Inside Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent

Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top. Produced in collaboration with Ben Zand and Vice TV. In Mexico’s Sinaloa state, violence has become a way of life. Home to the country’s most powerful drug syndicate, the Sinaloa cartel, murders and disappearances are rife. The police, meant to protect the population, are often the targets of violence. Over 500 officers were killed in Mexico last year.
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