“Narco-traffickers are replaced faster than coca grows - criminals can’t get a higher profit margin anywhere else.”
It isn’t hard. Just have to have the willingness to take the fight to them. The way to beat them is to terrorize them.
The Soviets in the 70’s proved it works. Someone sent them a finger, they sent back a head. You start wiping out middle management and eventually no one wants the job.
Granted, maybe not in a weekend. However, finding Narco heads strewn along a highway somewhere will make people think. Do it enough and you eventually get the people on your side.
So you advocate becoming the Soviet Union in order to achieve Soviet levels of drug activity? Sorry, I prefer the Constitution.