Borderland Beat: Video from Vice
An excellent video from Vice. "Cocaine & Crude", is about cartel diversification from drug trafficking into oil theft. It begins in Tamaulipas, most of Mexico's extensive oil reserves are off the coast of Tamaulipas, the state is the historical center for the country's petroleum industry beginning more than 100 years ago.
With the state being rich in oil reserves, combined with lucrative drug corridors, add in corruption being the norm, it is little wonder organized crime violence is an untamed beast.
Zetas are the only cartel that began with a business structure of 50% diversification; knocks offs, extortion, kidnapping, sex trade, versus drug trafficking. Oil alone, could surpass drugs in the future as most profitable portion of Zetas activities.
With the state being rich in oil reserves, combined with lucrative drug corridors, add in corruption being the norm, it is little wonder organized crime violence is an untamed beast.
Zetas are the only cartel that began with a business structure of 50% diversification; knocks offs, extortion, kidnapping, sex trade, versus drug trafficking. Oil alone, could surpass drugs in the future as most profitable portion of Zetas activities.
The reporter takes an amazing excursion to a Pemex site, with begins with soldiers listening to narcos radio communications. They are traveling to a site where an illegal tap was installed the night before.
