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.
- Programme: The Insider: Reggie Yates
- Series: 1
- Episode: 2: In the Mexican Drug War
- Channel: BBC Three
- Broadcast year: 2016
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