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Ghost Protocol: How America Hunted El Chapo

June 9 · 7 min · 6.8 MB
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The 2016 recapture of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán wasn’t just a Mexican law enforcement operation — it was the product of years of intelligence fusion between JSOC, the DEA, the CIA, and Mexican special forces operating in the shadows. In this episode, we break down Operation Black Swan, the interagency architecture that made it possible, and what it reveals about how America wages war on cartels without ever officially going to war. This is the story they don’t put in the press release.