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22:05Now PlayingCartel Black Sites are being discovered from Mexico to the United States. Special Forces are exposing a sprawling network of sites used for recruitment, imprisonment, forced labor, and worse.
Similar stash houses and hostage sites have been uncovered inside the United States, revealing how deeply these criminal networks have expanded. In this episode, we examine the evidence behind Izaguirre Ranch, the volunteer search groups that uncovered what authorities missed, the federal investigations that followed, and the disturbing question of what happened to Mexico's more than 130,000 missing people.
We'll also explore how these black sites function, why cartels rely on them, and what they reveal about the evolution of organized crime into something that increasingly resembles an insurgency with its own infrastructure, recruitment system, and shadow prison network.
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