re: #524 wrenchwench

I agree. Another aspect that makes them such a threat is the entrenched corruption that helps them thrive. And that is crossing the border. As your cousins know.

Sadly, that entrenched corruption is as much a part of Mexico’s history as anything else. It goes all the way back to the beginning, from the time of the conquistadors and has only gotten worse in the centuries since.

I was just in Laredo this past week for Christmas and went out with some of my cousins, including one of the police officers, for a few drinks. You can’t even mention the cartels openly because you never know who’s around and if they might consider you a threat— and we were in a nice, fairly middle class bar just hanging out watching football. If that’s not a much bigger threat to this country than some jackass who lit his underwear on fire, I don’t know what is.