Mariana van Zeller
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And he agreed, and he traveled out to me, and we met.
And he said, look, I've been dying to tell this story because if I get whacked, which he thought he might, he wanted his story to be out there.
He wanted somebody to have heard his whole story.
Yeah, and he'd been threatened by the cartel.
They'd sent him photos of his house, and they knew exactly where he lived and where his family was.
They ask for our phones to be off.
Where we go in Sinaloa is areas that are operated and controlled by the cartel.
It's not as if law enforcement doesn't know exactly where they are.
They just don't want us recording.
And they are afraid that if we by any chance are being followed by American law enforcement, they're way more scared of American law enforcement than they are of Mexican law enforcement.
A lot of corruption.