I read recently of smugglers busted with $18 million worth of meth hidden in a vegetable shipment. It was around 16 tons. For the smugglers, Aside from of going to prison, are the smugglers indebted to the cartel or do the cartels see it as a cost of doing business?
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Cartels don’t care about the drugs. They care about the money. Losing $20 million street value meth is not a $20m loss to the cartel. They expect to lose product going over the border. Losing $20m cash on its way back, that’s a huge problem. Doesn’t matter as much anymore since there’s identity fraud and wire transfer scams sending it back to Mexican accounts rather than cash actually being smuggled out.
Long story short: get busted carrying dope in, don’t snitch and do your time. Get busted or lose money going back, family tortured first and then they kill you.
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