David McWilliams

They say there's such a problem in the United States that this massive consumption of all classes of drugs and everything, but you see Mexico's caught physically as well as...

economically between north america and latin america that mesoamerican area is just caught it's just the it is the only way going north to south and vice versa and also to europe you know because all the coke in europe and europe is a bigger consumer of coke than america is at this stage

There I was thinking it was just waffles and beer and moule and frites.

But you're saying the Belgians are... And we're going to do a...

Could well be a narco state.

Yeah.

Okay, hold that thought.

Yeah, yeah.

Listener, you heard it here first.

We're going to be talking about Belgium, the narco state, very soon.

But let's go back to politics and the narco state in Mexico.

Because, of course, what they're doing is they're paying judges, they're paying cops, they're paying politicians.

Everybody is enmeshed with the narco state.

30 candidates running in Mexico's 2024 election last year were murdered by the cartels.

For not playing ball.

I mean, the murder rates are extraordinary.

Murders associated with political violence have risen by 356% from 2011 to 2024.

And they're very public as well.

That's the other thing about those murders.

Exactly, because it's to say that I'm the big guy.