[mgist]

This goes back a few months but it provides some insight into how the government works with cartels, occasionally throwing in a few bones of arrest to keep up appearances of legitimacy.

The cartels are in charge, and the El Chapo's getting arrested aren't the leaders. The cartel leaders are bankers and national leaders.

ISIS, al Qaeda, FARC, Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban are nothing but soldiers for the cartels. You will see the same pattern of pretense of war on drugs/terrorism, with what appears to be an occasional success.

[UCANSEE2]

I said this the day they ‘arrested’ El Chapo.

This is the same thing the government did with the ‘mafia’.

They put these old men in jail mainly because they were being ousted by their own kin.

Guzman was ‘offered’ to the FBI because somebody else had taken over his ‘operation’.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That guy on Telemundo who dresses like a bumblebee?

[lwd]

One of the rumors floated after his arrest (which was waaay too easy) was that it was a look-a-like/impersonator.