Drug Lords: The Takedown

2023
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Season 1 episodes (9)

1 The Animal
4/26/23
Colombia's notorious cocaine kingpin Otoniel is the drug lord who scares all other drug lords. He's an uneducated peasant, who rules the isolated jungles of north-eastern Colombia using money, witchcraft, and savage violence. When the authorities come after him, Otoniel doesn't flee, he retreats into the dark heart of his empire, setting off the biggest military manhunt in Colombian history.
2 Titan
5/3/23
DEA undercover agent "Frank" infiltrates La Oficina de Envigado, a notorious Colombian drug cartel, and follows the money all the way to Jordan, where he discovers the cartel is in bed with Hezbollah. Operation Titan takes out La Oficina, and is the opening shot in a ten year campaign against Hezbollah cocaine trafficking.
3 Target One
5/10/23
Liverpool's Curtis Warren was a drug trafficking prodigy, whose cunning and flair made him a uniquely challenging opponent for UK law enforcement. With his own intelligence operation and network of contacts, among them Latin American diplomats and senior British police officers, Curtis Warren evaded capture for years, until one mistake brought him and his international drugs empire to an end.
4 The Invisible Cartel
5/17/23
The Narco kings are dead. Escobar is gone. His arch-rivals in the powerful Cali cartel are now history. It's a free-for-all. Thousands of wannabe drug bosses are fighting each other for the spoils of the narco empire. This is the gripping story of the hunt for an invisible enemy, that begins with a street level money fraud investigation, and ends with the takedown of Colombia's biggest cartel.
5 Made in America
5/31/23
Brought up in Laredo on the Texas-Mexican border, American-born Edgar Valdez-Villareal, aka La Barbie, shows early promise as a high school football player. But the lure of easy money leads him south across the border – deep into the violence of the cocaine trade. The murderous La Barbie eventually becomes the only American ever to rise to the top of his own Mexican drug cartel.
6 Cocaine CEO
6/7/23
Drug kingpin 'Chupeta' runs a billion dollar cocaine empire like a Fortune 500 company. Rising up to eventually lead the infamous North Valley Cartel, Chupeta stashes nearly one hundred million dollars in cash and gold in the floors and walls of houses across Colombia. On the run and desperate, can plastic surgery and an ever-changing face, keep him one step ahead of international law enforcement?
7 Cocaine Guerillas
6/15/23
A maverick group of DEA agents uncovers the huge scale of guerrilla group, the FARC's involvement in narcotics, then teams up with crusading attorneys from New York's Southern District, to pull off the single biggest indictment in US History. In a thrilling finale, they snare the FARC leader to free American and Colombian hostages incarcerated for 5 long years.
8 Hell's Cartel
6/21/23
The incredible story of how one Hells Angels leader took over the cocaine trade in Montreal and declared war on the state. Maurice "Mom" Boucher rose to the top of organised crime in Canada and seemed untouchable until he was finally taken down by informants from within his own organisation working alongside special police taskforce, 'The Wolverines'.
9 The Madman
6/28/23
No name, no photo, no fingerprints, all law enforcement knew was his alias, "El Loco", or "The Crazy One". He earned his moniker after single handedly wiping out the gang that killed his brother. Protected by police, living on the run, he was one of Colombia's greatest cocaine kingpins, shifting vast loads around the world. It took investigators from several countries six years to take him down.

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Dramatic accounts of how the world's biggest and deadliest drug lords were hunted down and taken out, all told by special agents and cartel insiders.

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