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Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent

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REPORTER: For decades,

Mexico has been ravaged by violence from deadly drug cartels.

(GUNSHOT)

90,000 people missing and hundreds of thousands murdered.

(MACHINE-GUN FIRE)

The multi-billion-dollar industry of narco trafficking

is one of Mexico's biggest exports.

The cartels are entrenched,

with many in government and the military on the payroll.

Why do you think they let you do what you do?

(SIREN WAILS)

In the Mexican state of Sinaloa,

the city of Culiacan sits at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains.

It's home to the Sinaloa drug cartel

and the site of some of the most fierce battles

in Mexico's drugs wars.

Violence has become a way of life here.

(SIREN WAILS)

There's just been a shooting in the middle of Culiacan.

We think it's related to cartels.