David McWilliams

That he's robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

And he has so much money that he has to give it out.

He has to give it away.

Mm-hmm.

And again, the cartels in Mexico are doing the same thing.

What they're doing is they're giving welfare to people.

They're giving rations to people.

They're saying, they're basically, you know, doing what all mafiosos do.

They're buying off the electorate because what they're trying to do is undermine profoundly the credibility and the effectiveness of the state itself.

So this is happening all the time, right?

And again, where they are most prevalent, ironically, you know, you kind of think...

that it's sort of big stuff and it's big drug deals or whatever.

No, actually, what's most prevalent is in this informal economy.

You know, street vendors, fellas selling tacos, you know, all this sort of thing, you know, tortilla sellers, these sort of things.

It's estimated that the informal sector, which is about over half the population in general Mexico...

is being preyed on by cartels, right?

There's a thing called the piso, which is a cartel tax, which is essentially a money, it's a heist.

So they're extorting people.

Like what the provost did on the UVF in Belfast.

You know, you have to pay your protection money