How a Cartel takes over US - Mexico Border / How People live

i'm almost at the border between mexico and the usa now within a stone's throw of the u.s the man walking in front of me belongs to the so-called coyotes you pay them to smuggle you across the border even across this crazy wall it's doubly dangerous because the territory is under the control of the cartels at the same time and smugglers have to pay off each cartel i really hope we don't bump into any of them now dear people in this episode we will visit the most guarded border in the world which is nevertheless under the on rush of illegal immigrants in order to get to the usa they scale rusty poles crawl under fire there are also really desperate guys who hide under the seat covers in buses to travel unnoticed others build actual catapults believe it or not to shoot cocaine bundles over the neutral zone to the us territory here the night vision camera caught the moment of the shot some numbskulls even try to drive over the wall here's a jeep stuck at the top of the steel supports the guy had to simply drop it and haul ass how much does it cost depends on the place where you want to come across the border 7 500 8 000 for a mexican i'll show you how people stuck at the border for years live look here are the so-called floodgates that let rainwater accumulated on the other side get into this river these guys have set homes right under these floodgates we will also go to the really remote areas of mexico where people live like in prehistoric times there's no tv no cellular connection no internet except in the mayor's house but most importantly there's no police in the guerrero state mountains people grow heroin and the towns are ruled by those who drive very expensive cars we're now riding in the car of a local you can say mayer at the same time look he still goes around with a convoy of two cars today i'm at one of the most dangerous and interesting borders in the world the u.s mexico border still despite this huge crazy wall people manage to leak through the fence 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known under the nickname el raton or the mouse is the kingpin of the sinaloa cartel so what do you think happens when heavily armed national guard forces enter the city armored trucks with automated riflemen appear out of nowhere gunmen block roads with cars and set up roadblocks meanwhile the mexican security forces managed to arrive to the drug lord's house here he is the one in the cap in a garage full of g-wagons he gives his cell and gun to a fellow and surrenders nobody's hitting him the guardsmen briefly search him so that he even manages to shoot a message and call to someone someone's peacefully patting him on the shoulder this time around 700 armed men from the cartel have already taken position all around the city there are dozens of roadblocks the moment police tried to take elerathon out of the town a real massacre begins cartel gunman threatened to drown the city in blood to attack the buildings where guard families reside after several hours el rathan is set free he's not simply released the president of mexico records a special address where he fully justifies the national guard's actions i support this decision because the situation became very difficult and many people many people were put in danger so once again the security forces tried to capture the kingpin of the drug cartel but the president says no don't do that there will be fewer victims and surprisingly he's actually right mexico is among the top economies in latin america yet despite that the number of people who have to flee their homes because the cartel wars is growing the majority of cases happen in guerrero the hot spot of today's drug wars since the police can't cope with their duties there are people who've declared themselves mayors governors they basically seized power over huge territory leaders or mayors of such town are basically in charge of self-reclaimed armed groups so everything runs the way they want we're now going to meet exactly one of such leaders if all goes fine he'll bring us inside [Music] these people always appoint a meeting in the same place in the town where taxi drivers spend the nights in their own cars behind the curtains made of t-shirts or plastic covers there is only one really decent restaurant the man greets us with a smile there are many communities in guerrero that are managed in the same manner as this one they have their own police they don't let the army interfere these are mainly farmers they don't earn anything they only serve the community it's quite efficient it's about nine hours by car from the country's capital mexico city the coastline is actually where the territories of such communities with their own police start because that's exactly where poppy fields are once you get there you're basically in the hands of the local gang leaders members of the community will meet us and decide on you it's the first thing that's going to happen there will be a public meeting where they explain how the community is organized during the whole time of our meeting the restaurant is guarded by a group of armed and fully equipped military men two cars are parked outside by the entrance as i'd learn later these are the troops officially registered as police but de facto working for the man sitting with us at the table he has bodyguards he's doing social work his life is threatened the man's name is bruno placido valerio before riding through the heroin fields with him i decided to google his name i quickly realized that it was a bad idea articles in the papers linked him with the local cartel de la sierra which grows poppy in the fields we were going to visit bruno was also named among those who attacked the rival group that they shot with machine guns and shotguns bruno himself denied all that in the interview and called it fake news he claimed to have no connection with or even mention of the cartel the sole aim of his community as he said is to establish peace and order in town you know when i realized i'd spend the next two days by the side of this man i suddenly thought that damn of course it's fake news deep inside uh this guy sure has a heart of gold we have about five 000 armed men in the service who protect people in our communities and this weapon does it come from the government no the community provides money to buy weapons today we have 20 municipalities and around 200 people in each community what's their occupation are they workers or farmers they are fishermen teachers farmers mainly farmers i decided to refrain from asking what these farmers grow to afford to arm five 000 people or more we were only leaving the town when you can easily tell someone status just by observing the following bruno leaves the restaurant and gets in the car meanwhile a police pickup truck blocks the car traffic from behind one policeman keeps an eye on the oncoming traffic another policeman accompanies bruno who peacefully walks sipping his coffee the convoy follows us all around town moreover the convoy cars change in each following town we pass [Music] this highway is among the most important ones in the south of mexico most of the cartels fight over this road for you to understand there were times when lives of whole villages and other settlements along the highway were halted children didn't go to school and so on i'm talking about life totally blocked why let me explain the one who controls the highway is the one who brings heroin and other drugs to the mexican capital thing is the road goes to the port city of acapulco and also connects acapulco with mexico city so basically the one who controls the highway is in charge of all drug traffic of southern mexico at least 50 percent of all heroin in the country is believed to travel exactly here the highway connects the mountainous poppy fields with the biggest cities and allows access to the ports in the pacific ocean which in turn opens the routes to colombia's neighbor panama and to north america which includes san francisco state of california according to the inside crime investigation one of the organization that fights for highway 95 is the union of peoples and organizations of the state of guerrero headed by guess who the man sitting in the back of our car it's 7 a.m in mexico now we are now a step away from the u.s mexico border i'm now walking to a mind-blowing place because i've never seen people live like that in my whole life there is some sort of canal here like a huge gutter for the river in the rainy season the water reaches the top when there are no rains the canal is dry so the migrants live here they adjust literally any spot to settle it can be under a random pole or a piece of concrete sticking out of the wall they just throw some rugs on the ground or at times nothing at all and live here looks absolutely crazy [Music] listen up some dudes snoring these guys use curb stones as pillows and cardboard pieces as bedside tables where some put water for the night please note the shoes are off then we can see not just dwellings but real engineering wonders that's something literally over the top look they install these structures in the upper part of the tunnel using wheels car elements bags a piece of mattress as supports look there is a man sleeping there honestly you've got to be kind of careful walking around here even though it's dry there's oil dripping from the highway above so you slowly slip down here one guy assembled some sort of cupboard that hangs a bag with bread also a blanket of course there are easier ways to create shelter you can put up a couple of sticks to the wall and simply load whatever you find on top yet some guys are really handy look how thoughtfully this man has organized everything here he has the main room or a bedroom with some palm leaves on top and blankets serving as walls there as i figured he has a lounge zone or a living room look there are mops standing there so he's actually cleaning after himself see how tidy it looks he's dug a hole in the ground to make some sort of pit house there are even stairs look he's got some things here drying on top here he has one more zone for bbq so he's collected some sticks around and makes himself a barbecue here this is mind blowing what an intelligent man i should say here lives sergio who is also very polite first of all he offers us to have breakfast with him do you want a burrito it's with beans he didn't simply pile up wooden boards he dug a hole with a shovel to make something like a pit house moreover note his engineering approach he also included a special storage niche into the construction plan now he has a jerry cam with water there it's not hard to live here but it's rather tough when it's raining water rises so we come out of here and take cover under the bridge so water can ruin your house right no it reaches the level then it's soaked and slowly goes down i've got to be honest with you my university dorm room wasn't even that well equipped he has dish sets a strainer a goddamn strainer i don't even have one in my flat there is also a pack of eggs i spent mustard couple of months under the bridge but it was very uncomfortable so i came here and built a small house here i live more comfortably he lives here since the deportation from the us all the locals are either those who tried to cross the borders to the usa but were caught or those who had managed to get there but were later stopped by police officers and had no documents to show i was deported in 2019 so i've been living here in tijuana for almost a year but i don't pay rent you know what i mean i was caught in phoenix drinking beer you mean while driving no no no no i was just drinking the street they caught me and found out that i didn't have the papers problem is the migration services dropped people at the border so many simply don't have cash to pay for a return ticket to get home people adapt in the best way that they can well i'm looking for a job but they demand id in order to get an id i need a birth certificate which i don't have money to pay for i'd like to get it to work to earn money and to return to my hometown sergio has been living in this house for seven months his neighbor miguel for a year as for the guy who plays with coins since the morning i didn't even believe it at first i've been living in tijuana for 19 years and here for 10 years 10 years he lives here for 10 years really wow what's it like to live here easy time flies these guys have set homes right inside their floodgates look they stole some trolley from the supermarkets here they have firewood to cook here they have so-called kitchen where they can cook there they have some sort of shelves it's either a plate standing there some boxes salt they sleep under this thing so you climb under it and there they have beds when the water rises we just grab everything we have sometimes water washes away all our things mattresses everything we don't manage to grab how fast does the water rise maybe for an hour but it can be faster same 15 minutes there are around 20 floodgates here collecting water and people live under each of them each gate has an owner if you live there others can't enter it's prohibited we have to talk to the stranger first see if we can allow him to enter does he need to bring something for you no he just has to behave normally not steal from us how do you get your money we wash cars windows and so on the line the line means the borderline [Music] [Music] in reality it's quite dangerous here there's no way police reach here and there is nobody who somehow watches over everything so it's literally their location well when it's not raining when you come they feel that you've entered their territory and get mad taking the condition of some people here it's kind of scary what's the problem i tell okay no problem i'm not [ __ ] i want to show how people live i was kicked out with a camera during the day and that's what happened when too many migrants gathered it tear gas smoke grenades pushing crowds in 2008 there were thousands of migrants from here all over the continent at some point they simply bum-rushed the border people's rage was only growing as the measures to protect the border toughened during the election campaign donald trump was repeatedly saying that he'd build a wall between the countries and would make mexico pay for it fun fact several decades ago the situation was exactly the opposite the usa asked the mexicans to come and work there during world war ii when the us labor force was at war the two countries started a joint operation called braceros more than 5 million mexicans were relocated to 24 american states but mainly to texas and california they were paid salary not less than 30 cents per hour and not more than three dollars per day they had the right to have a house food to attend places for the whites yet as soon as the second world war was over and the american men started to come back home the mexicans were slowly pushed out the u.s government adopted a law imposing penal sanctions for hiding illegal immigrants in 1954 the [ __ ] operation began hundreds of jeeps buses seven planes were daily transporting immigrants to deep mexico so that they couldn't easily come back some even had their head shaved to make it easier to spot repeated offenders soon enough the usa started to strictly control the border which was back in the day simply a line with occasional rock piles turned into a line with a countryside fence first in 1930 the fence was equipped with barbed wire in 1947 defense was already all made of barbed wire eventually the line became the most guarded border in the world [Music] basically the border between mexico and the usa this is the place of mass migration since the 70s i mean handfuls flocks piles masses of thousands of people were moving from mexico to the us and this is how it looks today the mexicans still live right at the border look there are local favelas or barrios that basically lean on the border wall as for americans it's the opposite approach they build nothing here this is the so-called safety zone it is marked by these rusty yet stiff poles of course the wall is not exactly a fully closed wall first of all it would be extremely expensive to build it secondly i think the air currents have to go here to enable lasting stability so the wall consists of the poles with narrow spaces in between you can't squeeze there there's no space even for an arm apart from the poles occasionally blown down by wind there are also invisible obstacles aerostats with cameras powerful enough to see the number of bags someone is carrying watchtowers with cameras including night vision cameras moreover the seismic sensor that can not only detect movements of the trespassers but even calculate their route there are also motion detectors the wall itself stretches even into the ocean i'd say it looks like rails the gaps between them are wider so no one can theoretically hold stomach in and squeeze through but no way see there is wire mesh here so good luck when i came to the beach the police immediately started to shoo me away i couldn't argue with them i guess eventually parts of tijuana by the border turned into small islands of immigrants who have nowhere else to go [Music] thank god not everyone here lives like that handy dude with a barbecue area paolo vanessa from honduras another country for my future trips with a criminal rate like afghanistan 20 people are shot there daily my husband and i decided to immigrate when i was two months pregnant i was very worried about the whole situation because we also had a two-year-old daughter and no money to feed her then we decided to leave the little baby peacefully sucking her thumb was still in paulo's belly with umbilical cord around its neck when she left honduras doctors said she'd need a cesarean section or there'd be problems the water broke at 2 30 a.m and there was no taxi i suffered from the pain till 5 am when the taxi finally arrived but we had to stop because the baby started to come out right in front of my husband and two daughters i had to take care of the baby myself i started to bear down and the baby came out i took immediately started to cry the taxi driver didn't know what to do to go further or not i said it was okay and asked him to cut the umbilical cord they took care of me my two daughters said mommy look at the baby it's a boy i arrived at the hospital but when we left i had nowhere to go and nowhere to live we didn't know what to do we couldn't get a place here in the shelter anymore the girl there said it was prohibited but it's my baby my beautiful baby i'm proud of how i delivered him it was very difficult to register to him here because i'm from honduras they told me i don't need to register the baby they'll take him away from me the lawyer came here to the shelter and helped me they've been living in this tent for six months already bags are used as pillows kitchen is here too they were lucky this shelter usually accommodates people for a couple of weeks only this family was allowed to stay longer because of the pandemic it's basically a huge hangar see there is barbed wire here now look what it is from the inside you can enter a rather big area here with lots of kids running around tents are placed one after another around 40 people live exactly in this area they're around 20 tenths here standing at a maximum proximity please note that some tents are standing even on top of that structure this is the so-called bathroom these two doors are male and female toilets the male one is a bit busted apparently someone kicked it open also note that the shower can only be used in given hours so men have to shower from 8 am to 11 30 a.m it smells good it's not befouled only problem is the curtain here but here they make some sort of door from plywood then there is a shower also fairly clean water runs here only there is not shower head only a hole in the wall where the water comes from but the most important thing here according to people is security they live away from the mad house behind the wall what's happening in the streets is a real nightmare [Music] here is a woman she dumped all of her contents in her bag it's right here on the road here is another dude putting trousers up to take them off it's a real heroin ghetto to juana here's a lady with many suitcases and in a good mood you know why because she stole them kicked out of the house by a scandalous wife old man is walking here it's difficult for him to walk he's uh leaning on a mop and a crutch he's walking and holding this jacket i didn't really understand at first that he was selling it his daughter or someone just came over and asked like if you sell it what are you gonna wear check out this old guy's fashion he's wearing a cap and a bandana under it how much do you want for your ticket 100 pesos it's yours why why why do you want to sell it why because i don't really have to actually with missing people is a normal thing here this is edwardo he lives in another district of tijuana and his story clearly illustrates the situation here he has a picture of his son lalo on the chest he passed two years ago was shot by a silly mistake we were together that day he said can you lend me some money i did he lived together with his girlfriend i fell asleep in 30 40 minutes i woke up to gunshots he was shot four times here here and here he was 21. when i reached the place i saw also my nephew lying there holding him in his arms at first i thought it wasn't my son i said leave him alone it's not lalo the answered uncle is lalo i saw that he was wounded his jaw was broken i checked his chin and saw a tear on his face paramedics came and took me out of her my son squeezed my hand that's how he spent the night i don't wish this on anyone my boy was very good and those bullets were not meant for him though for his cousin his cousin was a criminal but you shouldn't think that everyone here is a criminal or inadequate while i was strolling around this mess i suddenly saw a dude fixing a book with the tape who gave it to you the library the library you took it from library but sometimes you know the library give it to us uh donations you go to to library to read books yeah what is your favorite ones like like history history history uh besides history uh animals like you know like nature this is john he's 48 he says he's lived in california since he was eight until police checked his papers several years ago and deported him from the u.s yes what's your plan my mom my plan is just to stay stay free i would stay up you know stay out of trouble and just you know try to keep my uh my my partner right now you know so i'm trying to you know like in the future try to you know keep ahead and do do my best and try to get a decent job and and take care of each other i get money but you know like working sometimes i get work you know like uh asking for jobs or you know like you know like not permanent but because i don't have a credit card right now our id card so what i do is go and ask people you know uh like you know some businesses stores or or just you know houses many migrants work at the line they sell hats and it is the biggest and the busiest entry port in the world here between more than 70 000 cars crossed the border daily all in all more than a hundred thousand people it's basically a full-scale town crossing the border to and fro people working here you know washing car windows offering guns chips and all this [ __ ] have created a whole industry some people specifically come here to live in the bushes and work at this border american border officers check cars extremely attentively here they open the doors check if the doors bend if they are opened and shut the way they should from the technological point of view right now an american officer is examining this truck with a flashlight this jeep is opening all the doors knocking the ceiling to see if there is anything hidden there now he's standing like why doesn't the back door open come on open it now now the third person came here the one on the right is also checking like what the hell do we have here there are three of them now examining a single car look he's going under check under the wheels he scrutinizes all of the bottom with a mirror on a pole what if the driver is hiding something in the discs look and he's not lazy to kneel to go almost underneath the car apparently they come across a very suspicious dude and he's not just examining it with a mirror now he's scrubbing something there with a knife like what if something is taped there holy moly no way you can jip this guy now we're in the middle of this autonomous zone in the state of guerrero as you can see there are armed people not only at the entry post but even at the gas stations there are two people there they have sawn off shotguns ordinary shotguns it's pretty obvious that it's a kind of trophy weapon or something like that [Music] the man with the shotgun sees the camera and approaches to ask why the hell we're filming there then he sees who's driving with and walks away silently on our way to the autonomous zone where our friend bruno is the local king and god we pass many security checkpoints usually it's such guys with guns or rifles collecting coins in the jar and maintaining order at the same time sometimes there are guys with police cars but once they see our companion they also wave and are friendly to invite us to drive without stopping we insist that we can take care of ourselves the deeper into the mountains we go the more people ride donkeys instead of cars we pass by some strange markets where people sell rocks some sort of construction market apparently many carry building materials on the head check out this chick she has a special pad together with a hair button creates a very stable structure many locals here don't know how to write and read in spanish there are generally many traders here salt is sold on an industrial scale taco bread is fried everywhere right on the fire traders sell a lot of trifle look some beauty with a red bow is waving something bushy to invite a passerby local taxi routes look very funny back of the car is open like the trailers used to carry horses or donkeys there are also kids who pretend to be clearing the road from landslides and ask money for it when entering bruno's town it's called buena vista there is yet another trading spot right on the car hood local residents literally run away from the cameras [Music] i don't know where we came in it's an unfinished house but this is something like an administrative building here as soon as we arrived they switched on announcements all over the town the settlement now people are gathering to meet us and decide if they accept us or not [Music] [Music] so [Music] while we were waiting for the gathering we're invited to have lunch while we're waiting for lunch we will serve this wonderful thing called chicatana these are ants running all around with fat asses it's a local delicacy they're a bit fried it's sort of a snack here like our crackers well i can't miss a chance to try this beauty [Music] i don't know it's actually not bad dry texture but it's kind of smoky yeah not bad at all i'll go after another one they also have this sort of shell a bit moist when you eat it you feel that it's a bit baked i think if you bake a ladybug its wings would be similar kind of wrapped around your teeth pretty cool if you didn't know that it was ants it would be great with a beer instead of pretzels plus it's healthier high in protein no dough involved so you won't gain weight highly recommend [Music] some even eat chikitana as a side dish workers go to town gathering wearing or carrying whatever here is an old man with a trolley full of wood and pineapple another one wears flip-flops and a hat hats here are kind of ties like you can simply put one on and be official women in back is breastfeeding you can't expect her to miss daily feeding because some bloke in the back with a camera another kid was playing by mum's side during all the gatherings by the look of the toys one can guess the decade this town lives in a stack of cds serving as rattle toy a toy car or better the bottom of a car within two wheels the kids build garages from some wooden sticks he found nearby meanwhile bruno and his fellows are presenting their settlement buena vista slides are projected to the wall this projector is probably the only one for 100 kilometers we have 2 200 inhabitants here 21 of the population don't know how to read nine percent of the houses have toilets 22 refrigerators 0.2 of the population are connected to the internet not because people want it that way there simply is almost no connection here in order to understand how people live it's enough to simply visit someone's house naked brick walls with clay used instead of solution floor is basically absent kids are walking barefoot together with huge chikatana ants and other life forms one room is everything a kitchen a bedroom look what a neat touch for cups it's also a storage place baby stool is hanging on the ceiling speakers from the 90s are standing on one shelf tb is on top of the garbage bin for some reason some sort of housework area is behind the house look there is a bucket where people wash clothes there is no canalization here only a barrel with water there is also a shower here let's put it this way there are also no pipes here just a hose again no floor just trampled down earth mixed with stones and pieces of bricks that were lying here years ago i'm almost whispering because this evening there was a funeral in the house a 20 year old guy passed away you know why diabetes not a mortal disease one could say but not in bueno easter he refused to go to us he said he prefers to die home than here people here listen to their relatives families phonies are a big problem here before they go to the actual doctor they go to around 10 other people they know which is magicians people who have no education and only after that they go to the hospital that's why when they arrive they're already in a bad condition the doctor himself is not local he was sent to work here together with a colleague at the beginning they were shocked as i was one of the laws what shocked me was this this attitude to childbirth things they do have nothing in common with what we've studied at university everyone knows that a woman has to deliver a child in a calm mood lying in bed with relaxed legs and so on but here they deliver babies standing so a husband is sitting in a chair and his wife is standing above looking at them they also don't use any drugs this region in san luis has the highest maternal death rate if you force them as a doctor they feel interference and resist husbands say if something happens to my wife i'll kill you yesterday i went to see a patient she had very high blood pressure she said no worries i'll drink water in a little stop they don't like to come to the medical center they also use frankincense it's like oil or ointment so they rub it to one side or another they also massage the belly with a ball or take a towel and slowly stroke the belly from top to bottom they say it helps the baby move down this is what they're doing they also drink hot brew or hot chocolate for the baby to go down but sometimes when patients have high blood pressure chocolate only makes it worse so they start twitching what if twitching leads to complications what do they do then a stethoscope here what if people need the real ambulance what happens if it happens we order a local taxi to get to the hospital here a pregnant woman takes herbs to deliver the baby fast the blue herb rosemary or they gather leaves and the birth attendant bathes her in hot water with them then they hang her on something like a pull-up bar and tie her hands to it the birth attendant puts arms around her belly and pushes down to make the baby come out the best way to get rid of disease is to climb that mountain there is a special place there mayor bruno takes us there accompanied by local security [Music] security in this autonomous zone what's curious is that the state police don't interfere into the business of this community these guys all have weapons some look like muslim nagants some are average hunting shotguns scatter guns i haven't seen any machine guns are they are they in good condition see yes have you shot from it already yep how many times four or five times for example there was a murder a man was killed but we caught the murderer and circled him he had no choice of domestic visa safety of all towns or settlements fully depends on these local security guys they have a two-way radio even uniform so when people see them they immediately know that it's the police the guardsmen fun fact none of the fighters here are actually paid they're all volunteers the community chose me and ordered me to serve so i simply have to it happens the following way they place their name on the board and decide whether this man has to serve or not each one of us gets uh to go through that is it true that neither you or anyone else in the police uh or security get paid yeah no money it's basically social service how do you earn your living i have pineapple trees fields i also grow coffee beans and so on i mainly do it on the weekends because all the other days i'm on duty after we reach the top bruno shows the rain altar this is the place the mixed texts ask for healing mid text to people who lived here hundreds of years ago all those habits like drinking chocolate or hanging on a pull-up bar are left after their ancient dwelling the most interesting guys were aztecs predecessors to the mexicans aztecs were the wildest guys on the whole continent like the dothraki in the game of thrones during the first century of their history they fought so much that they were basically like a living mercenary army they were paid with food jewelry and yes feathers feathers were cool back then aztecs built their empire similarly to the tartar mongolians but they not only gathered money they also forced the conquered cities to build roads to each other it was important because there were neither horses nor transport on wheels and people moved around by walking the aztec empire came to an end when the spanish moored on the local shores by the way mexico is the biggest spanish-speaking country in the world to this day so the spanish came to mexico with a bold dude called hernan cortes bold because he had no idea about the size of the aztec empire and about thousands of warriors in its army cortes himself had around 600 warriors and 16 nights on horses plus some of them had to share one horse cortez didn't ask his government for permission to attack the aztecs he simply went for it eventually after three years of fighting and delicate diplomacy a new country was born the kingdom of new spain it stretched from the south of america to modern day canada los angeles california texas all of that belonged to mexico such a thing as the united states didn't even exist yet in 300 years mexico became independent and the already formed usa conquered half of its territory establishing the famous border guarded to this day we are now going to the city or better a small village that is nowadays the most popular spot for illegal immigrants to cross the border point is in tijuana they are now so carefully observing every meter and centimeter of the wall that it's almost impossible to get through neither at the night nor in bad weather no way to get through yet there is a town only 40 minutes away from tijuana with an actual mafia or corporate network bringing people across the border we have to meet one man now a guide who knows all the trails and leads people i thought coyote hugo will cover his face but he says he doesn't plunge into the u.s territory for more than a kilometer and the mexican police don't give a [ __ ] about what he's doing so there's no point in hiding really the real danger comes from a different type of people now they have to pay off the cartels as well the coyotes if you don't pay you won't cross point is tracks the coyotes use to smuggle people cartels used to smuggle drugs so they say pay we control this territory that's why we are not raising the prices hugo's route from the point of departure to the entrance point on the us territory takes about 40 minutes [Music] it's unbelievably hot here like in the desert the farther you go from the ocean the more desert it gets there'll be even less greens it'll be like that scene from breaking bad maybe you remember when walter white's trousers were flying far away this kind of scenery starts there [Music] the best moment to cross is when it's raining because rain will wash away footsteps in the sand it confuses migration officers we reach casino there is no wall there only fence do you jump over somehow no we simply walk only thing is you have to pay attention the migrant officers you have to wait for the moment when they don't look how do you know when the migrant officers aren't watching you we have observers the corridor itself is not long you just run and arrive to the point do these observers work for the cartel no these are our people cartel only allows you to bring your people in together with the chicken that's how we call the migrants why do you bring people to the casino because it's easy it happens in the night when there are usually many cars it's convenient casino works 24 7. it's already on the us territory there we meet another man who brings people to los angeles they pay only when they arrive to the point hugo is only an employee of a big organization how much does it cost it depends on where you want to cross the border it's about seven thousand five hundred eight thousand for a mexican if you're a foreigner it costs from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars chinese pay eighteen thousand or even more brazilians also eighteen thousand venezuelans fifteen thousand costa rica thirteen ecuador fifteen mexicans get the cheapest do you have russians very few but the price is the same as for foreigners 20 000 these are expensive people hugo gains 2 000 per person has it ever happened you were caught yeah how it was around the line because we used the cross we used to cross the border differently people were given fake papers but the migration officers found out that i was with them they spotted fake papers and told me that i was their guide eventually i got one year in prison so you spent a year in prison yeah where here in san diego that's how people live it's basically a cage like in a prison for lack of a better word there is a big hanging lock now we'll go inside this is the place only for men so it's really tough it's stinky here i'll be honest it smells like old dirty rags yet people who own this so to speak shelter are doing their best because see the beds here are clean alexi yuno martinez is from honduras back in his homeland he served for three years in the army the constitution of our country forbids the president from re-election he was supposed to be in charge for four years only but the president used the military to keep his regime eventually my job became unstable because the criminal rate skyrocketed check this out even under the honduras constitution the president cannot be re-elected like in some other countries there's a criminal gang in our country called mara there are also the metres 18 los jolos all of those are names of big gangs if you have business you have to pay off mara 80 of your income so in the end it's not profitable and the moment you say no they go and kill your family alexi eventually tried to escape to the us i took a bus and rode to the end of the war there was an easy spot to cross the border i found a place without the wall but there were border patrol cars i waited for the night to cross the hill in the darkness and went for four days by the end of day four i ran out of water and food but i kept going i was already close but the motion detector worked in a second there were seven 4x4 patrol cars approaching me i wanted to run but i couldn't because when they saw me they pointed guns at me and threatened that they'd shoot i had no choice but to stop some migration officers spoke english others spoke spanish they asked me where i was from i told them i was from honduras they would ask me over and over what are you doing in this country how did you get here they asked other questions too i got pissed so one of them punched me in the belly i reacted and kicked him when i kicked him he wanted to attack me but other officers were holding him they told him to walk to the front they checked my shoes fingerprints even took photos of my legs i spent five hours in a car with air conditioning i was very cold but they did nothing only observed at 2 am they simply threw me out of the car on the grass what did you do after that i spent 7 more days there i ate only twice during that week before that when i was there police searched me i had around 3 800 mexican pesos cops of the line took the money from my wallet i had a mexican residence permit and cupr the unique population registry code they took it away from me and tore it to pieces [Music] [Applause] oh morning in this uh wonderful town called buena vista in the autonomous zone starts at 4am it goddamn starts at 4am it starts with a bell ringer tolling the bells so whether you like it or not you uh will wake up why so early because most of the population here are farmers so their working day has to finish around 1pm we've got some wooden cabin to sleep pretty cozy place i should say as you can see there are cracks in the wall to replace air conditioning it feels like you're sleeping in the middle of a forest where all living things are working at full volume shouting birds buzzing cicadas then something else the roosters start to shout from 2am for some reason when the bell ringer starts at symphony at 4 am there's a choir of roosters already i think it must be like a cartoon when they pull their necks and start cocooning all together [Music] the most interesting plantations are behind these mountains and mayor bruno who repeatedly denied any connection to the heroin fields brought us to the fields that can be [Music] filmed surprisingly we're with a mayor of a small town that's located very deep into the country yet the wildest animals we saw during the whole ride with some pigs still know how he goes everywhere with a convoy there are two full cars there with the local security and state police that sometimes does arrive here but only under very strict supervision from the mayor they ask him everything where to go where not to go what to do [Music] and here among the tussles of the bushes develops an unbelievable picture there are people working there is a donkey that these people ride so what do they do there is a machine here that can work either from a power generator or from the force supplied by those two mexicans who are currently trying to fix it this remarkable worker is called bartholomew he's 26 and most probably has never seen a camera before for the first five minutes of filming he's only laughing in response to any questions he doesn't like to talk but works for three men a working day starts at six am and finishes at six pm for example last week we earned four thousand pesos his task is to cut sugarcane and squeeze it in the machine so that they can take out a juice after that the juice is boiled in huge kettles it looks like a movie huge kettles looks like they're brewing some potions in reality they extract sugar we boil it for three hours then we dry [Music] it how much [Music] it turns into real organic sugar without any substitutes produced here in mexico smells like chocolate or candies [Music] it's incredibly tasty wow mind blowing no candy can match this it's the best sweet i've ever tried it's ideally sweet but not over sweetened sand it's something like a mix of you know very tender cookie dough ice cream with like very thin sugar and candies unbelievable you don't need any tea to rinse it down you can simply eat it this is a family business all the family works here rests and sleeps as well here near all those fields basically in the middle of the mexican jungle is located a house where these workers live there are many kids around i will show you the insides this room is the main one here people can eat together especially if there are guests they place a table cook now they're drying clothes here that's how the second room looks see there is only one window here and that's it a bed and many many kids they also dry here clothes theoretically you can live here without visiting the town all the necessary food is growing all around amazing this is a great fruit tree we climbed after crabapples when we were kids and here people climb after grapefruits here it is like at the market i want to try it how a grapefruit in the wild mexican mountains tastes [Music] brilliant man i want to add some martini to that you know it's not the dead ones from the local 7-eleven it's the real juicy one that you find at a good market if you're after martini you'd have to travel about two hours or you can enjoy a local party place just try and guess what kind of building this is this kind of shed also please note when they were building it there were not enough planks so some places were covered with small trunks this is a shop also a bar also a nightclub if the seller's in a good mood and they switch on the music see there are fridges inside with coke by the way coke here costs less than in russia around 50 cents next door is total chic look this is a restaurant here are the tables so you come order something to the owner or cook whatever you ask here is something like a kitchen table your order will be cooked there are pineapples prepared here by the way pineapples here are amazing and smell incredible she cuts them with such a knife note how the knife is made the blade is put into some clay pieces or something like that i've never seen anything like that before in the fridge you can find partially prepared food so it's not only about cocktails look there's meat fish chicken anything you want it's pretty cool you can sit somewhere here by the way there's bamboo instead of planks and there is a vip zone where i can't enter now in reality it's the kitchen they cook everything here there is a handmade barbecue here they took a metal barrel cut it and welded the legs to it so there you go a mini kitchen the only connection here is uh through speakers installed on the polls for example now they announce all who will have birthdays today surprisingly you can buy cards with wi-fi in the shop i was like holly duck so there would be a cell connection and uh an internet in town like in all the civilized world when i realized it i started to really watch after the mayor in his office another thing i simply couldn't figure out was why a small community of 2 000 people is investing into this mega construction project of a huge church bruno and his followers were talking about it exactly when a boy at the gathering was riding his toy car into the garage on the dirty floor the mace will be part of the church on the very top it will be the symbol for you to understand the scale of the project bruno hired a professional architect to work in this small village in the middle of nowhere under his supervision they are building a tremendous church its height is about 30 meters the architect's office even developed a whole brand book that illustrates and explains every picture every figurine and cipher on each wall and column moreover the church is built with so much dedication that the whole region has been living without construction material for months thomas is a local carpenter who used to earn money doing furniture and other stuff cea now because they're building the church all i can do is use the word they throw away after they finish their works before i sometimes earned 150 pesos a day or 15 well when i had orders today i i don't have anything not only wood is scarce now but also concrete look the stairs simply finish at some point and then people walk the shabby wooden one i want to ask the government to help people like me for example to have food sometimes they eat my tortillas only with sauce no meat no veggies just tortilla and some sauce so now beef no chicken no i can't afford meat so people are not feasting in terms of nutrition kids play with empty bottles there is no internet even though technically it's possible to provide access to the worldwide net and here is for instance the mayor's house who by the way constantly surfing the internet from his mobile phone a sign of a rich house is a satellite dish here we have two of them which means the house is super rich now look at what else we have here there is some sort of front garden with palms here we have a relaxed warthog crazy [ __ ] it's not a warthog but a wild pig also very rare it's a super rare animal in russia here it's a common local animal they keep them cook it's a local delicacy also there are some ducks strolling around this warhog then we have a house this is the main room where people live a living room here we also have a kitchen with an oven to make tortillas it's the main dish that they cook 24 7 for breakfast lunch and dinner it means three four times a day another sign of it being a rich house is that tortillas here are made with meat as i discovered later it's not some beef it's a super rare animal armadillo it's this wonder animal in armor whose predecessors lived in the times of the dinosaurs 35 million years ago well the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago but still actually when i heard the word i couldn't figure out what it was i didn't know the word armadillo and there was no dictionary to use but i can say it tastes like a posh marbled steak top quality and almost without bones another interesting detail here is i don't know what to call it correctly from the medical point of view it's the bag where the animals balls are it's some symbol very secret when i asked them they said uh we can't tell you the meaning of this symbology here we also have a fridge another sign of a rich house is that there is electricity here also a luxury for most of the people when i linked the dots i figured that buena vista is a settlement where all people could live like the mayor but people have nothing to compare their lives with nowhere to read that they can live differently nowhere to learn from about reasons to rebel or to complain and most importantly no source of education because there's no internet things are the way they are curious fact bruno's fellows have internet access so you will have putin now until uh 2036. are you serious how come you know about that from the social networks it's unbelievable that people so far away know about it after finishing his fishy business the mayor rides into the town in a huge jeep with convoy and really looks like king and god it flatters his ego with slight inclination towards dictatorship look i have my own town if people in the town live differently there'll be no questions but using people's weaknesses to cheat them and keep them in the darkness well we've seen such cases tijuana is a cheap city especially compared to nearby usa if a good tourist blogger came here he'd definitely show you beautiful sceneries and they are marvelous indeed he'd show you how to ride this cable [ __ ] along the mountains the central square caesar salad that was invented here i so it's basically long lettuce leaves and a bit of bread the sauce is tasty but it's literally lettuce with sauce i don't know looks like a ripoff i want to take a handful of chicken and throw it on top well generally if you avoid the river canal and don't go around too much tijuana is a wonderful place for example to have a bbq with a view of california armando does exactly that he's been living and working in los angeles for years he has american citizenship but he rents a vacation apartment in tijuana i only come on weekends so it just it's easier for me i'm not dealing with them every day by day basis i don't do business here so you know the struggles of starting business i'm not going through all that stuff for me it is to come here and relax so i choose a nice apartment i have a very nice friend and it just uh we can get away for me i'm hoping one day soon yeah i can stay stiff indeed mexico is a country with amazing landscapes wonderful food and great people so if you're thinking of it as a tourist location don't ever be in doubt people love and respect their guests here the next episode is coming really soon from a totally unexpected country so please subscribe and like the video now this was leodov and how people live [Music] do you

Channel: The People

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Id: -g-oFlcL_sE

Length: 60min 33sec (3633 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 26 2021

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