Narcoland Exposes Corrupt Relationship Between Drug Cartels And Public Institutions

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An English translation has been released of the book Narcoland by Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez, and the author confirms that organized crime cannot exist without public corruption as she reports for CNN:

I found complicity at the heart of Mexican government, business, police and drug cartels. * * * Currently, all the old rules governing relations between the drug barons and the centers of economic and political power have broken down. The drug traffickers impose their own law. The businessmen who launder their money are their partners, while some local and federal officials are viewed as employees to be paid off in advance, for example by financing their political campaigns.

It all sounds like the same way things are done in America.

Indeed, a number of retired border patrol agents have alleged in an open letter to the American people that the Mexican cartels have obtained political protection on the north side of the border in order to establish their criminal networks as reported by Matthew Boyle for Breitbart:

"Transnational criminal enterprises have annually invested millions of dollars to create and staff international drug and human smuggling networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise that they continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives in place as a means to guarantee continued success," the Border Patrol agents wrote.

The Mexican cartels move $50 billion in bulk product and bundled cash across the border each year, and have established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in hundreds of communties throughout the United States.  There is no way that such a well-entrenched operation could be so successfully accomplished without a little help from well-placed friends.