How Drug Cartels Recruit Their Members

Hollywood tells us people join drug cartels for money, power, and glamour. What’s really happening is far more chilling.

In this episode of Mexico Decoded Podcast, I speak with Pablo Ferri, a journalist for the Spaniard newspaper El País, who specializes in organized crime.

His work has revealed a hidden reality: forced labor inside drug cartels. A horror few outside Mexico truly know, and one that changes everything we thought we understood about how organized crime keeps itself alive.

Let’s get into it.