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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The drugs on the US side of the border are worth at least triple what they are worth on the Mexican side of the border. Anyone smuggling drugs has the chance of loss baked into their business model, the smugglers that are running drugs on credit don’t last long. The police and journalists also find the highest price they can to price the drugs at. The smugglers probably bought the drugs for less than a million from a cartel, and they are probably getting most of their shipments through.
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