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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Cost of doing business. If they keep their mouth shut about the operation and do the time those thungs generally are forgiven.
My best friend got caught with 150k of weed and as much cash in the early 00s. The guys he worked for weren’t worried about it because they knew he was solid and they paid for his lawyer. The money was never spoken of again.
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.
I work as an international drug smuggler for the Biden Crime Family and there last year I lost a few million worth of meth on them. We were supposed to be using it to flood the MAGA market in Minnesota. So now as my punishment to the cartel Jill Biden has me teaching 5th graders that drugs are bad. So its been a bit of a rough year for me. But in general Joe is a good cartel boss, we get healthcare and the wages are always paid on time.
These are often unstable people. There is no doubt they do kill people due to mistakenly believing they scammed them or simply out of anger. Some cartels are significantly more violent than others. Still, in general, it is such a significant part of the cost of doing business that it would be impractical to be punishing people for every mistake. They’re not actually losing $18M, either. That’s always the value in the destination country. The fact so much of it is seized is part of why it’s more expensive in the US.
Is there a good book on this subject?
Depends, if you get caught, that might be no big deal, cost of doing business. But if you suspect you are about to be caught and then dump the drugs to protect yourself, that’s not cool and will earn you a bullet in the head.
https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/ucluelet-mystery-hells-angels-behind-murder-of-two-sailors-15-months-ago
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