Originally Posted by furio_from_naples
Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
Comparing the current power of any criminal organization in the USA to a criminal organization in Mexico is apples and oranges really. Mexico's a structural mess and the law enforcement and military over there are an underpaid joke. Even a comparison with Italy is quite off. Sure there's corruption in Italy, and plenty of it as well, but Mexico's a whole different ballgame. The country basically allowed to sit back and watch how cartels took over entire swaths of the country. Such thing is basically impossible in the USA and it will never happen in Italy either.


That because the cartels have the money to bribe every level of society, from the cops from army officers to the most powerful politicians and anyone who wants to oppose them doesn't have the power to do it.


They have the money to do this in Mexico, because a lot of elements of the society are completely underpaid and everything from law enforcement to the army is in fact completely powerless. In the USA such thing would never happen, regardless of how much money the local criminal element has.