The Politics of the Drug Cartel

The work cartel is what in political theory is called an empty signify, right? I was gonna say the empty vase. So if the drug cartel peddling heroin or cocaine was something that drove the national security mentality in the 90s, now of course the traffickers have become parallel to not... You know, the radical terrorists, right? The organizations that are just out there, you know, terrorizing civil society on both sides of the border and that engage in all kinds of sophisticated crime,. including for example oil theft and gas resources. Some cartels are even blamed for illegal extraction of energy resources. In parts of the country where ironically where the extraction is done mainly by transnational companies from China