson Jones)

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An Immigration Attorney & Border Patrol Vet. Sound Off on the Border Crisis (with J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda)

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Barbed Wire, Buoys, and the Truth About Operation Lone Star

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Trailer: Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas