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Lopez takes great pains to avoid law enforcement, but then, in 2005, a police surveillance operation catches him in the act.
洛佩茲下了大力氣來躲避執法機構。但在2005年，一次警方監視行動將其抓了個現形。
To avoid life in prison, he turns informant for the US government.
為了逃避獄中生活，他轉身做了美國政府的線人。
Now, he lives in grave danger. The cartels are known to kill those who betray them.
現在，他的生命處于極度危險之中。據說卡特爾組織要除掉背叛他們的人。
Out here in the streets if you have a green light, you're pretty much dead.
如果你獲得許可，離開這里到街上，你幾無活的可能。
And anybody that knows that you have green light has the go-ahead to go ahead and to kill you. If that's what they need to do.
知道你得以放行的人會搞到通行許可出來，然后除掉你。如果那就是他們要做的。
The Mexican meth trade relies on hundreds of traffickers and dealers like Lopez.
墨西哥冰毒交易依賴于數百名洛佩茲那樣的毒梟和毒販。
Every year the cartels produce approximately 220 tons of meth for the US market alone, with an estimated revenue of 8 billion dollars.
每年，卡特爾組織單為美國市場生產的冰毒就近220噸，預計獲利80億美元。
Meeting this demand requires industrial quantities of the chemical ingredients.
要滿足這個需求，其化學組分的產量要達到工業級。
To obtain these so-called 'precursor' chemicals, the Mexican cartels turn to the world's main source of ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine: Asia.
為獲得這些所謂的“前體”化合物，墨西哥卡特爾組織轉向麻黃素和偽麻黃堿的主要世界來源：亞洲。
In China and India, a small number of pharmaceutical factories produce thousands of tons of pseudo-ephedrine for legitimate use.
在中國和印度，少數藥廠生產幾千噸偽麻黃堿用于合法用途。
Criminal middlemen legally purchase vast quantities of these chemicals, and then sell them to illegal meth producers.
犯罪集團中間人合法地大量購買這些化學品，然后將其賣給非法冰毒制造商。
In Asia, a kilo, or about 2.2 pounds, of pseudo-ephedrine costs $68. But international criminal organizations, like the Mexican cartels, pay up to $10,000 for the same kilo.
在亞洲，一公斤，差不多2。2磅的偽麻黃堿，價值68美元。但是墨西哥卡特爾那樣的跨國犯罪集團，同樣一公斤要支付高達10000美元。
The chemicals are sent to super-labs all over the world, where they're cooked into methamphetamine and distributed regionally.
這些化學品被運送到全世界的超級實驗室，在那里，它們被燒制成脫氧麻黃堿并按地區進行分配。
The trade supplies up to 51 million users worldwide.
其交易滿足了全世界510萬吸毒者的需求。
In the U.S. , imported Mexican methamphetamine is rapidly spreading eastward.
在美國，入境的墨西哥脫氧麻黃堿迅速向東蔓延。
With increased Mexican immigration, traffickers and dealers now hide within law-abiding Hispanic communities across America.
隨著墨西哥移民的日益增加，現在毒梟和毒販藏身于全美的合法拉美裔社區。
Many roads from the Mexican border lead to 70% of the 250 tons of meth coming into the U.S. originates from Mexican sources, like the one used by Juan Lopez.
進入美國的250噸冰毒，其中70%來源于墨西哥。胡安·洛佩茲吸食的就是。
But Mexican Ice isn't the only kind of methamphetamine available.
但是，墨西哥冰并非唯一的甲基苯丙胺品種。
Unlike heroin or cocaine, methamphetamine can also be made at home, using a concoction of readily available household chemicals.
與海洛因或可卡因不同，甲基苯丙胺還能作坊式生產，通過對容易入手的日用化學品進行配制。
Barry County, Missouri: a sparsely populated area of fields and farmsteads that stretch for almost 800 miles.
密蘇里州巴里郡：人煙稀少，田野和農莊綿延近800英里。
Narcotics Agent Larry Keen is from the South West Missouri Drug Taskforce.
毒品偵探拉里·基恩來自西南密蘇里州毒品特別工作組。
Hey Adam, how many times have we arrested this guy?
嘿，亞當，我們抓了這個家伙多少次了？
I've arrested him 3 times, over.
我抓了他3次，還多。
