Don't know much about cartels but I know a surfer who told me he and several other SoCal surfers quit doing Baja when the Arellano-Felix cartel lost control of the region. Evidently that outfit managed to keep the bloodshed away from the tourists, and whoever took over doesn't give a fuck.


"...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