So if I wanted to get a meeting with El Mencho,
what would I have to go through in order to get to him?
It'd be tough doing.
He is known for very, very strict security measures.
He basically is up in the mountains of Jalisco.
He's surrounded by something like five security rings,
each ring with a couple of hundreds of gunmen,
and their minefields that you have to know your way around.
If you go, we know from a couple of people who we were told went up there that they're hooded.
They have to leave all electronics behind,
and they're taking on what is a six-hour journey up into the mountains of Jalisco.
He sounds extremely heavily guarded and extremely hard to get to.
Yeah, he is.
By all accounts, he is.
That's our colleague Jose de Córdoba, who's based in Mexico City.
The reason El Mencho, whose full name is Nimesio Oseguera,
is so well guarded is because he's become one of the most powerful drug lords in the world.
And he's feeding America a seemingly insatiable appetite for cocaine.
You should know that the cocaine trade is really exploded and it's it's has expanded enormously in the last couple of years and so that's you know the US Has not that it ever went away,
but the US has rediscovered cocaine According to one drug testing company cocaine consumption in the western part of the US has gone up by 154 percent