People think that all the cartels are the same or act the same but it's very far from the truth. For example the Sinaloa Cartel opertes more like a mafia inflatrating the goverment institutions like the state police ministry, governors, police commanders, military commanders etc. to brand them support recognizance. While the Gulf Cartel operates more like a military unit with paramilitaries in their units like sicarios, bullet proof trucks and so on. Los Zetas or now named Cartel del Noreste operates more on movement and intelligence operatus they have a signfied central intelligence body composed of ministerial police or intelligence police commanders and soldiers/police as their central unit with paramilitary units or forces as sicarios in their day to day activities but they rely more on their central intelligence called "Katas" for anything. The Gulf Cartel has divisions on their cartel in charge of different activities suck as extortiong, racketerring, human smuggling, drug trafficking and so on. There are vastly different cartels and from each other and operate differently. The Jalisco Nueva Generation are more like old school Zetas with a paramilitary aparatus but they also have an terror or terrorism tactic to them. They have repeteadly attacked the state and high ranking officals and SEGOB agents which are central to the Mexican state. They do this because they have Colombians on their payroll on structure which as we know Colombians are used to attack the states of countries particularly Colombia and they bring that state of mind into Mexico and Jalisco Nueva Generation.