Narco Wars

This episode reveals how a handful of criminals formed the infamous Medellin Cartel and pioneered the cocaine smuggling business in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

How one drug lord persuaded soldiers to desert the army, supercharging Mexico’s narco war by creating the country’s most feared cartel: The Zetas.

Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption, including buying Colombia’s presidents.

Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

The search for the world’s most-wanted drug trafficker – El Chapo – as told by two women from Chicago whose husbands turned against him.

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking.