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For 20 years now, Mexico has been an uninterrupted source of bloody news stories. Just in 2011 there were 17 thousand murders, that is 47 murders a day, or one every 30 minutes. This situation is connected, of course, with the local drug cartels. The drug dealers here have long outlasted the famous Pablo Escobar. Their fighters are probably as numerous as the Mexican Army, and their earnings certainly exceed the country's GDP.

And today I invite you to hear how Mexico got to this point. We will trace the whole evolution of local vendors from smalltime smugglers in the late 19th century to the final formation of cartels into international criminal organizations that supply drugs to a good half of the globe. We will explain how the United States, which suffers from this the most, actually influenced the process. We will also show how drugs and politics are inextricably linked.

So if you're interested in hearing about how Mexico became a country of drug traffickers, then meet the rise of the Mexican drug cartels on the other side of the law.