Why would this surprise you?
SA has a history of these things.
I do find it odd that the old ways are making a comeback via the drug cartels.
Just 15 years ago it was safe to sleep on the beach.
What we are witnessing is power through terror.
It happens in the Middle East everyday.
Central America does, and maybe it’s migrating more into Mexico now (even though Mexico makes some pretty stiff efforts to keep Central Americans out).
Could be a confluence of unanticipated consequences. The Sudafed crackdowns in the USA drastically reduced the number of clandestine drug labs here, but has also pushed meth production into Mexico. Also as the USA seemed to freely accept the most enterprising of Mexicans, invited or no, as Mexico itself encouraged them to go north, the lazy riffraff is left behind in Mexico.