Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel

by Tom Wainwright

Crooks already know these tricks. Honest men must learn them in self-defense. —“HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS,” DARRELL HUFF

The number of people murdered in Mexico in 2010 would reach more than twenty thousand, or about five times the figure recorded across all of Western Europe.

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Penal reformers have long claimed that “prison doesn’t work.” This is only partly true: for drug cartels, prison works brilliantly.

It is a testament to the success of cartels in laundering their images that millions of consumers buy drugs each year without giving a moment’s thought to the fact that they are funding unimaginable suffering.