I believe it, and I agree that the corruption there is total. As bad as the Zeta’s are, I think the Govt/pols are just as bad. The Mex military is nothing but an enforcement wing for their ‘dealings’. Many a story down there of the same kind of things happening at Federalies checkpoints - cars taken, people vanishing etc. long before the Zetas ever came on the scene. With Mexican friends, I’m sure you’ve heard the stories as well.
We are Texans and have made many many trips to Mexico over the years, hunting, fishing and vacationing. Never again! We had several scary things happen to us personally before we gave it up and decided to never go back.
Our first bad indication of the corruption was when my husbands uncle died in Mexico of natural causes. The family had to actually buy his body back from the city of Cozumel before we could get him back for burial.
They had just tossed his body into a cooler, not even laying him out straight. When finally enough money had been paid we sent a private plane with a casket but because of the way he was dump he wouldn’t fit into a normal casket. So we had to find a bigger casket and a bigger plane. After thousands of dollars had been spent we got Uncle Jack home for burial.