Today we peek inside Mexico’s deadly drug cartels with Ioan Grillo. Ioan has been a journalist in Mexico for 20 years covering every aspect of the drug trade. He knows all the stories and all the players! How the Zeta Cartel started out as elite special forces, how El Chapo wasn’t the most powerful cartel leader, how cartels have PR, messaging strategies, and watch themselves on Netflix! Check out part 1 of 3! Q has spent decades mastering the ins and outs of CA politics but politics isn’t his sole focus, and he knows it’s not yours either. Political-ish looks outside the realm of politics for insightful and entertaining conversations about history, social justice, pop culture, business, music, and sports, with a dash of politics from time to time. So political...ish. Listen and subscribe! Books by Ioan Grillo: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (2011). Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America (2016) Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels (2021),
Today we peek inside Mexico’s deadly drug cartels with Ioan Grillo. Ioan has been a journalist in Mexico for 20 years covering every aspect of the drug trade. He knows all the stories and all the players! How the Zeta Cartel started out as elite special forces, how El Chapo wasn’t the most powerful cartel leader, how cartels have PR, messaging strategies, and watch themselves on Netflix! Check out part 1 of 3!
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has spent decades mastering the ins and outs of CA politics but politics isn’t his sole focus, and he knows it’s not yours either. Political-ish looks outside the realm of politics for insightful and entertaining conversations about history, social justice,
pop culture, business, music, and sports, with a dash of politics from time to time. So political...ish.
Listen and subscribe!
Books by Ioan Grillo:
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (2011).
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America (2016)
Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels (2021),