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Mexico's cartels are basically CIA proxies and have been for a long time. They coordinated very closely with the DFS and their various rebrands which were in turn a way for the CIA to operate without having to use their own agents. They did the shady shit they didn't even want Mexican feds to do, and that's a scary fucking bar.
The cartels have a lot of money and a lot of power on the ground, but it's suspicious as hell that they keep on the cutting edge of CIA insurgency tactics, supply chains, drone warfare, hacking and even psyops to this day. They also conveniently strike exactly where and when the US government would like, as in the case of the new Culiacanazo around the national elections.
In Latin America, these organizations are very, very reactionary, and the US continually plays a role in keeping them that way. Within the US, I really don't know, but it's very telling that there's rarely any prosecution of traffickers in the way Latin America continually has to do. Yet the flow of drugs remains the same, and they keep getting sold in US streets and the money laundered in US banks.
Are we really supposed to believe that US corporations are in control of every market in the world but the richest and most powerful criminal organizations and their leadership are all abroad? CIA most likely advises against disruption because the biggest US gangs are in their pocket too.