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ABC News
29-07-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Mexico's Cartel Crackdown: Has pressure from Trump forced Mexico to clean up fentanyl?
In a town on the Mexico border, a display of military might is on show. Ten thousand Mexican troops have been deployed to stop the production and export of the deadly drug fentanyl. On the US side, state of the art American armoured vehicles and drones patrol the border wall as part of President Trump's promised crackdown on drug and people smuggling. Tensions are high in an area controlled by the notorious Sinaloa cartel which is under attack from both sides. On Foreign Correspondent, reporter Natashya Gutierrez goes on patrol to see if the crackdown is working. With inside access to the Mexican police, Natashya sees first-hand the methods being used to hunt down the criminals, including a rare look at the maze of tunnels used to smuggle drugs across the border. Under the threat of crippling US tariffs Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is acting forcefully but she's also under attack for failing to combat the growing fentanyl crisis in her own country.
ABC News
29-04-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
VIDEO: The Body Hunters: Colombia's real-life CSI squad
After more than half a century of armed conflict in Colombia, over a hundred thousand people are still missing, presumed dead. Decades of violence between leftist guerillas and right-wing paramilitary groups left large parts of the country lawless. The brutality of the notorious drug cartels only made the violence worse. Now the Colombian government has made it its mission to find the bodies of the missing. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Natashya Gutierrez embeds with the CSI squad determined to find closure for the loved ones left behind. She visits the dig sites where searches are underway and meets the criminal forensic team using new technology to build replica images from skeletal remains. Natashya also talks to a former paramilitary soldier, forcibly recruited as a teenager, who admits his involvement in assassinations and murders.
