Just finished watching “Narcos” series on Netflex. Get a chance to watch it. History of the big drug lords, cartels, true story of several DEA agents who tried to do right thing but governments including ours, made it difficult.
While those DEA agents were putting it on the line to stop the cartels, the CIA was working with the cartels to import drugs for their off the books operating dollars.
Our fedzilla government was, essentially, at war with itself.