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Becoming a Hitman for the Cartel (Sicarios) | Rites of Passage
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40:51Now PlayingWinner for Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish in the 44th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards.
In this episode of Rites of Passage, VICE travels down to Sinaloa, Mexico - El Chapo's home turf & the heartland of arguably one of the most powerful cartels in the country, if not the world. There, we follow a pair of local, low-ranking members eager to prove themselves as soldiers and sicarios (hit men) for the Sinaloa cartel. Though they're currently stuck making drug runs, tailing military trucks, & overseeing other petty assignments throughout the city of Culiacán, they'll soon be headed to the mountains of Badiraguato to attend the cartel's underground training camp, where veterans turn hungry young men into willing & able killers.
With never-before-seen, exclusive access to the intricate inner workings of the cartel's recruitment and training systems, we'll get a sense of how Mexico's most powerful organized crime operations prepare their soldiers to wage war & enforce their dominion over their territory. We'll also get inside the heads of the civilians willing to permanently give up everything for a shot at rising through the ranks - ultimately learning both how & why so many young men are sucked into a life of crime & bloodshed.
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