Rodrigo Canales: Don't underestimate Cartel organisational brilliance (or DEA idiocy and corruption in its fifty-year losing phony sham "war on drugs" for permanent employment)
Rodrigo Canales is an associate professor at the Yale School of Management.
"Our traditional framing is that drug dealers are crazy, ruthless criminals, but I realised they were playing a much more sophisticated sport.
"Because drugs are illegal and physical in nature, the only way you can reliably guarantee to your customers that you're going to deliver, is if you control the territory through which you transport them.
"The way you control competitors is through violence. To control the authorities you use what in Mexico is called 'the law of silver or lead'; meaning if you're the local authority, do you want to earn a lot of money? Or do you want me to kill you?
"And if you want stability in your territory, it's very useful to have local people on your side, or at least not openly against you. In many cases, the most sophisticated organisations establish good relationships with local communities. They help with other types of crime. They invest in the community, and have sophisticated communication strategies to provide a narrative for why they do what they do.
"Organisations which operate effectively have a well-defined structure, culture and set of values. They have YouTube channels. They use social media both to recruit people and communicate with each other.
"The Sinaloa Federation - which is often cited as the most powerful of the Mexican organisations - is quite disciplined about not engaging in other crime, which allows them to retain good relationships with locals. Their brand is professional multinational drug organisation.
Another Sham Success In The Phony "War On Drugs" Dramatically Pictured By "War On Drug" Actors Below:
Another Sham Success In The Phony "War On Drugs" Dramatically Pictured By "War On Drug" Actors Below:
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"At the other extreme we have Los Zetas. Born as an enforcement arm to the Gulf cartel, the first cohort used to be an elite corps within the military. They maintained the military structure and chain of command. As Los Zetas grew, they overtook the Gulf cartel.
"They've developed a brand of being the most ruthless, violent and feared of the cartels. Once they dominate a territory, they take over all criminal activities within that territory, including extortion and prostitution.
"If you think about the way drug policy has operated in the world and especially in Mexico, we have created an evolutionary environment where only the most ruthless, violent and sophisticated organisations can survive. The ones that are not as sophisticated just get weeded out, either because the government or a conkmpetitor overpowers them.
"If we don't take a structural and complete approach, then they're always going to be ahead of us - we're just never going to catch up."
Having read the above readers may be unsurprised to learn that such truthful assessments are vigorously and or self-servingly contradicted with lies by those enjoying lifetime employment fighting the "war on drugs" see e.g. BBC World US-Canada News link following:
"We're being very effective with the resources we have, but we could use more ships and more aircraft" (who couldn't), claims Coast Guard Rear Admiral Christopher Tomney who remarkably thinks anyone still believes the U.S. is winning the phony "drug war" as he leads the U.S. task force now fighting drug trafficking for "only 26 years". The consistently disgraced DEA habitual prostitute party drunkards meanwhile gasping for relevance with the DEA's latest non-specific doomsday death figures for which it in any case is most likely is as responsible as anyone else. Here the telltale DEA statistically manufactured scare being only further to confuse another issue presenting unknown numbers of prescription combined with other uncertain drug deaths that are essentially meaningless.
That is except to demonstrate the endemically corrupt DEA once again likely is tasking itself with scheming yet some other totally misguided initiative which at best will do minimal damage at taxpayer expense and at worse another in a tediously long DEA history of signature totally failed initiatives serving most often only to expand the so-called phony "Drug War" in new and unexpected (to the DEA at least) directions and opportunities for others.
Most importantly the DEA must keep its drug cartel hosted drunken prostitute parties thriving abroad if only for tradition's sake after 50 straight years more or less of continuing the Nixon administration's cynically bogus totally failed as planned phony "War on Drugs" at grossly enormous cost to this Nation and the global community in nearly every way imaginable.
Meanwhile in addition to the Coast Guard and DEA now Homeland Security Investigations gets its hand in the weed seizing 60 tons of marijuana from San Diego cross-border tunnels. Hopefully that is not "medical" marijuana needed by AIDS, cancer and infant seizure patients.
Of course forever lurking out there among the most ubiquitous of federal agencies self-appointed to all manner of global adventures including complete disregard for its lack of any domestic mission and related authority in the domestic U.S. is the C.I.A. whether flying cocaine around allegedly in the past ltrafficking in cocaine illegally to raise funds for combatants in illegal conflicts, introducing drugs into the United States and more recently rumored even to be directing as "traffic cep" drug trafficking among Mexican drug cartels.
The Ninth Amendment is familiar with enough reliable reports with past posts here over time to relate the above examples of "rumored" C.I.A. drug trafficking and related activities although the subject obviously is not touched upon in the above-referenced BBC World US-Canada article. Such C.I.A. activity on its face clearly is contrary to or more exactly in complete opposition to all efforts further exposing the phony "drug war" of other agencies above described although. Of course the C.I.A. may be driven by some believed overarching even if incomprehensible and most likely illegal purposes (although perhaps not under DOJ "secret" nonsensical legal memos read by no one but once then hopefully forever locked away.)
Interested readers about the preceding above can find more descriptions of the latest successful large-scale drug trafficking techniques with helpful photos for implementing these opportunities at the BBC World US-Canada news link below.
That is except to demonstrate the endemically corrupt DEA once again likely is tasking itself with scheming yet some other totally misguided initiative which at best will do minimal damage at taxpayer expense and at worse another in a tediously long DEA history of signature totally failed initiatives serving most often only to expand the so-called phony "Drug War" in new and unexpected (to the DEA at least) directions and opportunities for others.
Most importantly the DEA must keep its drug cartel hosted drunken prostitute parties thriving abroad if only for tradition's sake after 50 straight years more or less of continuing the Nixon administration's cynically bogus totally failed as planned phony "War on Drugs" at grossly enormous cost to this Nation and the global community in nearly every way imaginable.
Meanwhile in addition to the Coast Guard and DEA now Homeland Security Investigations gets its hand in the weed seizing 60 tons of marijuana from San Diego cross-border tunnels. Hopefully that is not "medical" marijuana needed by AIDS, cancer and infant seizure patients.
Of course forever lurking out there among the most ubiquitous of federal agencies self-appointed to all manner of global adventures including complete disregard for its lack of any domestic mission and related authority in the domestic U.S. is the C.I.A. whether flying cocaine around allegedly in the past ltrafficking in cocaine illegally to raise funds for combatants in illegal conflicts, introducing drugs into the United States and more recently rumored even to be directing as "traffic cep" drug trafficking among Mexican drug cartels.
The Ninth Amendment is familiar with enough reliable reports with past posts here over time to relate the above examples of "rumored" C.I.A. drug trafficking and related activities although the subject obviously is not touched upon in the above-referenced BBC World US-Canada article. Such C.I.A. activity on its face clearly is contrary to or more exactly in complete opposition to all efforts further exposing the phony "drug war" of other agencies above described although. Of course the C.I.A. may be driven by some believed overarching even if incomprehensible and most likely illegal purposes (although perhaps not under DOJ "secret" nonsensical legal memos read by no one but once then hopefully forever locked away.)
Interested readers about the preceding above can find more descriptions of the latest successful large-scale drug trafficking techniques with helpful photos for implementing these opportunities at the BBC World US-Canada news link below.
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