🇲🇽🇺🇸 How the Gulf Cartel "Taxes" the US Border
The crime mob taxes importers through control of the border cities and corrupt officials on its pay roll. As prices have been rising so have the quotas.
Last month, Mexico’s Reforma newspaper published a list of import shake downs that was alleged to be circulating in Matamoros. It lists 215 items, including everything from crates of cosmetics ($200) to horses ($300 a head) to jet skis (written as “yetsky”) for $400.
A Houston-based oil trader told CrashOut the cartel also charged quotas on tanker-trucks of refined gasoline. The rate has shot up sharply from $300 to $1,200 per tanker, he said. (Despite being an oil-producing country, Mexico imports tens of billions of dollars worth of refined gasoline every year).
The whopping level of trade translates to considerable earnings for the Gulf Cartel, or CDG, as it’s known. The cartel also reaps handsome profits from smuggling migrants north and from shaking down businesses large and small in its home state of Tamaulipas. And while it still moves dope, the corridor has become less important for narco trafficking itself perhaps because the cartel is making so much on its other rackets.
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