Katarina Szulc

And if they say no, I go and ask someone else or I ask differently.

I don't really take no for an answer.

And I convince them why I'm the right person that they can share this information with or take me along, whether that's law enforcement or it's organized crime people.

It's a way to flaunt their power, flex their muscles, show people, look, I'm doing all of this crime.

I basically run Mexico.

I run the drug trade, and I'm committing violent acts in broad daylight, gruesomely.

And I'm giving this information to the press.

And catch me if you can.

That's certainly what it is.

I think it's an ego thing, for sure.

It's a flex, 100%.

For some people, it's also kind of like media relations.

They put this message out there, an adversary hears or sees it, and they're sending a message.

Yeah, so I went to a border region where some members of organized crime spoke with me, and they're responsible for

significant amount of the trafficking and human smuggling operations.

And this was right after Trump had officially declared them FTOs because there was a lot of rhetoric around this previously and even Texas Governor Greg Abbott had previously declared them FTOs.

But now this was real and this

I had assumed was going to invoke a lot of fear, especially when it came to the financial pipelines, because that's what this act really attacks, is the cartels finances.

And that's so much worse than putting a bounty on their family members or stopping the flow of drugs.

Like for them, it's the money, freezing financial assets, shutting down their shell companies, whatever it is.