{"id":1493,"date":"2015-12-10T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:20:59","slug":"vice-news-on-philippine-shabu-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/vice-news-on-philippine-shabu-cartel\/","title":{"rendered":"VICE News on Philippine Shabu Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Philippines&#8217; growing addiction to meth (shabu) is a hot spot for international meth\u00a0cartel syndicates. VICE News takes a closer look.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">VICE News<\/a>, an international news organization, sheds light on the Philippine drug cartel with a trailer on its upcoming piece titled,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/video\/crystal-meth-and-cartels-in-the-philippines-the-shabu-trap-trailer\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8cgqKBgRNYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Philippines is a rapidly growing hub for the crystal meth drug trade, and this is why Mexico&#8217;s cartels are vying for a place in the Asian country. This is evidenced by the recent bust of Mexican national Horacio Hernandez Herrera, allegedly a high-ranking member of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa Cartel. In the arrest, over $255,000 worth of meth, locally known as\u00a0<em>shabu<\/em>, was seized.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1495\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1495\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1495\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican drug cartel leader arrested in the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of CNN Philippines)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>The Shabu Cartel<\/h3>\n<p>In the past decade,\u00a0<em>shabu<\/em> has immensely grown in popularity especially among the urban poor, as unemployment rates continue to skyrocket.<\/p>\n<p>In the feature, VICE News sheds light on the Philippine <em>shabu<\/em> drug trade as it visited the slums of Manila, spoke to dealers and police officers alike, and uncover the deep-seated corruption within the law and order system itself, which proves to be the biggest enemy in the fight against\u00a0<em>shabu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer again\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/video\/crystal-meth-and-cartels-in-the-philippines-the-shabu-trap-trailer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines&#8217; growing addiction to meth (shabu) is a hot spot for international meth\u00a0cartel syndicates. VICE News takes a closer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/vice-news-on-philippine-shabu-cartel\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[158,159],"tags":[28,97,37,169,24,7,30,31,8,14,16,70,71,215,216],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/horacio-hernandez-herrera-mexico-meth-shabu-cartel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}