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What is Hezbollah? | The War on Drugs
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Hezbollah is a Lebanese terrorist organisation and the political party responsible for deadly attacks all over the world. This is the story of how they became major players not just in the Middle East hash trade, but in the global cocaine and amphetamine business – trafficking tons of drugs across the world, and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for South American cartels.

Even murkier is how a major DEA investigation into these activities was allegedly undermined by the CIA and the White House – leading agents from different agencies to all end up accusing each other of endangering national security.

00:00 Intro
01:35 Beqaa Valley Weed
04:48 Trafficking Captagon
06:41 “This Was Some of the Biggest Drug Trafficking We’ve Ever Seen in the World”
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@VICE

7 months ago

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@Paul_Michael

3 weeks ago

I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

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@darkersideofthemoon8657

10 months ago

"We would like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs"

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@riddlerecsful

10 months ago

"trafficking drugs to non believers is ok" I love the mental gymnastics involved here

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@windowlicker_4207

10 months ago

No matter how bad the world wants to paint cartels and gang members as the bad guys, we know that it's really the people who work for these governments, militaries, or police forces, that are doing so much worse. Corruption at the top is what fuels these problems

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@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly

9 months ago

Governments are much bigger at this game than any cartel will ever be

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@judylandry302

10 months ago

"The War on Drugs" in the U.S is an annual $100 Billion Dollar Industry. Taxpayer dollars are lobbied for, budgeted and used to fund the Criminal Justice System, employs millions of people, in numerous local, state and federal agencies, and funds thousands of contracts to corporations, dedicated to this operation. Illegal drugs in and from foreign countries are an integral mainstay of The United States economy.

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@CapitalVices

10 months ago

The DEA ”A group of drugdealers investigating a group of drugdealers”

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@FaithRox

10 months ago

Why would the Federal Agencies take down their own operations? 🤔

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@rob5598

10 months ago

Hard to "take it down" when our own CIA is involved in it🙄

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@ehaaron

9 months ago

"trafficking drugs to non believers is ok".💯 Thank you vice for being brave and exposing the cult. ❤

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@mohamadsami7131

10 months ago

Thanks for sharing this!

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@BILLYBOBB3080

10 months ago

We didn't try to fix it. We went into business with them.

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@Joseluz1969

8 months ago

Very informative, the DEA vs CIA dispute in the Cassandra operation. Case in point: In 2022 the US Treasury sanctioned former president of Paraguay Horacio Cartes under the Magnitsky Act, accusing him of laundering drug money for Hezbollah.The guy owns a few banks and basically half of the countrie's big business. The US government repeatedly threatened to deport the him to America to undergo trial and there was even an airplane sent to Paraguay to allegedly fly him back to the US . But a year has gone by and he is still alive and kicking. This really baffled me, until I saw this video.

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@AQpizza

8 months ago

Absolute favorite series on YT

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@ChilsonTV

10 months ago

title fix: "how the U.S. funded and armed narco-terrorists"

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@piku5637

10 months ago

Just legalize, tax and regulate most drugs like we do with alcohol and tobacco. Decriminalize the most harmful others. And have rehabilitation treatment centres available as part of a universal healthcare system. Therapy in general needs to be universalized too. Better than leaving it up to the dark market.

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@smarttarded

8 months ago

Its been a while since I watched a program like this from Vice, glad its making a comeback

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@Snowycaaa

10 months ago

A bit hard to counter something you helped established

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@JayjiNZ

10 months ago

Great to see another episode of this series

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