It isn't just the brutality and the number of victims, it is the sadistic methods employed for maximum effect on their enemies.
Here you go Santa Muerte Death Cult
The flaccid Catholic Church in Mexico much like they did in the 1930's and 1940's in Europe sits by as genocide happens. As long as cartels throw a little money the churches way, the churches remain silent and complicit. The drug cartel worship in these cults and Blood and Gore is payment for their good fortunes.
“It isn’t just the brutality and the number of victims, it is the sadistic methods employed for maximum effect on their enemies.”
Unless the word gets out widely about who did it to whom there is little if any effect. Right now it’s just a bunch of unsolved mass murders with the perps getting no propaganda boost which is why they did these murders in the first place.