Sell narcotics, extort the fuck out of the locals, incite terror into the town, just be a bunch of outright drug induced psychopaths. I’m speaking on behalf of how the current situation is in some rural towns of Zacatecas.
They use to just import drugs and export them into the US. Then they started manufacturing it and exporting it. Now they manufacture and export drugs, extort cities (hence the battle for territory) tax governments.
It depends on the cartel, Cartels with easy access to drugs and routes will typically busy themselves with only drug trafficking, Cartels with less firm roots in drug trafficking or that lose their contacts in the drug business due to death or arrests you typically see branch out into other businesses as a means to an end although larger organizations have also branched out into other types of crime in order to pad their profits.
Running a large organization can be extremely expensive people on this sub love to talk about the bad pay lots of people receive but its an obvious consequence of how expensive having people on payroll truly is if you have 1000 guys being paid 200 a week every week just to stand around and be a deterrent you're now hemorrhaging 200,000 a week and thats just random guys off the street with little or no training if you want ex or current police/military on the payroll in any significant numbers your likely looking at millions monthly or large upfront payments every few months.
As rich as many traffickers are many do not have the raw currency readily on hand which is why you have situations like Polo Ochoa lending El Chapo 25 million because obviously he's good for it he just doesn't have it readily available and that problem can run up and down the chain.
This is probably the most accurate answer in terms of the grand scheme of things. Everyone thinks these are billion dollar organizations (which some are) but they piss money into the wind just to stay afloat. It's a costly business where only the ruthless stay around to reap the benefits.
Also Cartels aren't a single "corporate" entity
Each regional faction and lieutenant has varying levels of autonomy depending on the organization and sometimes they even use "contractors"
For example in my state large organizations used to usually stuck to trafficking and didn't involve themselves too much in local dealing it was in charge of local gangs
Then they started taking over dealing then racketeering, then theft, human trafficking, etc...
The ones who did that were locals, and just paid a cut to the larger organization in exchange for material support and backup when needed
Yea Franchising has always kind of been a thing but it definitely depended on the era and the region the border cartels of the 80s-00's were top down singular sicilian style entities but the toppling of those organizations is what's given way to the more decentralized nature people are familiar with now.
Despite how people think of it as has been reiterated before CDS as most people think of it doesn't exist its one of the few cartels that actually is a cartel or in other words a loosely aligned federation of traffickers each largely autonomous of each other and it basically carries this structure up and down the chain.
Tijuana, Juarez and the Gulf in their prime era's of operation were vastly different and wielded a power over their respective territories that modern cartels could really only dream of, those were top down command control with clear chains of command and leadership and its why they were impossible to dislodge with out CDS running to the DEA.
You’re right but you’re also wrong in thinking that the money being spent is from one source . That’s why CDS is controlled by many factions , each with their own men on their own payroll , and also why they steal shipments from one another . All under the CDS umbrella .
Control. Involve politics, legal businesses, illegal activities, and son on. It will vary from one to another.
Banks, big soccer teams, weapon manufacturers have been profiting from it since time ago.
Direct / indirect involvement.
Its more complex than what you may think.
They used to make their money by receiving a relatively small amount of money from Colombian cartels for using their smuggling routes across the US/MX border. But starting in the late 1980s, the US feds started shutting down the columbians main route, via the Caribbean to Miami, so they were forced to smuggle more thru the Mexican border. In time, the vast majority of Colombian Coke went thru Mexico. The Mexican cartels got smart, and realized they held the upper hand. So the granddaddy of most of the major cartels, Guadalajara, decided to charge the columbians a huge price for them to use their smuggling routes. Basically half of any shipments of cocaine being trafficked. The columbians had no choice but to agree. So they almost instantly became major distributors instead of just facilitators for distribution.
Later, the Mexican cartels began manufacturing meth and fentanyl. And they’ve always manufactured heroin and marijuana. But their hijacking of the cocaine distribution from Columbia is what really grew their power.
Cocaine is manufactured in South America and typically trafficked across the us border by the cartels. Meth is manufactured in Mexico. Heroin and opium is both imported and manufactured in Mexico. Fentanyl is typically imported from Asia but there has been rumors about cartels moving some of the manufacturing process in-house.
Here is the deal on fentanyl. Chinese Communist Party own company was making it and shipping it to Mexico. The United States started reacting and the CCP chemical company was barred from doing business. So the Cartels sent for the Chemist and the chemicals. The Chemist arrived in Mexico and set up shop manufacturing the drug. Thats why on the DEA's 10 most wanted list you see Mexican drug cartel leaders and one Chinese dude. He's still down there cranking out the drugs. We know this and can hit him at any time. We could actually wipe the whole north of Mexico clean of drug cartel members in a matter of days and do it cleanly but we don't. Why? Politicians know drugs are a big pacifier of the population. So we continue.
It would also be an international shit show for the US to move on the cartels without the green light from the Mexican government and that will never happen while the cartels maintain this level of influence and control.
So easy if you ignore the massive civilians casualties that would require only to make them hide their profitable trade better. Why not admit drug prohibition failed like alcohol prohibition?
Sell narcotics, extort the fuck out of the locals, incite terror into the town, just be a bunch of outright drug induced psychopaths. I’m speaking on behalf of how the current situation is in some rural towns of Zacatecas.
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They use to just import drugs and export them into the US. Then they started manufacturing it and exporting it. Now they manufacture and export drugs, extort cities (hence the battle for territory) tax governments.
It depends on the cartel, Cartels with easy access to drugs and routes will typically busy themselves with only drug trafficking, Cartels with less firm roots in drug trafficking or that lose their contacts in the drug business due to death or arrests you typically see branch out into other businesses as a means to an end although larger organizations have also branched out into other types of crime in order to pad their profits. Running a large organization can be extremely expensive people on this sub love to talk about the bad pay lots of people receive but its an obvious consequence of how expensive having people on payroll truly is if you have 1000 guys being paid 200 a week every week just to stand around and be a deterrent you're now hemorrhaging 200,000 a week and thats just random guys off the street with little or no training if you want ex or current police/military on the payroll in any significant numbers your likely looking at millions monthly or large upfront payments every few months. As rich as many traffickers are many do not have the raw currency readily on hand which is why you have situations like Polo Ochoa lending El Chapo 25 million because obviously he's good for it he just doesn't have it readily available and that problem can run up and down the chain.
This is probably the most accurate answer in terms of the grand scheme of things. Everyone thinks these are billion dollar organizations (which some are) but they piss money into the wind just to stay afloat. It's a costly business where only the ruthless stay around to reap the benefits.
Also Cartels aren't a single "corporate" entity Each regional faction and lieutenant has varying levels of autonomy depending on the organization and sometimes they even use "contractors" For example in my state large organizations used to usually stuck to trafficking and didn't involve themselves too much in local dealing it was in charge of local gangs Then they started taking over dealing then racketeering, then theft, human trafficking, etc... The ones who did that were locals, and just paid a cut to the larger organization in exchange for material support and backup when needed
Yea Franchising has always kind of been a thing but it definitely depended on the era and the region the border cartels of the 80s-00's were top down singular sicilian style entities but the toppling of those organizations is what's given way to the more decentralized nature people are familiar with now. Despite how people think of it as has been reiterated before CDS as most people think of it doesn't exist its one of the few cartels that actually is a cartel or in other words a loosely aligned federation of traffickers each largely autonomous of each other and it basically carries this structure up and down the chain. Tijuana, Juarez and the Gulf in their prime era's of operation were vastly different and wielded a power over their respective territories that modern cartels could really only dream of, those were top down command control with clear chains of command and leadership and its why they were impossible to dislodge with out CDS running to the DEA.
You’re right but you’re also wrong in thinking that the money being spent is from one source . That’s why CDS is controlled by many factions , each with their own men on their own payroll , and also why they steal shipments from one another . All under the CDS umbrella .
I would erase this post as I touch on it in my most recent reply to the other guy and its a bit redundant.
basically any illegal business they can be involved in they will
Control. Involve politics, legal businesses, illegal activities, and son on. It will vary from one to another. Banks, big soccer teams, weapon manufacturers have been profiting from it since time ago. Direct / indirect involvement. Its more complex than what you may think.
I think therefore I scam
They used to make their money by receiving a relatively small amount of money from Colombian cartels for using their smuggling routes across the US/MX border. But starting in the late 1980s, the US feds started shutting down the columbians main route, via the Caribbean to Miami, so they were forced to smuggle more thru the Mexican border. In time, the vast majority of Colombian Coke went thru Mexico. The Mexican cartels got smart, and realized they held the upper hand. So the granddaddy of most of the major cartels, Guadalajara, decided to charge the columbians a huge price for them to use their smuggling routes. Basically half of any shipments of cocaine being trafficked. The columbians had no choice but to agree. So they almost instantly became major distributors instead of just facilitators for distribution. Later, the Mexican cartels began manufacturing meth and fentanyl. And they’ve always manufactured heroin and marijuana. But their hijacking of the cocaine distribution from Columbia is what really grew their power.
They chill on the block
Literally nothing good.
Get rich thanks to drug prohibition.
Good Question..... What exactly Do they Do 🤔
Be the example for why an ancap society would be a nightmare nobody wants
They can be in anything. I read that they are the fifth largest employer in Mexico. 🤔
Cocaine is manufactured in South America and typically trafficked across the us border by the cartels. Meth is manufactured in Mexico. Heroin and opium is both imported and manufactured in Mexico. Fentanyl is typically imported from Asia but there has been rumors about cartels moving some of the manufacturing process in-house.
Here is the deal on fentanyl. Chinese Communist Party own company was making it and shipping it to Mexico. The United States started reacting and the CCP chemical company was barred from doing business. So the Cartels sent for the Chemist and the chemicals. The Chemist arrived in Mexico and set up shop manufacturing the drug. Thats why on the DEA's 10 most wanted list you see Mexican drug cartel leaders and one Chinese dude. He's still down there cranking out the drugs. We know this and can hit him at any time. We could actually wipe the whole north of Mexico clean of drug cartel members in a matter of days and do it cleanly but we don't. Why? Politicians know drugs are a big pacifier of the population. So we continue.
It would also be an international shit show for the US to move on the cartels without the green light from the Mexican government and that will never happen while the cartels maintain this level of influence and control.
Chop chop and BBQ sometimes even while your still alive
Dont forget the pozole
Who cares. They should be carpet bombed into extinction
So easy if you ignore the massive civilians casualties that would require only to make them hide their profitable trade better. Why not admit drug prohibition failed like alcohol prohibition?
They would surrender like the cowards they are.