{"id":8748,"date":"2013-05-05T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2013-05-05T04:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T08:06:44","slug":"the-economics-of-drug-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-drug-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Drug Cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050513_0744_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little under a year ago Patrick Radden Keefe wrote an in depth piece about the operations of drug cartels. A few of the very many highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Custom built submarines, FedEx, and air conditioned trolley tunnels are all ways that narcotics make their way into the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Some arrested drug traffickers demand a receipt from the authorities for the drugs that were taken from them so that they can prove to their masters that they didn&#8217;t steal or consume the drugs.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s even possible to buy insurance policies that protect against seizure.<\/li>\n<li>Other sophisticated financial products include lines of credit given to drug retailers who can&#8217;t afford to pay for the upfront cost of the product.<\/li>\n<li>While drug cartels don&#8217;t pay taxes the amount that they have to pay in bribes is likely equal to that of the corporate tax rate in Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>These bribes mean that even when they are arrested traffickers live cushy lives. One prisoner ordered his meals from a menu, had prostitutes delivered to him, and managed his drug affairs with a cell phone while in prison.<\/li>\n<li>Many of those who are a part of the drug organizations are also members of the police. They conduct their business in their police uniforms \u2013 sometimes even openly killing people.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast, when (honest) officers make a drug bust, they make sure to cover their face before appearing in front of cameras to ensure that their families aren&#8217;t targeted. Thus the cops dress like thieves while the thieves dress like cops.<\/li>\n<li>Getting drugs into the United States is only half the battle. The other half is exporting the cash back out of it and into the pockets of the cartels.<\/li>\n<li>And there is a lot of cash. A kilo of drugs that is bought for $2,000 can retail for up to $100,000 in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how marriages are used to ensure loyalty, the Mexican cities where every cab-driver is on the payroll, where the cartels invest their money, and much, much more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/17\/magazine\/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=2&amp;\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/17\/magazine\/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=2&amp;\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little under a year ago Patrick Radden Keefe wrote an in depth piece about the operations of drug cartels. A few of the very many highlights include: Custom built submarines, FedEx, and air conditioned trolley tunnels are all ways that narcotics make their way into the United States. Some arrested drug traffickers demand a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050513_0744_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}