Join investigative journalist Alexandra Reeves as she ventures beyond headlines into Mexico's hidden cartel geography. Criminal organizations govern entire territories, collect taxes, and wage sophisticated wars over invisible corridors. Drawing on decades of frontline reporting, Reeves exposes brutal realities of territorial conflict and the devastating human toll of cartels wielding military-grade firepower.

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Alexandra Reeves examines how Mexican cartels have transformed into paramilitary forces using drones, IEDs, and armored vehicles to control a third of Mexico's territory. The episode covers the Gulf Cartel-Los Zetas split, CJNG's military operations, foreign mercenary recruitment, and the human cost of territorial warfare claiming thousands of lives annually.

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Alexandra Reeves examines how Mexican cartels evolved from drug traffickers into shadow governments controlling roughly one-third of Mexico's territory, taxing everything from avocados to construction through extortion and fear, exploring autodefensas uprisings and the institutional failures that allowed criminal organizations to replace the state.

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Alexandra Reeves explains the "plaza" system—the trafficking corridors that turn Mexican border crossings into billion-dollar battlegrounds. From four stable cartels in the 1980s to today's fragmented chaos, she unpacks how geography, economics, and violence intersect to produce over 30,000 annual murders across territories where controlling the route means controlling everything.

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