Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"

Chasing Ghosts is back!

There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well.

I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.

References:

Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers