The image that I had of the cartels was that there might be two or three big ones, and they've sort of reached sort of a mafia-like agreement about who has what territory. Turns out that's all wrong. When the U.S. got El Chapo, his cartel sort of disintegrated into warring factions trying to take over what was left. So apparently the Sinaloa cartel was like a business. What's left is more like gangs. And now it's just violence and interfighting. Now, under that situation, you would have to deal with them a little bit differently. But anyway, good to anybody who's smart enough to take the free money and denounce

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