Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi...
by loeg on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:23PM
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Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Government_co... ,
> In May 2010 an NPR report collected allegations from dozens of sources, including U.S. and Mexican media, Mexican police officials, politicians, academics, and others, that Sinaloa Cartel had infiltrated and corrupted the Mexican federal government and the Mexican military by bribery and other means. According to a report by the U.S. Army Intelligence section in Leavenworth, over a 6-year period, of the 250,000 soldiers in the Mexican Army, 150,000 deserted and went into the drug industry.
Only the Zetas are really “offshoots”, having been started by former anti-drug special forces IIRC, the rest are more business partners.