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Two Mexican drug cartels came to dominate America’s fentanyl supply

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Re: Two Mexican drug cartels came to dominate America’s fentanyl supply

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You cannot have dominant players in a supply chin if there is no demand

What are you suggesting exactly.

Not op. But that they lured addicted people of other substances and blackmailed them into creating their cartels like they all do. Building loyal "family members to ensure proper chains of command and heavily militarizing to deal with non complicit individuals and police.

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isn't MX the country where four dozen activist college students were murdered, many years later a senior, acting Federal attorney was arrested for the covering up the investigation? (edit)

Re: Two Mexican drug cartels came to dominate America’s fentanyl supply

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And a lot of that violence spills over the border into the US. Bloody cartel murders, extortion, and such are common in the southwest US and beyond. The Mexican government and politicians are all somewhere in between being controlled by the cartels and too scared to do anything about them. That is casus belli, legal grounds for war, by any reasonable understanding of international law.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you suggesting exactly.

Not op. But that they lured addicted people of other substances and blackmailed them into creating their cartels like they all do. Building loyal "family members to ensure proper chains of command and heavily militarizing to deal with non complicit individuals and police.

Well stated. When I said "you cannot have such a supply chain without demand", I had in mind, the notion that there are society-wide issues in play which are ignored in favor of funding a massive "war on drugs". Maybe misplaced societal priorities? I cannot say; that's way above my pay grade, but it's clear to me that, in the broad vistas of human behaviors, we (the big we) do not seem to have a clear picture of what's really going on.

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isn't MX the country where four dozen activist college students were murdered, many years later a senior, acting Federal attorney was arrested for the covering up the investigation? ( edit )

It was 43 and a reporter that recently released updated information about that attorney and a local mayor who was involved was killed hours after publication just last month.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/mexic...

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