Narco Wars explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. The series combines gripping access to cartel members and the law enforcement agencies opposing them with a deep dive documentary exploration of the geo-political, social and cultural factors that led the cartels' rise.
Showing Season 3 of 3
Chasing the Dragon
2022
Vietnam vets, mobsters, the Mujahideen, the CIA and Mexican drug lords: all play their part in this epic new season exploring the international heroin trade – and its deadly consequences in America and around the world.
01. How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
2022-08-03
In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
02. Prince of Death
2022-08-10
Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
03. The Mob and the Mujahideen
2022-08-17
The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.
04. Narco Jihad
2022-08-24
DEA agent Jeff Higgins sets out to avenge 9/11 by taking on an Afghan heroin kingpin and proving the close link between narcotics and terrorism.
05. Pain Pill Nation
2022-09-07
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
06. Opioid Apocalypse
2022-09-07
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG
