A Mexican drug cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at wildly inflated prices — they sold them chicken “not fit for human consumption.”
  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    I wonder why it’s so hard for the Mexican govt to dismantle the cartel.

    Does anyone have any good documentaries or books they’d recommend?

    • cogman@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Corruption is a big reason. Mexican government leaders tough on the cartels tend to end up dead

    • Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      ‘Just try it’-cartels

      They have as good or better weapons as the military at times. They have a stranglehold on governments, from the small town mayors to the capital.