Cocaine and Crude: Mexican Drug Cartels Discover Oil

Summary Mexico's notoriously violent drug cartels are diversifying. Besides trafficking narcotics, extorting businesses, and brutally murdering their rivals, cartels are now at work exploiting their country's precious number one export: oil. Every day as many as 10,000 barrels of crude oil are stolen from Mexico's state-run oil company, Pemex, through precarious illegal taps, which are prone to deadly accidents. Pemex estimates that it loses $5 billion annually in stolen oil, some of which ends up being sold over the border in US gas stations. As police fight the thieves, and the cartels fight each other, the number of victims caught in the battle for the pipelines continues to climb. VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Mexico to see the effects of cartel oil theft firsthand.

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Stars : Kaj Larsen Tim Pool Danny Gold Ty Demura

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 1, 2014

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Site

Language : English

Filming locations : Navajo Generating Station, Page, Arizona, USA

Production companies : Vice Media

Summary Mexico's notoriously violent drug cartels are diversifying. Besides trafficking narcotics, extorting businesses, and brutally murdering their rivals, cartels are now at work exploiting their country's precious number one export: oil. Every day as many as 10,000 barrels of crude oil are stolen from Mexico's state-run oil company, Pemex, through precarious illegal taps, which are prone to deadly accidents. Pemex estimates that it loses $5 billion annually in stolen oil, some of which ends up being sold over the border in US gas stations. As police fight the thieves, and the cartels fight each other, the number of victims caught in the battle for the pipelines continues to climb. VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Mexico to see the effects of cartel oil theft firsthand.

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 1, 2014

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Site

Language : English

Filming locations : Navajo Generating Station, Page, Arizona, USA

Production companies : Vice Media

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