For 30 years, DEA special agent
Jack Riley led the manhunt for the world’s
most wanted drug-lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. He reveals how El Chapo
cleverly wrangled the cocaine trade from the Columbian cartels, how he saw
America’s growing opiod epidemic as an opportunity to branch out into meth and
heroine, and how he managed to run a multi-billion dollar drug empire from a
Mexican prison (until he escaped). Jack discusses being on the dangerous
front-lines of the war on drugs as head of the DEA’s El Paso, TX office, how
it led to $100,000 price on his head, and what he learned about policing the
border, how drugs get into America, and where they go from there. He reveals
how Guzman escaped capture so many times, and how the Mexican government had
to postpone a raid on his compound because of actor Sean Penn. We talk about
the recent El Chapo trial, the US opiod epidemic and what needs to be done to
address it, criminal justice reform, Donald Trump’s wall, and Trump’s wild
assertion that El Chapo put out a hit on him.
Order Jack Riley’s new book
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and
the Rise of America's Opioid
Crisis
on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. Today’s podcast sponsored by
Brother Printers INKvestment printer.
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$100 Amazon gift card. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts
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For 30 years, DEA special agent
Jack Riley led the manhunt for the world’s
most wanted drug-lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. He reveals how El Chapo
cleverly wrangled the cocaine trade from the Columbian cartels, how he saw
America’s growing opiod epidemic as an opportunity to branch out into meth and
heroine, and how he managed to run a multi-billion dollar drug empire from a
Mexican prison (until he escaped). Jack discusses being on the dangerous
front-lines of the war on drugs as head of the DEA’s El Paso, TX office, how
it led to $100,000 price on his head, and what he learned about policing the
border, how drugs get into America, and where they go from there. He reveals
how Guzman escaped capture so many times, and how the Mexican government had
to postpone a raid on his compound because of actor Sean Penn. We talk about
the recent El Chapo trial, the US opiod epidemic and what needs to be done to
address it, criminal justice reform, Donald Trump’s wall, and Trump’s wild
assertion that El Chapo put out a hit on him.
Order Jack Riley’s new book
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and
the Rise of America's Opioid
Crisis
on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. Today’s podcast sponsored by
Brother Printers INKvestment printer.
Please support the show by taking our annual listener survey at
www.podsurvey.com/kick, and register to win a
$100 Amazon gift card. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts
and leave us a review, follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod, and visit our
website at
www.kickassnews.com.
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