Having had to deal with the Mexican Military, the Mexican Government, AND the drug cartels down there I can say one thing.

THEY ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME!

Mexico is ruled by 26 families. Four of which ARE the drug cartels.

When I worked on an archelogical dig down there 30 years ago, I got a VERY good education about Mexican Politics and REALITY by some very good Mexicans that were working with us at the digs. Only about one in four pieces found at the dig went into the National Museum. The rest 'disappeared' into the private collections of the 26 families or were sold. The items that were not sold were stone. The GOLD ALL went away.

One only has to see how Mexico deals with EVERYONE in the southern portion of their country to know the government there is MORE corrupt than ours is, and that IS saying something.

Folks and the major media can preach all they want about them being different, but folks who have been and lived there know different!