David McWilliams
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So they basically hijack
the Wi-Fi, repackage it, and extort money from your average person.
They're under death threats.
So basically what you have is you've got an enormous, enormous illegal industry.
And then that money needs to be washed and needs to be cleaned.
So you've got enormous money laundering industry across huge sectors.
They're buying hotels.
This is basically the mafia, right?
And then, of course, the whole point of the cartel is they embed themselves into public life at every single level so that anything material has to go through them.
So you can imagine the amount of backhanders
that I've gone through on the building of the World Cup stadiums alone.
And the whole World Cup infrastructure because the World Cup, again, is ideal for money laundering because it's a service industry and people need cash.
So you can see it's all going on.
But even if you look at like an extraordinary figure, Mexican produces no weapons.
Right, okay.
They have no arms industry.
Right.
80% of all their weapons come from the United States.