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Borderlands | 1. A Wild Place

The Binge Crimes: Fatal Fantasy

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The Rise and Fall of Cocaine in the US

In the early 1980s, a few cartels consolidated power in Mexico. The drugs entered the US through key border towns known as plazas. Journalist Melissa Del Bosque knows that history well. "You see a lot of these cartels based around singular figures and families basically"

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