Drug Enforcement - The Godfather Thing?

Gardo, the godfather of mexico's drug cartels, was inspired to make a revolutionary move after his partner in crime died. He agreed to divide up Mexico into different regions and let each cartel control their own territory. This is where we get stuff like the snola federation or the ariano felix brothers out in tiawana. But he also realised that they don't need to fight the law as long as they can buy it with money from governments. And since then, new groups have risen to power - leaving vacuums in leadership and crime just like nature abhors a vacuum. In this quick and dirty history already we see a clear pattern. The crim