1 00:00:35,559 --> 00:00:36,393 Good evening. 2 00:00:36,685 --> 00:00:37,811 I'm Helen Mirren, 3 00:00:38,103 --> 00:00:40,523 and you're watching Documentary Now!, 4 00:00:40,814 --> 00:00:42,358 season 50. 5 00:00:42,650 --> 00:00:44,776 In order to tackle a dangerous topic, 6 00:00:45,068 --> 00:00:46,528 a documentary filmmaker 7 00:00:46,819 --> 00:00:50,406 often has to put their own life on the line, 8 00:00:50,698 --> 00:00:53,201 and no group of filmmakers risk more 9 00:00:53,493 --> 00:00:55,286 than those at Dronez, 10 00:00:55,578 --> 00:00:58,248 a consortium of participant journalists 11 00:00:58,540 --> 00:01:01,751 whose motto is, "ballz to the wallz." 12 00:01:02,043 --> 00:01:05,170 And it should be noted that both "ballz" and "wallz" 13 00:01:05,462 --> 00:01:07,798 are spelled with zeds. 14 00:01:08,090 --> 00:01:10,300 Please enjoy tonight's film, 15 00:01:10,592 --> 00:01:14,263 Dronez: The Hunt For El Chingon. 16 00:01:20,893 --> 00:01:21,269 The world is nuts. 17 00:01:22,353 --> 00:01:24,730 No one knows what's gonna happen next. 18 00:01:25,022 --> 00:01:26,607 But whatever goes down, we'll be there, 19 00:01:26,899 --> 00:01:29,527 keeping a close eye on all the madness. 20 00:01:29,819 --> 00:01:31,737 This is the world of Dronez. 21 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,913 Hi. I'm Jamison Friend. 22 00:01:42,205 --> 00:01:45,542 We're here in the Dronez offices in Brooklyn, New York, 23 00:01:45,834 --> 00:01:47,210 where our staff is working hard 24 00:01:47,502 --> 00:01:50,297 to bring you the real news of today's world. 25 00:01:50,589 --> 00:01:52,424 For this week's story, we go to Juárez, Mexico, 26 00:01:52,716 --> 00:01:53,758 where the war on drugs 27 00:01:54,050 --> 00:01:57,219 has turned this once beautiful city... 28 00:01:57,511 --> 00:01:59,638 into the deadliest place on Earth. 29 00:02:10,149 --> 00:02:12,401 Kidnappings, murder, 30 00:02:12,693 --> 00:02:14,402 a broken system, 31 00:02:14,694 --> 00:02:16,779 Mexicans... 32 00:02:17,071 --> 00:02:18,489 Ciudad Juárez, 33 00:02:18,781 --> 00:02:20,366 it's the city most closely associated 34 00:02:20,658 --> 00:02:21,993 with the Mexican drug wars. 35 00:02:22,285 --> 00:02:23,453 To have this once beautiful city 36 00:02:23,745 --> 00:02:24,954 become the drug capital of the world... 37 00:02:25,246 --> 00:02:27,290 time for a little geography lesson. 38 00:02:27,582 --> 00:02:29,834 Mexico is directly south of America, 39 00:02:30,126 --> 00:02:33,503 which means it shares a border with the United States. 40 00:02:33,795 --> 00:02:35,297 And what goes over that border? 41 00:02:35,589 --> 00:02:36,548 Drugs. 42 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:37,966 Is that sinking in yet, America? 43 00:02:38,258 --> 00:02:39,301 This is happening 44 00:02:39,593 --> 00:02:40,510 in your backyard. 45 00:02:43,805 --> 00:02:45,724 In Juarez, the drug game is headed 46 00:02:46,016 --> 00:02:47,351 by the Salvez cartel, 47 00:02:47,643 --> 00:02:49,352 which is run by this man, 48 00:02:49,644 --> 00:02:51,687 El Chingon. 49 00:02:51,979 --> 00:02:53,272 He's killed thousands 50 00:02:53,564 --> 00:02:54,565 and made millions, 51 00:02:54,857 --> 00:02:56,859 but he left a big mess in the process. 52 00:03:00,988 --> 00:03:02,031 We decided to hit the streets 53 00:03:02,323 --> 00:03:03,741 and ask the locals what they could tell us 54 00:03:04,033 --> 00:03:06,951 about this modern-day Mexican Scarf ace. 55 00:03:07,243 --> 00:03:09,329 You guys seen El Chingon? 56 00:03:09,621 --> 00:03:10,330 El Chingon? 57 00:03:13,041 --> 00:03:14,584 Oh, he's saying it's dangerous to have a camera. 58 00:03:14,876 --> 00:03:15,627 All right, thank you very much. 59 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:16,670 Yeah, whatever, bro. 60 00:03:19,673 --> 00:03:21,716 Hey. So they're saying... 61 00:03:22,008 --> 00:03:23,301 Hey, thanks, man. 62 00:03:23,593 --> 00:03:24,635 Unfortunately for us, 63 00:03:24,927 --> 00:03:27,012 most were too paralyzed by fear to speak up. 64 00:03:27,304 --> 00:03:29,306 She's clearly afraid of something, man. 65 00:03:29,598 --> 00:03:30,766 Tell us your story. 66 00:03:31,058 --> 00:03:32,309 Are you afraid? 67 00:03:34,186 --> 00:03:35,646 She might be asleep. 68 00:03:35,938 --> 00:03:37,731 El Chingon! 69 00:03:38,023 --> 00:03:39,775 Finally, through social media, 70 00:03:40,067 --> 00:03:41,068 we met someone brave enough to talk. 71 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:42,610 - Buenos tardes. - Hey, hi. 72 00:03:42,902 --> 00:03:44,779 Buenos tardes. 73 00:03:45,071 --> 00:03:47,907 Manuel Bautista has lived in Juárez his whole life. 74 00:03:48,199 --> 00:03:49,575 Last year, his son Felipe 75 00:03:49,867 --> 00:03:51,994 was kidnapped by the cartel. 76 00:03:53,287 --> 00:03:54,872 - Yeah? All right. - Okay. 77 00:03:55,164 --> 00:03:56,624 He invited us into his humble hacienda 78 00:03:56,916 --> 00:03:58,042 to tell us the tale. 79 00:03:58,334 --> 00:04:00,460 We're going into, uh, his home right now. 80 00:04:00,752 --> 00:04:01,795 Hacienda. 81 00:04:02,087 --> 00:04:03,380 And just a warning. 82 00:04:03,672 --> 00:04:04,881 The poverty you're about to see 83 00:04:05,173 --> 00:04:07,718 may be disturbing to your first world sensibilities. 84 00:04:11,096 --> 00:04:12,013 Oh, look at that. 85 00:04:12,305 --> 00:04:13,682 Whoa. 86 00:04:15,934 --> 00:04:17,561 Just to give you an idea of the size of everything, 87 00:04:17,853 --> 00:04:18,853 just so you can get the scale, 88 00:04:19,145 --> 00:04:20,479 I-I-I want to show you guys that this 89 00:04:20,771 --> 00:04:22,565 is how far my arms extend 90 00:04:22,857 --> 00:04:24,859 in a hallway in a home 91 00:04:25,151 --> 00:04:26,819 where someone is raising their family. 92 00:04:27,111 --> 00:04:28,446 So the family portrait... like, look how sad this is. 93 00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:31,991 Wow, this is how people live, you know. 94 00:04:32,283 --> 00:04:33,909 They make do with what they can. 95 00:04:34,201 --> 00:04:35,994 This kid's probably a drug dealer now. 96 00:04:36,286 --> 00:04:39,831 Look at him. You can tell. 97 00:04:40,123 --> 00:04:41,624 He was a man who had next to nothing, 98 00:04:41,916 --> 00:04:44,002 but the real tragedy was not what he owned 99 00:04:44,294 --> 00:04:47,756 but what he had lost. 100 00:05:05,230 --> 00:05:06,690 What did he say? 101 00:05:06,982 --> 00:05:08,484 I'm not really sure. 102 00:05:09,568 --> 00:05:11,069 Just look at the floor. 103 00:05:14,363 --> 00:05:16,199 No, but look back at him. 104 00:05:19,285 --> 00:05:20,453 Yeah, yeah, no, we've... 105 00:05:20,745 --> 00:05:22,079 We've lost friends too, 106 00:05:22,371 --> 00:05:25,917 you know, um, Raya and... and Rick and, um... 107 00:05:26,209 --> 00:05:27,043 Yeah. 108 00:05:27,335 --> 00:05:28,795 And, uh, Sam... a lot of people 109 00:05:29,086 --> 00:05:31,546 To, uh, the urban farming boom. 110 00:05:31,838 --> 00:05:33,715 They left Brooklyn and went to Detroit. 111 00:05:34,007 --> 00:05:35,425 We're happy to hear your story, 112 00:05:35,717 --> 00:05:36,510 and we're getting your story out there. 113 00:05:37,594 --> 00:05:39,513 And, uh, it's all drug money, 114 00:05:39,805 --> 00:05:40,931 and everything's built on drug money, 115 00:05:41,223 --> 00:05:43,016 and, you know, your clothes are drug money, 116 00:05:43,308 --> 00:05:45,101 and this house is built on drug money. 117 00:05:46,770 --> 00:05:48,437 Manuel wanted answers, 118 00:05:48,729 --> 00:05:50,898 and we wanted answers, too, about El Chingon. 119 00:05:51,190 --> 00:05:52,191 Comes in and pays for the rug. 120 00:05:55,069 --> 00:05:56,195 Who's that? What's up? 121 00:05:57,947 --> 00:05:58,989 - It's El Chingon. - Yeah, yeah. 122 00:05:59,281 --> 00:06:00,574 - All right, all right. - All right. 123 00:06:00,866 --> 00:06:01,784 Turn the light off. Turn the light off. 124 00:06:02,076 --> 00:06:02,785 Turn the light off. 125 00:06:03,077 --> 00:06:05,078 All right, so some guys, 126 00:06:05,370 --> 00:06:06,538 uh, who work for El Chingon are outside. 127 00:06:07,622 --> 00:06:09,624 We're gonna talk to them, relate, 128 00:06:09,916 --> 00:06:10,917 get 'em to relax, 129 00:06:11,209 --> 00:06:12,335 and maybe get some info out of 'em. 130 00:06:12,627 --> 00:06:13,545 Let's see how it goes. 131 00:06:17,090 --> 00:06:17,799 What's going on, fellas? 132 00:06:18,091 --> 00:06:18,800 How's it going? 133 00:06:23,846 --> 00:06:24,930 Well, that didn't work. 134 00:06:41,112 --> 00:06:42,905 So Kyle and John were dead. 135 00:06:43,197 --> 00:06:44,490 Luckily for us, 136 00:06:44,782 --> 00:06:46,492 they had already recorded their voice-overs, 137 00:06:46,784 --> 00:06:47,827 but we still wanted to get to the bottom 138 00:06:48,119 --> 00:06:49,787 of this whole El Chingon stuff, 139 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:51,497 so we brought in two more reporters 140 00:06:51,789 --> 00:06:53,040 who'd been off on other assignments... 141 00:06:53,332 --> 00:06:54,250 Trevor Kenney, 142 00:06:54,542 --> 00:06:55,918 who was in Alabama making omelettes 143 00:06:56,210 --> 00:06:56,961 with a racist sorority... 144 00:06:57,253 --> 00:06:58,004 Ow.. 145 00:06:59,296 --> 00:07:00,171 Whoa! 146 00:07:00,463 --> 00:07:02,257 That was not cool. 147 00:07:02,549 --> 00:07:03,884 And Bryce Bowen, 148 00:07:04,175 --> 00:07:05,760 who was in the middle east where he was introducing 149 00:07:06,052 --> 00:07:07,929 The Syrian rebel forces to Mario Kart. 150 00:07:08,221 --> 00:07:09,514 You're just driving. You're just driving. 151 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:13,518 What time does that end? 152 00:07:13,810 --> 00:07:15,687 We put Bryce and Trevor on the next flight to Juárez 153 00:07:15,978 --> 00:07:18,272 to pick up where their brothers in arms had left off. 154 00:07:18,564 --> 00:07:20,065 Back to the mean streets. 155 00:07:26,322 --> 00:07:28,282 Here at Dronez, we had a sneaking suspicion 156 00:07:28,574 --> 00:07:30,117 that John and Kyle were killed off 157 00:07:30,409 --> 00:07:31,660 because they were asking too many questions 158 00:07:31,952 --> 00:07:35,872 about the infamous drug lord El Chingon. 159 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:38,041 But that wasn't gonna stop us from tracking down the man 160 00:07:38,333 --> 00:07:40,043 behind the legend. 161 00:07:40,335 --> 00:07:41,961 We're gonna go meet this New York Times reporter 162 00:07:42,253 --> 00:07:44,172 and, uh, see what she knows 163 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:45,673 about El Chingon, 164 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:47,008 trade some secrets. 165 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:48,217 Dronez. 166 00:07:48,509 --> 00:07:49,677 Yeah, we've been doing 167 00:07:49,969 --> 00:07:51,220 some research on El Chingon, 168 00:07:51,511 --> 00:07:53,764 and it turns out that he's, like, 169 00:07:54,056 --> 00:07:56,058 super oppressive to the people. 170 00:07:56,350 --> 00:07:57,976 I don't know, like Skeletor or Darth Vader or something. 171 00:07:58,268 --> 00:07:59,686 Yeah, yeah, like, just an evil presence. 172 00:07:59,978 --> 00:08:00,896 Yeah, it's funny. 173 00:08:01,188 --> 00:08:02,230 You'd think that the locals 174 00:08:02,522 --> 00:08:03,941 would be, like, really against him, 175 00:08:04,232 --> 00:08:06,693 but people here, they really... they really love him. 176 00:08:06,985 --> 00:08:09,570 I mean, he's kind of a Robin Hood-type figure to them. 177 00:08:09,862 --> 00:08:11,030 He provides for them in a way 178 00:08:11,322 --> 00:08:12,323 that their own government cannot. 179 00:08:12,615 --> 00:08:13,783 But that's what you heard. 180 00:08:14,075 --> 00:08:15,076 - Right. - No, that's what I know. 181 00:08:15,368 --> 00:08:16,327 I've been doing research on it. 182 00:08:16,619 --> 00:08:19,121 The cartel has a really huge stronghold 183 00:08:19,413 --> 00:08:20,915 on this whole town. 184 00:08:21,207 --> 00:08:22,249 I mean, they fund festivals. 185 00:08:22,541 --> 00:08:23,584 They have a lot of bars. 186 00:08:23,876 --> 00:08:24,919 They have dangerous, scare... 187 00:08:25,211 --> 00:08:26,212 What is it? What's the name of the places? 188 00:08:26,504 --> 00:08:28,213 Uh, the Caballo de Oro. 189 00:08:28,505 --> 00:08:29,673 - Hacienda Corona. - Right. 190 00:08:29,965 --> 00:08:31,174 So they're like touristy kind of places? 191 00:08:31,466 --> 00:08:34,678 No, these are places you do not want to go ever. 192 00:08:34,970 --> 00:08:36,262 We should go there. 193 00:08:36,554 --> 00:08:38,098 No, no, no, you guys do not want to go to that place. 194 00:08:38,390 --> 00:08:39,683 It is one of the most dangerous places. 195 00:08:39,975 --> 00:08:40,684 The cops don't want to go there. 196 00:08:40,976 --> 00:08:41,726 - To you. - To you. 197 00:08:42,018 --> 00:08:43,269 To everybody, you guys. 198 00:08:43,561 --> 00:08:44,937 But what if we sp... well, I don't speak Spanish. 199 00:08:45,229 --> 00:08:46,021 Do you speak Spanish? 200 00:08:46,313 --> 00:08:47,356 Well, exactly. You guys... 201 00:08:47,648 --> 00:08:48,607 No, I mean, the army won't go there. 202 00:08:48,899 --> 00:08:49,900 Seriously, you guys. 203 00:08:50,192 --> 00:08:50,985 The army in every country's paid off. 204 00:08:51,276 --> 00:08:52,695 I've been everywhere. 205 00:08:52,987 --> 00:08:53,737 No, I've done stuff too, you know? 206 00:08:54,029 --> 00:08:55,239 I went to the Ukraine. 207 00:08:55,531 --> 00:08:57,074 They buried me up to my neck, and dudes took turns 208 00:08:57,366 --> 00:08:58,617 hitting me in the head with a golf club. 209 00:08:58,909 --> 00:09:00,035 And I was fine there. 210 00:09:00,327 --> 00:09:01,996 I covered fist boxing in China. 211 00:09:02,287 --> 00:09:03,287 You know, it's where those, like... 212 00:09:03,579 --> 00:09:05,873 Just like fist fighting, no boxing gloves, 213 00:09:06,165 --> 00:09:08,292 uh, just a melee, uh, of... of men, 214 00:09:08,584 --> 00:09:10,753 you know, a group just, like, throwing punches, 215 00:09:11,045 --> 00:09:12,296 and that's their sport. 216 00:09:12,588 --> 00:09:13,756 And I was there to cover it. 217 00:09:14,048 --> 00:09:14,799 I got bruised, but... 218 00:09:15,091 --> 00:09:16,217 I was embedded in Tunisia. 219 00:09:16,509 --> 00:09:17,677 They put me in a tent, and they fattened me up, 220 00:09:17,969 --> 00:09:19,220 and then they just, like, 221 00:09:19,512 --> 00:09:20,387 tried to marry me off to, like, one of the men. 222 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:21,763 Why? 223 00:09:22,055 --> 00:09:23,140 I got a kick-ass story out of it. 224 00:09:23,432 --> 00:09:24,349 - I would go to that length... - Wow, wow. 225 00:09:24,641 --> 00:09:26,101 - Okay? - Yeah. 226 00:09:26,393 --> 00:09:27,811 Because we have the balls to go in there and do it. 227 00:09:28,103 --> 00:09:28,937 Okay. 228 00:09:29,229 --> 00:09:30,105 Like, this is extreme. 229 00:09:30,397 --> 00:09:32,983 You understand you might die? 230 00:09:33,275 --> 00:09:34,484 That's what someone told the guys before us. 231 00:09:34,818 --> 00:09:36,028 Yeah. 232 00:09:36,319 --> 00:09:37,654 And they're dead, 233 00:09:37,946 --> 00:09:38,946 and that's why we're here, but... 234 00:09:39,238 --> 00:09:40,406 I don't know, guys. 235 00:09:40,698 --> 00:09:41,907 If you're gonna go, 236 00:09:42,199 --> 00:09:43,659 can I give you a name of a good fixer? 237 00:09:43,951 --> 00:09:45,161 We already got somebody, 238 00:09:45,453 --> 00:09:47,246 and he's pretty sweet. 239 00:09:47,538 --> 00:09:48,247 All right. 240 00:09:48,539 --> 00:09:49,915 Good luck to you. 241 00:09:50,207 --> 00:09:51,250 Our fixer is none other 242 00:09:51,542 --> 00:09:52,668 than our good friend, 243 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,336 streetwise rapper Ty Dolla sign. 244 00:09:54,628 --> 00:09:56,171 ♪ Yeah, I'm paranoid ♪ 245 00:09:56,463 --> 00:09:58,173 ♪ I'm trippin', I've been smokin' ♪ 246 00:09:58,465 --> 00:10:00,216 Rolling with Ty gives you immediate cred, 247 00:10:00,508 --> 00:10:03,344 and as a bonus, it was his first time in Mexico. 248 00:10:13,021 --> 00:10:15,022 Well, the music was a bit of a boner, 249 00:10:15,314 --> 00:10:16,190 so to make things interesting, 250 00:10:16,482 --> 00:10:17,858 we asked ty to get up onstage 251 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:20,778 for an all-out, no-holds-barred rap battle. 252 00:10:22,863 --> 00:10:23,864 Yeah, yeah, go up! 253 00:10:24,156 --> 00:10:25,282 I think you should go check it out. 254 00:10:34,874 --> 00:10:36,793 No! 255 00:10:37,210 --> 00:10:38,419 It was time to hit the dance floor, 256 00:10:38,711 --> 00:10:39,879 and thanks to our good buddies 257 00:10:40,171 --> 00:10:41,214 in the third world fashion scene, 258 00:10:41,506 --> 00:10:43,216 we were already rocking the freshest new styles. 259 00:10:43,508 --> 00:10:44,842 These are pointy boots. 260 00:10:45,134 --> 00:10:47,887 They're supposedly hugely popular here. 261 00:10:48,179 --> 00:10:49,930 We wore them to mix in with the locals, 262 00:10:50,222 --> 00:10:51,681 but, um, it doesn't look like anyone else 263 00:10:51,973 --> 00:10:53,850 is really, um, wearing 'em. 264 00:10:54,142 --> 00:10:57,020 We look like a couple of chooches. 265 00:10:57,312 --> 00:10:58,438 As the night went on 266 00:10:58,730 --> 00:11:00,273 and we looked around the club a little more, 267 00:11:00,565 --> 00:11:01,817 we made an incredible discovery. 268 00:11:02,901 --> 00:11:05,445 El Chingon, this is the guy we're looking for. 269 00:11:05,737 --> 00:11:08,239 There were pictures of El Chingon everywhere. 270 00:11:08,531 --> 00:11:09,782 It turns out the people of Juárez 271 00:11:10,074 --> 00:11:11,117 actually love El Chingon. 272 00:11:11,408 --> 00:11:13,035 He's kind of a Robin Hood figure to them, 273 00:11:13,327 --> 00:11:16,997 a hero who provides for them in ways their government can't. 274 00:11:17,289 --> 00:11:18,749 Even the words to the song seemed to reflect this. 275 00:11:20,126 --> 00:11:21,127 So this band, 276 00:11:21,418 --> 00:11:23,212 what they're singing about... 277 00:11:23,504 --> 00:11:25,255 they're saying that this Chingon 278 00:11:25,547 --> 00:11:26,881 is a great guy 279 00:11:27,173 --> 00:11:28,258 and he's really cool 280 00:11:28,550 --> 00:11:30,218 and he can drink six to eight beers a night 281 00:11:30,510 --> 00:11:31,761 and never get a hangover. 282 00:11:35,265 --> 00:11:36,766 Spending a night in dangerous territory 283 00:11:37,058 --> 00:11:38,810 had been risky, but by doing so, 284 00:11:39,102 --> 00:11:40,478 we had won the trust of the locals, 285 00:11:40,770 --> 00:11:43,480 and now that trust was about to pay off. 286 00:11:43,772 --> 00:11:45,107 All right, look. 287 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:47,234 We met these guys inside. They're cops. 288 00:11:47,526 --> 00:11:48,986 They have some information on El Chingon. 289 00:11:49,278 --> 00:11:50,404 They're gonna tell it to us, 290 00:11:50,696 --> 00:11:52,281 but we can't bring the camera in the car, okay? 291 00:11:52,573 --> 00:11:54,449 But we've got our microphones on, 292 00:11:54,741 --> 00:11:56,743 so listen in, okay? 293 00:11:57,035 --> 00:11:58,078 Yeah! 294 00:12:05,334 --> 00:12:06,377 Oh, sweet ride. 295 00:12:06,669 --> 00:12:08,379 So, fellas, what's up? 296 00:12:14,218 --> 00:12:15,803 Trevor and Bryce's tragic end 297 00:12:16,095 --> 00:12:18,847 was confirmed in a letter from Ty Dolla sign. 298 00:12:19,139 --> 00:12:20,140 "Dear Dronez, 299 00:12:20,432 --> 00:12:22,184 I think they melted your friends." 300 00:12:22,475 --> 00:12:25,020 And then these were delivered to the office. 301 00:12:25,312 --> 00:12:27,147 Hey, hey, hey, don't open that. 302 00:12:27,439 --> 00:12:28,982 Let's keep these, put 'em in the lounge, 303 00:12:29,274 --> 00:12:30,483 throw a couple coffee table books on 'em. 304 00:12:30,775 --> 00:12:31,484 Mm. 305 00:12:31,776 --> 00:12:32,527 Right? 306 00:12:32,819 --> 00:12:34,529 - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. 307 00:12:51,253 --> 00:12:52,922 First John and Kyle. 308 00:12:53,214 --> 00:12:55,006 Now Trevor and Bryce. 309 00:12:55,298 --> 00:12:58,051 Clearly someone in Mexico was sending us a message, 310 00:12:58,343 --> 00:13:00,470 but our work in Juárez was far from over. 311 00:13:00,762 --> 00:13:03,431 So we sent in two of our very best reporters, 312 00:13:03,723 --> 00:13:05,850 Lars Klegg, who was up in the frozen north 313 00:13:06,142 --> 00:13:07,602 Investigating Mongolian horse pimps... 314 00:13:07,894 --> 00:13:10,271 Hey, so, uh, how much is the horse? 315 00:13:13,148 --> 00:13:15,609 And Denver McIver, who was deep in the Amazon 316 00:13:15,901 --> 00:13:17,152 for a little taste of an ancient tradition 317 00:13:17,444 --> 00:13:18,946 known as the burn circle. 318 00:13:19,238 --> 00:13:20,239 Oh, really? 319 00:13:20,530 --> 00:13:21,240 Di-di-di... 320 00:13:22,866 --> 00:13:24,451 And this time, 321 00:13:24,743 --> 00:13:26,370 we weren't messing around. 322 00:13:30,456 --> 00:13:32,166 We were ready to turn Juárez upside down 323 00:13:32,458 --> 00:13:33,626 To find El Chingon. 324 00:13:33,918 --> 00:13:35,544 El Chingon! 325 00:13:35,836 --> 00:13:36,963 Chingon, where are you? 326 00:13:37,255 --> 00:13:38,297 El Chingon, where are you? 327 00:13:38,589 --> 00:13:40,049 But as it turns out, 328 00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:41,592 tracking down the most wanted man in Mexico 329 00:13:41,884 --> 00:13:43,469 wasn't as easy as you might think. 330 00:13:47,597 --> 00:13:50,183 Luckily we got hooked up with a local "profesoro" 331 00:13:50,475 --> 00:13:52,018 who had some sweet insider information, 332 00:13:52,310 --> 00:13:53,395 'cause knowledge is power. 333 00:13:53,687 --> 00:13:54,646 - Thanks for having us. - You're welcome. 334 00:13:54,938 --> 00:13:55,647 - Hi. How are you? - Thank you. 335 00:13:55,939 --> 00:13:57,107 We're Dronez. 336 00:13:57,399 --> 00:13:58,400 Hope you don't mind our camera guy. 337 00:13:58,692 --> 00:14:00,402 It's Chris. 338 00:14:00,694 --> 00:14:02,195 Everybody knows El Chingon 339 00:14:02,487 --> 00:14:04,447 lives somewhere in the foothills of Salvez. 340 00:14:04,739 --> 00:14:07,074 That is why it's called the Salvez cartel. 341 00:14:07,366 --> 00:14:09,159 Oh, Salvez cartel, okay. 342 00:14:09,451 --> 00:14:10,202 You're reporters. 343 00:14:10,494 --> 00:14:11,412 You knew that already. 344 00:14:11,704 --> 00:14:12,538 - Yeah, yeah. - Right, no, yeah. 345 00:14:12,830 --> 00:14:14,039 - The foothills. - Yeah, we... 346 00:14:14,331 --> 00:14:16,166 - Salvez. - Salvez, in the foothills. 347 00:14:16,458 --> 00:14:17,918 - Let's go. - And so if we just get... 348 00:14:18,210 --> 00:14:19,211 - So if he's in the foothills... - No, no, no, wait. 349 00:14:19,503 --> 00:14:20,421 Promise me. Do not go there. 350 00:14:20,713 --> 00:14:22,589 Even the police do not go to Salvez. 351 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,048 Because... 352 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:26,217 Because if you go there, you will die. 353 00:14:26,509 --> 00:14:28,094 These guys don't play around. 354 00:14:28,386 --> 00:14:29,220 But wait a minute. 355 00:14:29,512 --> 00:14:31,014 Especially with a camera, 356 00:14:31,306 --> 00:14:32,682 they won't even ask any questions. 357 00:14:32,974 --> 00:14:34,475 You will be killed. 358 00:14:34,767 --> 00:14:35,518 But that's the key. 359 00:14:35,810 --> 00:14:37,186 We do ask questions. 360 00:14:37,478 --> 00:14:39,022 Okay, so you shouldn't go there, then. 361 00:14:39,314 --> 00:14:41,523 Foothills in Salvez. Right. 362 00:14:41,815 --> 00:14:44,151 Promise me you will not go there. 363 00:14:44,443 --> 00:14:46,278 We promise we won't go. 364 00:14:52,284 --> 00:14:54,536 Been walking for a couple hours. 365 00:14:54,828 --> 00:14:57,080 Should be pretty close to El Chingon's house. 366 00:14:57,372 --> 00:14:58,456 There's no place to really walk. 367 00:14:58,748 --> 00:14:59,707 There's a lot of weeds. 368 00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:01,334 Weeds are a lot thicker than you think, 369 00:15:01,625 --> 00:15:02,626 a lot stronger. 370 00:15:02,918 --> 00:15:06,464 And, uh, we're the only ones out here. 371 00:15:06,756 --> 00:15:09,175 New York Times isn't doing this. 372 00:15:09,467 --> 00:15:10,718 Uh... 373 00:15:11,010 --> 00:15:12,511 I think New York Times did do a piece out here. 374 00:15:12,803 --> 00:15:15,139 - They did? - Yeah. 375 00:15:15,431 --> 00:15:17,057 Well, cut that out. 376 00:15:20,310 --> 00:15:21,728 - Whoa. - Oh, wow. 377 00:15:23,772 --> 00:15:25,357 So how do we find El Chingon? 378 00:15:25,648 --> 00:15:27,025 The same way they found Bin Laden. 379 00:15:27,317 --> 00:15:29,319 We looked for the biggest house 380 00:15:29,611 --> 00:15:30,570 and knocked on the front door. 381 00:15:32,739 --> 00:15:34,031 It's got to be the house. 382 00:15:34,323 --> 00:15:35,449 There's a dude. Hey. 383 00:15:35,741 --> 00:15:37,242 Um, hi. We're from Dronez. 384 00:15:37,534 --> 00:15:38,494 Uh, you're the... 385 00:15:38,786 --> 00:15:40,204 Oh, whoa, whoa! 386 00:15:40,496 --> 00:15:43,248 - Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Oh, god, help me, help me! 387 00:15:52,382 --> 00:15:53,299 No! 388 00:15:55,843 --> 00:15:57,345 We're okay. 389 00:15:57,637 --> 00:15:59,263 We're... we're good. We're cool. 390 00:15:59,555 --> 00:16:01,099 We're cool. We're cool. 391 00:16:01,391 --> 00:16:02,683 We're cool. We're cool. We're cool. 392 00:16:02,975 --> 00:16:04,310 - We're fine. - We're cool. We're cool. 393 00:16:07,730 --> 00:16:09,606 - Hi. - Hi. 394 00:16:11,525 --> 00:16:13,652 We're... we're, um... we're, um... 395 00:16:13,944 --> 00:16:15,362 We're from a show called Dronez, 396 00:16:15,654 --> 00:16:18,031 Um... 397 00:16:18,323 --> 00:16:19,533 With a z. 398 00:16:19,825 --> 00:16:21,410 - The camera. - Put the camera... 399 00:16:21,701 --> 00:16:22,786 Put the camera up on him. 400 00:16:23,078 --> 00:16:24,746 - Um, we... - We were just walking around. 401 00:16:25,038 --> 00:16:26,081 We saw the house. 402 00:16:26,373 --> 00:16:27,207 We wanted to find you. 403 00:16:27,498 --> 00:16:28,416 Kind of what we do is, uh, 404 00:16:28,707 --> 00:16:30,543 We kind of find the craziest people, 405 00:16:30,835 --> 00:16:32,503 and we kind of just wanted an interview with you. 406 00:16:32,795 --> 00:16:34,505 - And, um... - This is our cameraman. 407 00:16:34,797 --> 00:16:36,173 Uh, this is Chris. We're... we're unarmed. 408 00:16:36,465 --> 00:16:37,341 Yeah, we're fine. We're cool. 409 00:16:37,633 --> 00:16:38,384 And we just want to... yeah, 410 00:16:38,676 --> 00:16:40,177 We just want to get to... 411 00:16:40,469 --> 00:16:42,179 To get to ge... know the real you, 412 00:16:42,471 --> 00:16:46,224 If that's a thing that you are open 413 00:16:46,516 --> 00:16:47,725 and you and your friend... your friends could be in it. 414 00:16:48,017 --> 00:16:49,352 All you guys can be in the... 415 00:16:49,644 --> 00:16:50,812 You know, we can interview everybody. 416 00:16:51,104 --> 00:16:52,230 The... we can interview 417 00:16:52,522 --> 00:16:53,648 Each and every one of your guys. 418 00:16:53,940 --> 00:16:56,818 You guys could be on, uh, the... the internet. 419 00:17:00,321 --> 00:17:01,698 Okay. 420 00:17:01,990 --> 00:17:03,824 Wh... what's up? 421 00:17:04,116 --> 00:17:05,117 - Okay. - Okay. 422 00:17:05,409 --> 00:17:06,618 Hey, okay. 423 00:17:06,910 --> 00:17:08,328 Mic, everything's working? Camera's good? 424 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:10,247 Holy shit. 425 00:17:10,539 --> 00:17:11,415 - All right. - Thank you. 426 00:17:11,707 --> 00:17:12,624 And thank you, man. 427 00:17:12,916 --> 00:17:15,419 Thanks. That was... all right. 428 00:17:15,711 --> 00:17:17,629 We suddenly had unprecedented access 429 00:17:17,921 --> 00:17:20,382 into the life of the world's most dangerous drug trafficker. 430 00:17:20,674 --> 00:17:22,467 At first, it was invigorating. 431 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:25,219 Oh, my god, I've never done 432 00:17:25,511 --> 00:17:27,054 this much coke in my life. 433 00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:28,556 Yes, you did. What about Beth's barbecue? 434 00:17:28,848 --> 00:17:29,765 - Oh, yeah. - Right? 435 00:17:30,057 --> 00:17:31,100 Chris, you got to get on this. 436 00:17:31,392 --> 00:17:32,185 Here, I'll hold the camera. 437 00:17:32,477 --> 00:17:34,395 Hit that shit, bro! 438 00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:37,148 But as soon as we began walking in El Chingon's shoes, 439 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:38,316 a strange logic emerged. 440 00:17:38,607 --> 00:17:39,524 Whoo! 441 00:17:39,816 --> 00:17:40,692 , man, that's some 442 00:17:40,984 --> 00:17:41,860 Fast and Furious shit, man. 443 00:17:42,152 --> 00:17:43,612 - Dude! 444 00:17:43,904 --> 00:17:45,363 And as we unraveled the enigma, 445 00:17:45,655 --> 00:17:47,741 we learned so much about the real El Chingon, 446 00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:49,951 like his middle name, which is Ignacio, 447 00:17:50,285 --> 00:17:52,537 which shortens to Nacho. 448 00:17:52,829 --> 00:17:53,580 Pretty rad. 449 00:17:53,872 --> 00:17:55,874 Oh! 450 00:17:56,166 --> 00:17:58,542 Most importantly, we discovered that deep down, 451 00:17:58,834 --> 00:18:00,669 this powerful kingpin is really just a fun dude 452 00:18:00,961 --> 00:18:02,171 who's into cool stuff, 453 00:18:02,463 --> 00:18:03,297 like smoothies... 454 00:18:03,589 --> 00:18:04,882 Oh-ho-ho-ho. 455 00:18:05,174 --> 00:18:06,800 A total partier with suave taste 456 00:18:07,092 --> 00:18:08,302 and a generous heart. 457 00:18:12,890 --> 00:18:14,682 We danced with his daughters, 458 00:18:14,974 --> 00:18:16,226 hung with his compadres, 459 00:18:16,518 --> 00:18:17,977 and fiesta'd Mexican gangster style. 460 00:18:21,814 --> 00:18:22,649 Oh! Oh, my god. 461 00:18:22,941 --> 00:18:23,775 Oh, my god. 462 00:18:24,067 --> 00:18:25,568 Oh, my god. Dude, are you okay? 463 00:18:25,860 --> 00:18:27,612 You okay? 464 00:18:27,904 --> 00:18:29,364 , Americano. 465 00:18:29,656 --> 00:18:30,573 You okay? 466 00:18:35,202 --> 00:18:36,828 Yeah. 467 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,580 Yeah, you, dude. 468 00:18:44,545 --> 00:18:46,296 Things are going pretty good. 469 00:18:46,588 --> 00:18:48,340 Uh, we still haven't gotten that interview yet. 470 00:18:48,632 --> 00:18:50,466 I think El Chingon is gonna sit down with us pretty soon, 471 00:18:50,758 --> 00:18:51,842 and it's gonna be pretty great, 472 00:18:52,134 --> 00:18:54,303 but, I mean, Juárez isn't that bad. 473 00:18:54,595 --> 00:18:56,389 You have to speak up for the mic. 474 00:18:56,681 --> 00:18:58,224 I learned that from Chris. 475 00:18:58,516 --> 00:19:00,726 Chris, you're a asshole, man. 476 00:19:01,018 --> 00:19:02,728 You're an animal, Chris! 477 00:19:04,105 --> 00:19:05,064 Dronez. 478 00:19:05,356 --> 00:19:06,691 - Dronez. - Dronez, Dronez! 479 00:19:06,983 --> 00:19:08,358 We finally built up enough trust 480 00:19:08,650 --> 00:19:09,693 to sit down for our long-awaited interview 481 00:19:09,985 --> 00:19:12,737 with the man himself, El Chingon. 482 00:19:13,029 --> 00:19:15,490 Thank you so much for making us feel so welcome. 483 00:19:15,782 --> 00:19:18,451 Uh, it's been an unbelievable experience. 484 00:19:18,743 --> 00:19:20,036 So, um, I guess, uh, 485 00:19:20,370 --> 00:19:21,621 we could start doing this interview. 486 00:19:21,913 --> 00:19:24,749 So how do you decide who, uh, is gonna be, 487 00:19:25,041 --> 00:19:26,333 like, a guard for you? 488 00:19:27,626 --> 00:19:28,544 Shit! Oh, oh, oh! 489 00:19:28,836 --> 00:19:29,545 Oh, no. Oh, no! 490 00:19:31,213 --> 00:19:32,172 I'm. 491 00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:36,719 It all happened so fast. 492 00:19:38,679 --> 00:19:39,805 One of the deadliest raids 493 00:19:40,097 --> 00:19:41,974 in the history of the war on drugs. 494 00:19:48,771 --> 00:19:51,524 Afterwards, the cops searched the property, 495 00:19:51,816 --> 00:19:53,735 Smoked out the survivors, 496 00:19:54,027 --> 00:19:57,697 but El Chingon was nowhere to be found. 497 00:19:57,989 --> 00:19:58,948 He was the stuff of legend, 498 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,408 like an epic verse 499 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,244 from one of their shitty polka songs. 500 00:20:04,536 --> 00:20:05,245 Wh-what do I say? 501 00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:06,580 I mean, I have been embedded 502 00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:08,749 with the federal police for an entire year, 503 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:11,001 and this is the biggest operation 504 00:20:11,293 --> 00:20:12,711 they've ever conducted. 505 00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:15,422 And apparently, you guys are right in the middle of it, 506 00:20:15,714 --> 00:20:16,965 so that is ju... that is... 507 00:20:17,257 --> 00:20:18,425 Wow. 508 00:20:19,925 --> 00:20:21,552 The cocaine's still in... 509 00:20:21,844 --> 00:20:23,304 - What are you talking about? - The cocaine's still in there. 510 00:20:23,596 --> 00:20:24,513 - Who cares? - You can't just leave it there. 511 00:20:24,805 --> 00:20:25,514 Come on. 512 00:20:25,806 --> 00:20:26,932 We're lucky. 513 00:20:27,224 --> 00:20:28,434 What do you mean we're lucky? 514 00:20:28,726 --> 00:20:29,518 Where we gonna go? Got to walk back. 515 00:20:29,810 --> 00:20:30,811 Could've got arrested. 516 00:20:31,103 --> 00:20:32,396 We'll die. That's nuts. 517 00:20:32,688 --> 00:20:33,731 Dronez. 518 00:20:41,112 --> 00:20:42,864 Nice work, boys. 519 00:20:43,156 --> 00:20:45,492 We're all really stoked about your next piece 520 00:20:45,784 --> 00:20:47,243 on vodka dicking. 521 00:20:47,535 --> 00:20:48,536 You put your dick in some vodka 522 00:20:48,828 --> 00:20:49,871 and get super wasted 523 00:20:50,163 --> 00:20:52,499 on another can't-miss episode 524 00:20:52,791 --> 00:20:55,000 of Dronez. 525 00:20:57,753 --> 00:20:59,380 Oh, yeah. 526 00:20:59,672 --> 00:21:00,881 That's good beef. 527 00:21:01,173 --> 00:21:03,133 Kobe beef, straight from Tokyo. 528 00:21:12,141 --> 00:21:13,518 But let's... let's take a look at these bananas. 529 00:21:13,810 --> 00:21:14,602 These are just natural, 530 00:21:14,894 --> 00:21:16,813 not yellow, you know, chemicals, 531 00:21:17,105 --> 00:21:18,981 not brought to you by Tide. 532 00:21:19,273 --> 00:21:21,025 It's just like a regular banana, 533 00:21:21,317 --> 00:21:22,443 And that's the simple life 534 00:21:22,735 --> 00:21:24,320 that we kind of forget about, you know? 535 00:21:24,612 --> 00:21:25,905 Like, you can actually eat a banana off a tree 536 00:21:26,197 --> 00:21:26,989 as opposed to... 537 00:21:27,281 --> 00:21:28,032 Huh. 538 00:21:28,324 --> 00:21:29,325 Why do you guys own two copies 539 00:21:29,617 --> 00:21:30,826 of Anger Management?