Don't think of them as one. I'm the General in charge and I don't care of what happens, when I'm offered $50 Million for protection. Especially when refusal me

Don't think of them as one. I'm the General in charge and I don't care of what happens, when I'm offered $50 Million for protection. Especially when refusal means death for my entire family. This is repeated in every situation or region. Now I'm in charge and this is my chance to get rich and survive. A lot of these narcos carry multimillion dollars in cash with them, if they get caught they buy their way to freedom. $2 million and let me go. Why would someone not take especially if the one up the chain will probably still free him...? A state, any state, can take on private armies. They can get all the help needed from USA and EU if they were weak. Even Escobar was beaten, one way or another. Cartels employee a lot of people but the state can make them fight each other and then take on the winner. But then, what does Mexico have to offer to the many millions that wet their beaks in the drug trade? Go work daily on corn fields for $x a day when you can make $xx on opium ones?