Mexico’s curse stretches nearly 2,000 miles, it’s huge rich neighbour the United States of America is the worlds largest consumer of illegal drugs, beyond the American border that insatiable appetite needs a supplier and Mexico has been that supplier for more than 100 years. Alcohol during the prohibition, cheap workers for generations and now the most valuable products of them all illegal drugs of every description.

In this Sky News special report we see correspondent Stuart Ramsay go inside Mexico’s illegal labs to see how this 1 billion dollar a year industry operates and learn how the cartels have come to dominate all life here.