El Chito's Drug War In Mexico

Trust is an illusion, nothing more than a word, maybe even a trick to the drug dealing men of Mexico. The drug cartel leaders of Mexico's most infamous cartels can really only trust themselves. The drug world is a dog eat dog kind of world. Chapo had enlisted the help of El Chito to escape Puente Grande, as he drove the getaway car. “...Chapo told the guard he was thirsty. El Chito went into a shop to buy him a bottle of water. When he got back to the car Chapo was gone (pg 31).” Chapo knew the more anyone knew about his whereabouts upon his escape, the more likely he was to get caught. He simply abandoned the man who had helped him escape prison for fear that he could not trust him. Chapo was careful of who he told any crucual information
The goal, as discussed is the Last Narco, is to make money in the fastest way possible. Whenever these men come across a problem the first things that comes mind to fix the problem is money. Their motive or incentive for selling these drugs is the millions and billions they make. The greed overwhelms their lives, taking over their minds. Money is more than an object to them, it is a ticket to live. They pay anyone off who gets in their way. Money is the name of the game. Throughout the entire nivle Malcolm Beith talks about how they are constantly trying to think of new ways to transport more drugs so they can make more profit. Money was the name of the game, the corruption derived from the greed of the citizens of Mexico. Everyone began to want a piece of the wealth, and for small rural towns in Mexico that made huge difference in Sinaloa, where Chapo grew up they grew opium and could used that to create cocaine. This brought in huge amounts of money for these people that would otherwise be barely making it as regular farmers. The excitement of the new found money lead to only growing more and more, they wanted more and more money. Thousands, millions of dollars lie within the rural areas of Mexico where they grow enormous amounts of poppy; “22,000 acres of poppy - enough to produce eight tons of heroin…(pg 79).” The amount of money that lays within just a couple acres is mind blowing. With teh creation if more and more frames to produce more opium came more new inventive ways to transport the new heroin and cocaine. Carrillo Fuentes who became known as “Lord of the Skies” would haul up to twelve tons of cocaine in one plane trip to the United States. “The flight back to Mexico would carry the proceeds: up to $60 million in one trip.” The money was flowing in and he had to come up with ways to do this faster to get more money, transferring more drugs. He found planes that could exceed 500 nautical