This is what artillery is for.
I’m sure a 120mm mortar attack would pacify these narcos right quick.
yeah... everyone talking about artillery and mortars needs to read up on SUCCESSFUL counter insurgency and urban combat tactics. want to create a bunch of additional cartel gunmen... start mortaring and shelling neighborhoods. the populace isn’t hostile and no counter insurgency of killing a bunch of civilians has ever worked.
Mexico would be much better off targeting (meaning, using deadly force) Cartel leadership AND their families... just like Israel has successfully done in the past.