S1E2: In the Mexican Drug War | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Duration: 49'32''

Synopsis

Documentary in which Reggie Yates visits Acapulco, Mexico, to live the life of a soldier fighting on the front line of the brutal war against the country's powerful drug cartels.

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