Kingdom of Shadows Page #3

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To me at the time,

that was a lot of money.

So it just became

part of the routine.

About every two weeks do a load.

I would get up, go down

to the river real early.

There was less surveillance,

and most people are about

halfway asleep at that time.

You know,

they don't notice things.

That's when I would come out

and then drive to the city,

drop stuff off,

pick up money

from the previous load,

and head home

and go back to work.

I was not an employee

of anybody down there.

I dealt with rival factions,

and that's very much against

the norm of what goes on today.

You would not be allowed

to do that today.

I'd been buried down

into the organization so far

that I didn't even have

a clue where I...

You know, where I fit

in this thing.

And there was a multinational,

international business going on,

and I was just

a little cog in the wheel.

- Rough justice in

the Mexican City of Monterrey.

The two corpses found hanging

were, according to local media,

members of 21 drugs cartel.

- I actually spent some time

in the Middle East.

You get danger pay.

You get armored vehicles.

You would get escorts.

You know, and it's considered

a danger post,

but I actually felt safer

in the Middle East

than I did in Monterrey.

I was assigned

to the U.S. consulate

in Monterrey.

We were investigating

high-level members

of the Gulf Cartel

and high-level members

of the Zetas.

The difference between the Zetas

and your traditional cartels

is that the Zetas,

they don't follow

any sort of rules.

The majority of the

high-ranking cartel members,

they grew up in the drug game.

Their father was

a cartel member.

Their grandfather

was a cartel member.

All these individuals

know the rules.

You don't kill anybody

unless you're absolutely sure

that they're either

a source, a snitch,

or they're a rival cartel

that needs to be taken care of.

You would never see just mass

killings of innocent people.

It was targeted.

- I've called it a game changer

when the Zetas got

into the dope game.

The Zetas were

a group of military

that were specially trained

to go after the cartels,

ultimately as a group

defected from the military

and offered their services

to the Gulf Cartel.

You give them

a little bit of power,

you know, you give them

unlimited weapons,

and they're military.

If you hit the military,

what do they do?

They strike back,

and so a lot of these guys,

they have that mentality

where, you know,

we don't care who you are.

You know,

we're gonna go after you.

These guys don't have that-

those unwritten rules

engraved in their head.

[gunfire]

- Move!

- We could almost feel

the tension building.

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