Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas
Hosted by Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas · IRONCLAD
4.5from 336 ratings
- 153
- Episodes
- 54
- Transcribed
- 336
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 41M
- YouTube views
About Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas
New Episodes Every Monday. An unfiltered look at real stories from America's Southern Border. Each week, special operations combat veteran, actor, writer, and veteran BORSTAR Agent Vincent “Rocco” Vargas sits down with guests to discuss the ruthless forces driving mass migration—organized crime. This season, Borderland: Narcosis takes an unfiltered look at the criminal networks fueling the crisis, from human trafficking and the drug trade to extortion and corruption embedded at every level of society. An IRONCLAD Original
- Publisher
- IRONCLAD
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 12 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
54 of 153 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Cartel War That Turned Zacatecas, Mexico into a WAR ZONE: Katarina Szulc & Vince 'Rocco' Vargas
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Canada's Cartel Crisis: Assassinations, Extortion & the Bishnoi Gang's Reach (with Kim Bolan)
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
This Journalist Spent a Month in Cuba: What He Saw Was Shocking
Inside a recent episode
The Cartel War That Turned Zacatecas, Mexico into a WAR ZONE: Katarina Szulc & Vince 'Rocco' Vargas
Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So it's going to be interesting to see how this war, I guess, plays out, because it seems like this is a sub cell of CG&G that's very powerful and moving up pretty fast. So that's what's happening in Zacatecas. There's something that says in late August there was a car bombing that targeted a police station. How common is it that police are getting targeted in these kind of attacks? Is this always happening now? It's fairly common, yeah. We see it a lot in Michoacan, in Sinaloa, even in Jalisco a bit, and then in Zacatecas for sure. But this is very much like if the law enforcement is on your adversary's payroll – you go for the law enforcement. […]
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- Katarina Szulc
- Kim Bolan
- Sean Williams
- Chris Dalby
- Michael Gannon
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 40,561,773
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 123 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 213 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 69
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas host the show. Published by IRONCLAD.
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