The Fragile Empires Of The Worlds Most Infamous Drug Lords | Our History

Pablo Escobar was a small-time thug who became the most feared cocaine trafficker in the world. Backed up by an army of killers and informers he dominated the infamous Medellin cocaine cartel and turned the South American nation of Colombia into a living hell. Anyone who stood against him was bought off or killed. But one DEA agent was determined to bring Escobar's reign of terror to an end. Working with an elite force of Colombian police he smashed the drug king's empire and rid Colombia of his evil influence once and for all.
More powerful than Pablo Escobar and more ruthless than Al Capone, Joaquín Guzmán Loera AKA El Chapo is America's number one illegal drug supplier. For over a decade, several US law enforcement agencies have been chasing the elusive drug kingpin across Mexico. Now, the DEA, Homeland Security and the US marshals combine forces with the Mexican Marines to take him down.
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This series tells the true stories of America's most thrilling and spectacular manhunts. Each one is a race to catch vicious gangsters on the run, drug barons so rich they seem beyond justice and arms dealers who are willing to sell to America's worst enemies Pablo Escobar the King of Cocaine, El Chapo recently escaped from prison, Griselda Blanco the Black Widow, and Viktor Bout the Merchant of Death. The heroes are dedicated, patriotic special agents and fearless, incorruptible cops. Each episode will have all the drive and immersion of a Hollywood thriller but these are real stories with real people. That authenticity will be brought home vividly by the maximum use of first person testimony from the people directly involved - the agents, the policemen, the intelligence analysts and the eyewitnesses. These are people who have crept in undercover, faced down murderers and chased their quarry over hostile terrain for weeks on end.

This film was first broadcast: 2015

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