Do Drug Cartels Even Exist? - Blood $atellite

Dimes and Judas review “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency” by Ioan Grillo. Here they investigate not only the complex history of the Mexican drug trade but also the claim that it is both the invisible hand of the market market and the criminalization of drugs that causes the death cult terrorist beheadings. Continuing on, they review of “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist” by Oswaldo Zavala. Presented is an anti-neoliberal-capitalist analysis of the Mexica drug war based on the supposition that cartels are a security state invention to justify the status quoTaken from Episodes #292 – Leaf Knife Blood Droplet Black Pregnant Man & #294 – Bucceesian overLARPing Magisteria | Listen to Full Episodes and More at bloodsatellite.caTimestamps:00:00 – “El Narco” Review Begins05:37 – The Trade of Guns Flowing South07:10 – The Zetas11:09 – The Blossoming of Cartels Due to Democracy16:40 – The Sinaloa Cartel Dynasty Exists and Knows What Drugs Are20:36 – Mexicans Stole the Drug Trade from the Chinese24:43 – Did the CIA Fund the Drug Trade in WW2?27:22 – The Drug War as a Spigot for Latin American Military Support31:43 – The American Bureaucratic War of Alliances Inside Mexico33:56 – Cartel Capture of Organs of Power and The Problem of Supporting Competition43:38 – Narco Religions and Catholic Death Cults52:52 – Narco Propaganda in Podcast Tours57:50 - “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist” Discussion Begins01:04:22 - The Narco as Imagined by the Military01:07:12 - America Driving the Drug War in Mexico01:11:32 - The Metaphysical Corpse of El Chapo01:17:59 - Reaffirming the Agency of Mexican Drug Pushers in the Market Narrative01:26:53 - Relocating the Center of Power to the Security State Apparatus01:30:25 - Drugs as a False Mimetic Crisis