First and foremost, the US generates the huge demand for illicit drugs that sustains the entire Latin American mafia, just as the US experiment with alcohol prohibition in the 1920’s fueled the rise of gangsters like Al Capone. No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels’ annual profits, but they certainly amount to billions of dollars.
墨西哥领导人承认国内存在问题，但把其中三大问题推到了美国门口。首先也是最重要的是，是美国创造了整个拉丁美洲黑社会赖以生存的巨大毒品需求，正如美国20世纪20年代的禁酒令实验催生了艾尔·卡彭（Al Capone）这样的黑帮大佬。没人知道墨西哥毒枭的准确年利润数字，但肯定以十亿美元计。