Cartels

Much like the Mafia expanded into legal businesses via the Vegas casinos the Mexican cartels are moving into new areas. Sometimes outright ownership of a business but more often extortion much like the protection rackets used by the mob. The cartels are heavy into the cab and bus networks, limes and corn tortillas and chicken processing and distributing. The cartels represent 20% of the countries GDP and are the fastest growing sector. With their $280 billion of annual income they can buy and/or control most businesses and they are actively doing just that. In a recent trial of Mexican Security Chief Genaro Luna testimony from cartel insiders El Grande and El Ray Zambada explained how they paid him millions of dollars to protect their operations, take out their rivals and went into the cocaine deals with him. The cartels are not only raising havoc in the United States they are slowly taking over the government of Mexico.