Again your just exaggeration stuff and blowing it out of porpotion.When a rival cartel cell goes into a rival's territory the first thing they do to attract heat is mainly to kill (or try to convert them to switch sides) "Los de punto" or street dealers(which are also cartel civilian gunmen sometimes) that sell drugs locally for the rival then "Halcones"(they carry guns and are cartel gunmen a lot of the times) or the look outs and finally the police departments or police officers themselves. There has been propaganda videos/banners of the Gulf Cartel(which is famous for) or La Familia saying the Zetas are killing innocents in their area or whatever but there isn't any or many concrete proof that they kill innocent civilians to bring heat to make a viable claim they do.
I'm not sure how me stating facts is exaggerating. The original disagreement was whether the cartels killed innocent people or not. You said they don't. The facts say otherwise. Them being in the minority, including when cartels go into their rival's territory, is beside the point. Them not killing innocents left and right has nothing to do with a code or honor. It's bad for business. But if they see a reason to, they won't think twice.
