Cocaine Royalty
Barry Seal flew tons of cocaine into the United States with Washington's knowledge and protection, while his return flights armed the killers hunting Latin America's poor. His story is not about one pilot. It is about an empire that runs the planes and jails the victims.
Cocaine Royalty
The Cali cartel rose from quiet business to global power. They controlled cocaine flows, laundered cash through banks and ran murder and surveillance squads that made them feel like a private state.
Cocaine Royalty
Pablo Escobar built cocaine trafficking into an industrial operation, mixing brutal violence and public largesse. His 1993 death ended a man but not the market he created.
Cocaine Royalty
The legend of Griselda Blanco lets Americans off the hook. But the Cocaine Godmother was built by a market up north that devoured Latin America's poor and never paid the bill for the graves it dug.
Cocaine Royalty
The world knows El Chapo as the ultimate villain, but he is a symptom of a disease manufactured in Washington. A century of coups, trade deals, and gunrunning built the cartel machine that feeds on Latin America's poor.