Military inspect vehicles as protocol security before drivers enter to Medica Sur Hospital, where Mexico City's chief of police, Omar Garcia Harfuch remains hospitalized after he was injured last Friday during a shooting in a dramatic assassination attempt by drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). (Juan Carlos Williams / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
VICE News’ senior reporter Keegan Hamilton travels to Michoacán, where Mexico’s modern drug war began and continues to rage. To understand the effects of a seemingly endless cycle of police crackdown, cartel realignment and displaced civilians, Hamilton gets unprecedented access to various sides in the war—including the dominant Jalisco New Generation Cartel led by one of the DEA’s Most Wanted cartel bosses, El Mencho. MORE:
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