I doubt there is much violence in the U.S. at the hands of cartels, because you'd never hear the end of it from Trump, FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, etc, if there were.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
