Who are you kidding? Of course there are cartels!!! Just because the Fed started pretending nothing is wrong, doesn’t mean it’s true.
Fast and Furious was an example of Holder’s ATF providing an arsenal of weapons to the murderous Sinaloa drug cartel. Gang members have stated in court that they had agreements with Federal agents to bring drugs in, especially through Chicago.
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
JAN. 13, 2014
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl
In South America there is a term called “Nacion Narco”. It is when the government has been bought at a federal/national level, and they are covertly working for the cartels. During Obama reign, most of this hemisphere has fallen under the category of a Narco Nation.
The cartels run a $3 Trillion cash business, that profits from the misery of others. Unlike what most people think, they are sophisticated. They aren’t the henchmen, kingpins and gangsters on the street that go to jail. They are private bank owners, Hedge Fund Managers, business men, even national leaders, and work with Wall Street banks who are laundering $Billions, while the SEC looks the other way. They provide major funding to Washington’s influence peddling lobbists and “Think Tanks” such as Drug Policy Org.s the level of influence they have is beyond most people’s comprehension.
Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Lybia, talks with Iran, Honduras, are all examples of Obama supporting the cartels. People are clueless.
Everything that Obama has done in the Middle East has been to support regimes and rebels loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood who essentially the heroin cartels.
And our Pharmaceutical industry has to have the opium for their opiate pain killers!
This IS PROHIBITION! Legal for the king! Jail for YOU!
“Who are you kidding? Of course there are cartels!!! “
I think the basic structure of just three (as I recall) cartels has changed to many, each of which is less powerful and all-inclusive than the original cartels. This has heightened competition and lowered prices. The original cartels had territorial agreements they mostly adhered to. The fighting we witness now is symptomatic of the weakness of the new cartels. The old ones were so powerful they rarely came to blows.
So, the government was effective at taking out the centralized power structure of the three cartels. The government has been ineffective at taking out the smaller cartels because they’ve become like the mythical hydra. You chop off one head and two more appear. Each is smaller and less effective than the head you chopped. But that smallness does not make them less dangerous and their size has no impact on how much they can smuggle. It’s a losing game that needs to be fought on the demand end, not the supply end.