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What If Joining a Cartel Is the Rational Choice?
Mexican cartel corruption starts with a choice you've probably never faced. Your options are starvation, death, or work for an organization where you might still die, but you eat today and your pocket has cash. You'd call it criminal. Someone living it might call it rational.
The same logic driving cartel recruitment in Michoacan operates identically in Montreal and Toronto, according to Dr. Jerry Flores. When formal systems stop meeting basic needs, the illicit market fills the gap. The engine keeping it all running? Legally purchased US firearms crossing the border from Texas, New Mexico…
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