I am more talking about the bosses. I just can’t understand what they do with their money to enjoy it. I mean if you are on a most wanted list, I assume you can’t drive around in a 400k luxury car or stay in the biggest house with all the extravagant parties.
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Why has this subreddit turned into “how do the cartel and mafias work?” This is like the 20th time I’ve seen similar posts this weekend…
They don’t hide. You can see their opulent compounds clearly flying over the jungle. Finding them isn’t the issue. Doing something about it is.
I think paying off important people including government officials helps on this regard. The police, prosecutors, etc, or anyone else in a law enforcement position, if they’re corrupt, can easily be paid to look the other way.
They own enough people in the government,federal and local, to where they are not a problem. Then you have a literal army. Put those two together and you can do whatever you want in your area as you basically own it.
# Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller explains this well.
[https://youtu.be/dMayrvVOMOo?si=MFVY7jfReLvKn1Ea&t=163](https://youtu.be/dMayrvVOMOo?si=MFVY7jfReLvKn1Ea&t=163)
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Government corruption is part of it. If you bribe the local government and populace, they protect you.
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I lived in Mexico across the road from a big wedding venue that was regularly booked by narcos.
I asked the people I was living with it was ever raided. Everyone knew who was there and when.
No, because the narcos have more power than the government. If you wrong them, they will kill you, they will kill your family, they will kill everyone you’ve ever loved. They will do that even if you didn’t wrong them but they suspect you might.
You will never be safe in Mexico or the US. If they go to prison they will have their people still running things and they will track you down and kill you.
Politicians, journalists, are killed regularly. Being a journalist in Mexico means you’re either a mouthpiece for the cartel (i.e. the government, which works with the cartels) or you risk your life every day.
this is a fictional example but look at gustavo fring from breaking bad. that’s basically how they do it. they look like successful businessmen but if you really dig you’ll find something else
Laundered money.
No large scale criminal organization exists without a way to wash the money. At a local level it can be restaurants, pubs or go-cart track, on paper the business is thriving.
The business is given 10,000 a month cash, now the furniture is leased or stoves, freezers, arcade games. 8000 is washed back through lease payments to the legal arm of Organized crime Group as clean money that can be invested in trucking, real-estate, construction.
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