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Narco Wars

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About Narco Wars

Narco Wars is a documentary TV series that premiered on National Geographic on December 9, 2020. It has 3 seasons and 22 episodes so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 3 Episode 6 "Opioid Apocalypse", aired on September 7, 2022.

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.

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Episodes

22 episodes · 3 seasons

Season 1

2020 · 10 episodes · Last episode: 5 years ago

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    10. The Last Don

    Finale

    In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking

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    9. Chapo Public Enemy No. 1

    The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's narcotics and the key DEA agents who finally brought him to justice.

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    8. Narco Cult

    Meth kingpin Nazario Moreno turns a drug cartel into Mexico’s first narco cult: the gruesome Knights Templars.

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    7. After Pablo

    Upon Escobar’s death, the Rodriguez brothers take over as the new cocaine kings, specializing in corruption and buying Colombia’s presidents.

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    6. Rise of the Narco Army

    One drug lord uses millions of drug dollars to bribe soldiers to desert the army to form The Zetas, the most feared cartel in Mexico’s history.

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    5. Escobar Goes to War

    Pablo Escobar goes to war against both authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel, as his terror sees airliners blown up and politicians assassinated.

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    4. Escobar's Empire

    Pablo Escobar goes from cocaine tycoon in the late ‘70s to full-blown narcoterrorism by 1985, waging war against the Colombian state.

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    3. The Battle for the Border

    El Chapo Guzman’s rise to cartel leader through his ingenious cocaine-smuggling tunnels and a war with the Tijuana cartel unleashes narco terror.

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    2. Mexicos First Cartel

    How a group of marijuana traffickers created Mexico’s first-ever drug Cartel and committed murder to protect their billion-dollar operations.

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    1. How Cocaine Came to America

    Despite $1 trillion spent on enforcement and 2.5 million death toll, more illegal drugs are being produced, trafficked, and consumed than ever before. Featuring interviews and action filmed with key players on both sides of the law, this 10 part series will examine the drug wars - both past and present - to explain why.

Season 2

2021 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 5 years ago

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    6. The Mob: The Cocaine Godfather

    Finale

    The Rizzutos were one of the longest ruling dynasties in Mafia history. They built a multibillion dollar cocaine empire that spanned two continents.

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    5. The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia

    Henry Hill was just a low-level Mob associate. But his 1980 arrest for drug dealing brings about the downfall of the Mafia’s wealthiest crew…

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    4. The Mob: How E Busted the Bull

    Sammy The Bull attempts to go straight in Arizona, but gets sucked into a major ecstasy-dealing ring after his kids get a taste for raving.

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    3. The Mob: Drugs, Bugs and the Dapper Don

    In 1980s New York, John Gotti kills the boss of the Gambino Crime Family to protect his drugs empire, breaking the Mafia’s most sacred rules and becoming the infamous ‘Teflon Don'.

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    2. The Mob: The Mafia Meth King

    The rise and fall of Philadelphia mobster Long John Martorano, who built a meth empire worth $500 million; told for the first time by those closest to him.

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    1. The Mob: The Heroin Don

    Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the United States. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way…

Chasing the Dragon

2022 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 4 years ago

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.

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    6. Opioid Apocalypse

    Finale

    How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG

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    5. Pain Pill Nation

    Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.

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    4. Narco Jihad

    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.

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    3. The Mob and the Mujahideen

    The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.

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    2. Prince of Death

    Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.

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    1. How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem

    In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.

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The most recent episode of Narco Wars, Season 3 Episode 6 "Opioid Apocalypse", aired on September 7, 2022.

How many seasons of Narco Wars are there?

Narco Wars has 3 seasons with 22 episodes in total.

When did Narco Wars first air?

Narco Wars first aired on National Geographic on December 9, 2020.

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