The cartels are stronger than the central Mexican government and they’ve usurped the role of government for themselves.
Mexico is evil and crime and corruption ridden and has been since the state ran the Roman Catholic Church who were educating the masses out of their impoverished nation. Churches were destroyed, priests and nuns executed and the mass edicted illegal.
There’s a two-fold reason the majority of Mexicans are illiterate: their schools are very poor and their government is corrupt!
Americans don’t even know American history much less Mexican.
Plus, the Leftist education establishment will not point out the anti-clerical Leftism which has been the driving force of Mexican politics since at least Juarez.
Mexico is a basket case but The Disaster was elected by America. It has little to brag about for smarts.