Mariana van Zeller
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optometrist, all of it.
And it's all catering to Americans, right?
And so vast numbers of Americans come every year and buy their drugs there.
And there are pharmacies, there are chain pharmacies that look, there could be a CVS, but in Mexico.
It's not a CVS, but it could be sort of brand name that you recognize in Mexico.
But what we did with the cartel is we were trying to figure out how they get their medications in these shelves.
And we filmed one cartel member.
He allowed us to film.
We couldn't go inside, but I had him.
He had a mic, so I was able to listen to everything from the car.
He goes into a pharmacy and basically tells the woman they're like this.
And the meds look, we saw them making them.
They look exactly like the real thing, the packaging, everything.
Some of it actually comes from the legitimate places that they steal from the factories, like the packaging and all of it.
But they basically tell them, okay, you put this on your shelves, and if you don't, we're going to burn your pharmacy.
So we heard that.
And so a lot of them are forced to carry them.
I don't think they do, no.
I doubt that they knew, for example, that there was fentanyl and meth mixed in with some of their other medications because that creates a huge problem for them.