David McWilliams
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Oh God, yeah, absolutely.
So again, human smuggling, right?
And then just general extortion, John.
Basically going up
You're a commoner gardener.
You're a commoner gardener extorting money out of businesses.
Probably about $1.3 billion is extorted from like fellas with taco vans and things like that, you know?
And so it's endemic.
97% of all extortion by the cartels goes unreported in Mexico because people are terrified of them because they kill people in their thousands.
Oh, we've seen that.
And of course, then the general prostitution, weapons, frauds, all sorts of fronts for frauds, taxi businesses, laundrettes, all that sort of, especially, John, avocados, which is one of the great money laundering fronts of Mexico.
Really?
Because you can make your drug money legal if you can be seen to actually have massive avocado farms.
So it's all linked.
And of course, the thing is that
The cartels are now getting involved in niche industries like telecom, right?
Small towns in Mexico.
One story showed that high cost of internet was being forced on its citizens by the cartels.
Right.