Do Cartels Exist? A revisionist view of the drug wars. It's a super bad title for the piece for a LOT of reasons. It currently has five comments, which I didn't expect to see. The last time I looked at it, there was only one comment and it starts off "The cartels certainly think they exist..." The title makes it sound like "drug dealing in Mexico doesn't really exist" and that's clearly the interpretation of the person who left that first comment: That person apparently thinks the piece is saying "There are NO DRUG DEALERS in Mexico. It was completely fabricated by corrupt governments, a fairytale to cover up their own corruption." which isn't at all what it says. It is saying that, yes, drug dealers exist and illicit drugs are big business in Mexico but characterizing them as cartels is misleading and most likely is done to serve the needs of the people making such characterizations of activities that are, by their very ...
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