> Ok, you are not accounting that war against drugs started in 2007 specifically under Felipe Calderón so that report is outdated Alternative sources all appea

> Ok, you are not accounting that war against drugs started in 2007 specifically under Felipe Calderón so that report is outdated Alternative sources all appear to be contemporary to that report. I’m happy to consider other data, but I’m hesitant to give Calderón’s policies the benefit of the doubt, given the dramatic increase in cartel violence [0] under his tenure and his solicitation of bribes from cartels while in office [1]. > The activities that I mentioned specifically oil robberies started after it and that generates way more than marihuana Oil theft in Mexico cost Pemex $1.5bln in 2016 [2]. Assuming cartel revenues from marijuana have fallen 50% since 2007, oil theft revenues would still need to grow 3x to rival those from marijuana. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-death-toll.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/americas/mexico-dru... [1] https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/chapos-lawyer-claims-cartel-bribed-presidents/ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/chapos-lawyer-claims-cartel... [2] https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/mexico-state-oil-company-lost-billion-theft-2016/ https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/mexico-state-oil-com...