AMLO slams US 'spying' after traffickers charged

You hit the nail on the head. US corruption is hidden in a different way. Drugs and Drug enforcement is a business in the USA just as it is in Mexico, and lets not forget Canada in this. Canada was doing the same thing for many years. BC bud being grown in warehouses using grow lights out in small towns with no jobs. New Trucks, houses being built, furniture being bought, bank accounts being opened, school programs being supported, city halls being refurbished. Who would want to stop this influx of cash? It is only when the product produces more problems that what is solving is when the politicians will begin to do something. At this point, a few stone heads dying from OD is not a bid enough problem.

That's why we will never see a solution to the drug problem, or any other problem that turns a profit, why "underdeveloped" nations remain that way. This is the result of allowing a few dozen people to hold more wealth than the rest of the population combined. I'm currently reading Jason Hickel's Divide and it is about the economic disparity across the world, of which the flow and interconnectedness of drugs, money and guns is no small part. You might call it Critical Colonialism Theory, the idea that--even though we live in a supposedly post-colonial world, the wealthy nations, US, Britian, Western Europe (and sometimes Canada) still institutionally view the rest of the world as colonies.