> the cartels are the government this isn't always accurate, but it is de facto true in essence there are generally only two types of official governments in mexico: 1. cartel stooges - people who won't do a fucking thing because they're in cahoots with the cartels 2. hitler in the bunker - people who can't do a fucking thing against the cartels no matter how bad they want to because they need a wall of security 20,000 men thick in order to avoid becoming a liveleak grotesquerie theoretically, mexico could have a functional government, if the american deep state wasn't equally in bed with the cartels and busy bitching about "muh democracy" - military dictators in mexico had a pretty good track record reining in criminals during the 20th century when they didn't have to worry about things like "human rights" and "free and fair elections"
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