The Chicago Twins Who Built a Cartel Empire

Two identical twins from Chicago's Little Village became the Sinaloa Cartel's biggest distributors in America — moving an average of 1,500 to 2,000 kilos of cocaine a month and, by their own guilty pleas, helping move approximately $1.8 billion in drug proceeds back to Mexico. Then, in the fall of 2008, Pedro and Margarito Flores did the one thing nobody in that world survives doing. They picked up the phone for the DEA — and recorded El Chapo himself. This is the full story: the rise, the ledgers, the cartel war that squeezed them from both sides, the recorded call of November 15, 2008, the price their family paid, the secret guilty pleas, the 14-year sentences — and the tapes that helped put Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán away for life. Facts drawn from federal court records, DOJ statements, and reputable reporting. Figures from testimony and reporting are identified as claims in the narration. New documentary thrillers every week on Tales From Your Thoughts. #TrueCrime #ElChapo #Cartel #Documentary