92 - Narco-Economics: Inside the Mexican Drug Trade
The Red Line
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The Role of the CJNG in the Mexican Drug Market
Scott Misler Ferguson is a notable investigative researcher working for various organizations focused on organized crime and trafficking, with a particular focus on Latin America. He has written several grain analysis pieces on organized crime in Mexico as well as his recent inroads into the drug markets of Asia, Africa, and Europe. When we get to these larger organizations, like the Jalisco cartel known as the CJNG or the Cinelloa cartel, yes, they still form kind of an outsized part of this market. But are they controlling in a monopolistic level to the standard where they can set the price that they want in the United States when they're selling in Europe? No, I do not think that
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