Narcos & Cartels

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The radio goes quiet. A strike team waits in the dark outside a door, and behind it sleeps a man two governments have hunted for years. Narcos & Cartels tells the real stories of the most wanted drug lords in history, from Pablo Escobar to El Mayo Zambada, seen through the eyes of the agents who chased them. Each episode follows one complete case from the first deal to the final fall. You will hear how a poor boy builds an empire that moves tons of cocaine across borders, how the hunters close in through wiretaps and informants, and the single mistake that finally gives each man away. Some fell on a rooftop in a hail of gunfire, others stepped off a plane in handcuffs. These are true accounts built on court records and the testimony of the people who were there. New episodes arrive every Monday and Thursday at 4 AM. Follow Narcos & Cartels now so you never miss a case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 1d ago

    Nazario Moreno: Was He Ever Really Dead?

    In the years after two thousand three, Michoacan becomes ground zero for a new kind of criminal organization, one that moves methamphetamine by the ton while distributing bibles and groceries in the same communities it controls. At the center of it is Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known as El Mas Loco, the Craziest One, a man who builds not just a cartel but a written theology to hold it together. La Familia generates hundreds of millions of dollars annually before federal authorities have a single confirmed photograph of its founder. Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Mexico's federal organized crime unit pursue a man whose own government declares him dead in two thousand ten, yet whose doctrine keeps circulating in the years that follow. The question the hunters carry into the field is whether a dead man can still be running an organization.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 4d ago

    Big Meech: Empire on the Record

    In the late nineteen eighties and through the two thousands, Detroit and Atlanta become the twin poles of the most visible cocaine wholesale network in American history. Demetrius Flenory, known everywhere as Big Meech, builds the Black Mafia Family into an organization moving roughly two hundred fifty kilograms of cocaine monthly across more than a dozen states. He runs it in public, with matching jackets, rented Lamborghinis and a record label, treating notoriety as armor. The DEA's Atlanta field division opens Operation Motor City and begins following the money and the calls. The question hanging over the whole pursuit is whether a man who has made himself famous can be caught by anything other than his own voice.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. Oct 31

    Rodriguez Gacha: The Fall of El Mexicano

    In the late nineteen eighties Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade generating an estimated four billion dollars a year in export revenue, with armed men holding territory the state cannot enter. Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, known as El Mexicano for the Mexican gunmen he pays from his own accounts, controls several tonnes of cocaine a year and a ranch empire stretching across four departments. His personal fortune reaches several billion dollars while local officials, police commanders and military officers stay on his payroll. Colonel Waldemar Franklin Quintero of the Colombian National Police leads the unit hunting him, working without reliable intelligence, with compromised contacts and without a confirmed location. When the assassination of a presidential candidate forces the full weight of the government onto one man, the hunt becomes something the cartel has never faced.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Oct 30

    Freeway Rick Ross: Caught by His Own Connection

    In the nineteen eighties, South Central Los Angeles becomes the wholesale center of the crack cocaine epidemic, its streets moving weight faster than federal agents can map the supply. Ricky Donnell Ross, known publicly as Freeway Rick, builds the largest crack distribution network the city has ever seen, moving an estimated three tons of cocaine through routes that stretch from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest. A DEA agent named John Oakley tracks the network for years without a path inside the operation. The question the hunt opens is whether anyone close enough to Ross can be turned before the network outgrows every tool the agency holds. One man with a briefcase and a shared history may be the only door the government can open.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Oct 30

    Beltran Leyva: The Fall of El Barbas

    In the first decade of the two thousands, central Mexico becomes the contested ground of a criminal network that stretches from the Pacific sierra to the capital's southern edge. Arturo Beltran Leyva, known publicly by his nickname El Barbas, meaning The Bearded One, builds a command structure that rivals the cartel he once served. His organization moves cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin across nine Mexican states, protected by corrupted officials at federal, state and municipal level. A federal police deputy commissioner leads the institutional hunt with a growing case file, while a navy intelligence unit builds a parallel record in a separate corridor. Whether either track can reach a man who moves between safe houses without a pattern is the question neither office can answer from its own files alone.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Oct 30

    Rayful Edmond: Washington's Most Wanted

    In the mid nineteen eighties, Washington DC becomes the deadliest crack cocaine market in the country, its corners running day and night and its homicide count climbing toward a number the city has never seen. Rayful Edmond III, known to the street simply as Ray, builds the organization behind it, a network stretching from the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington all the way to suppliers in Colombia. At its height his operation moves an estimated one metric ton of cocaine into the district every month. A DEA special agent leading the Washington Field Division opens an investigation with no photograph, no confirmed address and no source inside the network. The wire goes up, and the question becomes whether it will hold long enough to reach the top.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Oct 30

    Benjamin Arellano Felix: The Fall of El Min

    In the nineteen nineties, the Tijuana corridor becomes the most lucrative drug crossing on earth, controlled by a single family whose reach extends from Colombian suppliers to corrupted officials on both sides of the border. Benjamin Arellano Felix, known as El Min, serves as the organization's financial architect, moving hundreds of millions of dollars a year while his brother Ramon commands the gunmen in the field. The Arellano Felix brothers recruit an American street gang as their enforcement arm and place informants inside the investigations mounted against them. A DEA special agent in charge of the San Diego field division builds a binational task force but lacks a clean informant, a completed extradition treaty and a confirmed address. The hunt turns on a question neither side can answer: where does the last strategist go when the gunman is gone?Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Oct 30

    Dudus Coke: President for Life

    In the nineteen eighties and nineties, West Kingston becomes a city within a city, its poorest ward sealed from the outside world by concrete, zinc and armed men. Christopher Coke, known everywhere as Dudus, runs Tivoli Gardens as a parallel government, distributing food and school fees where no ministry reaches while moving cocaine and weapons across a network the Drug Enforcement Administration calls one of the most durable in the Caribbean. His operation stretches across more than a decade, protected by a political relationship between his garrison and a ruling party that neither side ever publicly denies. Jamaica's Police Commissioner leads the security response with detailed intelligence but without the one thing he needs, a government willing to sign the extradition warrant Washington has been waiting on for months. The question that drives the hunt is not whether Coke is guilty but whether any institution in Jamaica has the will to say so on paper.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae3ce7ad925811fc2eca400© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The radio goes quiet. A strike team waits in the dark outside a door, and behind it sleeps a man two governments have hunted for years. Narcos & Cartels tells the real stories of the most wanted drug lords in history, from Pablo Escobar to El Mayo Zambada, seen through the eyes of the agents who chased them. Each episode follows one complete case from the first deal to the final fall. You will hear how a poor boy builds an empire that moves tons of cocaine across borders, how the hunters close in through wiretaps and informants, and the single mistake that finally gives each man away. Some fell on a rooftop in a hail of gunfire, others stepped off a plane in handcuffs. These are true accounts built on court records and the testimony of the people who were there. New episodes arrive every Monday and Thursday at 4 AM. Follow Narcos & Cartels now so you never miss a case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    2026
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