Therefore, the motives of the person who contacted Rama were by no means pure.
And Rama himself is not ordinary. The Skrulls wouldn't know it unless they checked, and they were shocked when they checked. This guy actually controls two Mexican cartels behind the scenes!
The so-called cartel is actually an economic term at first. It is also called a monopoly interest group, a monopoly alliance, a business alliance, and an industry alliance. It is one of the forms of monopoly organizations. It produces or sells a certain product in order to monopolize the market and obtain high profits.
Monopolistic organizations and relationships formed by manufacturers of similar goods reaching agreements on commodity prices, output, and market share distribution.
But this term changes its flavor when it comes to Mexico. It represents drug lords, warlords, and terrorist organizations!
When talking about drugs, we can't help but think of a famous drug trafficking base - Mexico. Decades ago, Mexico has become a paradise for criminals. As the saying goes, "Too far from paradise, too close to the United States"
"The vast drug consumption market in the United States is the fundamental reason for the rampant drug gangs in Mexico. The Mexican government often needs to look at the faces of drug traffickers to survive. Even though these gangsters commit crimes and often leave people dead on the streets, the Mexican government has nothing to do with them.
The first Mexican drug traffickers were actually a group of middlemen who made money by helping South American drug lords transport drugs into the United States. Although drug traffickers in Mexico were also rampant at that time, to put it bluntly, they were just a group of second-tier traffickers. It is not only about the Colombian drug lords.
His face is such that he has to make regular contributions to the Mexican government! He belongs to the bottom role in this ecological chain.
But one thing is true: it is too far from heaven and too close to America.
With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico has received many low-end manufacturing jobs transferred from the United States. This has undoubtedly brought benefits to the Mexican economy, but the problem is that for another group of people, the signing of this agreement means that
The end is coming.
That is Mexican farmers. Compared with modern agriculture in the United States, the production process is highly mechanized, electrified, chemicalized and improved. Although Mexico is a large agricultural country, its agricultural level is not high, whether it is industrial model or agricultural technology.
They are still in a relatively traditional stage and cannot even achieve basic mechanization. If nothing else, the cost advantage of U.S. agricultural products alone is enough to beat Mexico. At that time, Mexico produced one ton of soybeans or corn.
The cost can often be more than three times that of the United States.
Therefore, after the establishment of the free trade zone, U.S. agricultural products began to pour into Mexico. With their output and price advantages, U.S. agricultural products easily occupied the Mexican market. As a result, local agricultural products in Mexico naturally lost their chance of survival.
Space. Since agricultural products could not be sold, Mexican farmers had no source of income. Therefore, Mexico's agricultural economy soon collapsed, and farmers became unemployed and bankrupt. These families who were not originally wealthy, therefore
To make matters worse, many people even have problems with food and clothing.
The collapse of Mexico's agricultural economy provided great convenience for the expansion of Mexico's drug industry. At that time, because farmers could not make money from farming, they chose to lie flat, so a large amount of land was abandoned.
But this has become a hotbed for the growth of Mexican drug lords.
Mexican drug lords took the opportunity to exploit these lands.
After all, how can a second-rate dealer go out on his own to make money?
It happened to be the peak period of the United States' anti-drug war in Colombia. Major drug lords in Colombia were arrested one after another. This caused the price of drugs to remain high in the United States. And with the signing of the free trade agreement, Mexico began to export drugs to the United States.
The cost and difficulty of transporting drugs side by side has been greatly reduced.
Although those second-rate dealers in Mexico do not understand economics, they are not stupid, so they cannot let this opportunity go. They offer high prices to guide farmers to switch to drug crops. They not only provide seeds and technology, but also promise to recycle them at high prices in the future. Even during the planting period, farmers
They still get wages. For unemployed Mexican farmers, this is undoubtedly a good deal. The harvest is guaranteed during droughts and floods, and the profit is guaranteed. Compared with the previous hard work of growing corn, it is undoubtedly a more "money-making path". So, in
Large areas of "plantations" have appeared in the Mexican countryside, and Mexico's drug industry is unprecedentedly prosperous.
Of course, Mexican farmers may know that these drug lords are not good people. But they have no choice but to make a living. Even between the government and drug lords, they will choose the latter and actively participate in
In the drug industry. In other words, they and the drug lords have become a community of interests, and both parties are tightly bound together. Both will suffer losses, and both will prosper. If the Mexican government wants to eradicate the drug lords, it will be equivalent to contacting the drug industry.
It has touched the interests of the vast peasant class. In this way, the government needs to face not just a few drug dealers, but the vast poor class in Mexico.
With such an advantage, the power and strength of drug lords began to expand unprecedentedly. In the past, Mexican drug lords still had to look at the government's situation, but now, those drug cartels have become warlords.
They control a large area of land, so they have territories and bases, and they have the support of many farmers, which provides a source of support for the people and a new force. With a market as vast as the United States providing them with funds, they are not even short of money!
There is money, people, and territory.
Why bother with the government?
Moreover, the Mexican government has accelerated this process, which is the famous Mexican anti-drug war!
This war was originally a measure taken by the then president to cover up electoral fraud and divert public attention from domestic partisan conflicts. This so-called war did have a lot of gains at the beginning.
But in a sense, these harvests are a survival of the fittest for Mexican drug lords. Those drug lords who cannot keep up with the situation and have insufficient means are eliminated. Who is left behind? Moreover, the war in Mexico itself started
There is no way to win, after all, the cause of the proliferation of drugs cannot be solved by killing a few drug lords!
In the vast rural areas of Mexico, growing marijuana and other drug raw materials is no different to growing fruit trees and corn for farmers. It is just that the income from marijuana and drug raw materials is higher. They don't think there is any problem with this. After all, if they don't grow it, they will
Have to starve to death!
And the cause of all this is poverty.
Without solving this fundamental problem, there will be no solution to the drug problem.
What's more, the Mexican government itself is full of shit. From the president to the grassroots, there are no officials who are not corrupt. The police are even more accomplices and subordinates of drug lords. The wages of police officers in many areas cannot support their families at all, and they all rely on drug lords to pay their wages... This
Under such circumstances, it would be a shame if drugs could be banned!
With this industry consolidation, Mexican drug cartels began to develop into a highly organized and armed state. They had a strict organizational structure. In order to protect their business and territory, they even directly paid government troops to work for them!
For example, the famous Los Zetas (Los Zetas), this organization was originally formed after the rebellion of thirty-four special forces in Mexico. These special forces were specially trained by the Mexican government for the Olympic Games that year, using the best weapons at the time.
equipment, and specially invited experts from the United States and other countries to train them. After the Olympics, this special force was used in the anti-drug war, but then they defected en masse with the latest equipment and became the Gulf Cartel (Mexico) at that time.
Mercenaries from the oldest cartel.
After that, he went out to work alone and established Los Zetas. This organization is completely a paramilitary organization, and its equipment is better than that of the regular army.
And Rama controls two such organizations!
When Nick heard that the cartel controlled by Rama transported dozens of tons of illegal drugs into the United States and other parts of the world every year, he suddenly took a breath of cold air. What's even more amazing is that their route has not had an accident so far!
This is not the way of an ordinary trafficker gang. For a cartel of this level, at least 10-20% of the goods should have accidents, be captured, or be hacked every year. This information will be integrated within the DEA and FBI, so that
Relevant departments have a general understanding of the scale and routes of illegal drug trade. However, this cartel actually managed to hide it from the public and secretly made profits of more than billions of dollars.
What's even more frightening is that there is no news from the DEA, FBI or CIA who likes to cooperate with drug traffickers. This is too weird.
In particular, it is even rarer that the person who controls two Mexican cartels is an extremely powerful reformer.
Because SHIELD doesn't know anything about it!
S.H.I.E.L.D. is an agency that handles superpower incidents. On the other hand, people from S.H.I.E.L.D. are also the most likely to come into contact with people with superpowers.
Using criminals to commit crimes is an extremely old-fashioned but efficient method, but it is generally a common method used by officials. The CIA is well aware of this.
"Have you found the person behind this guy?" Nick Fury felt like he had caught a big fish. This Rama controls two cartels that can generate billions of dollars in profits every year. He cannot be a gangster.
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Billions! This is not a small number. Nick Fury has been poaching S.H.I.E.L.D. for a long time. Of course he knows how much money this money is. After all, whether it is the Imperial Organization or the current Sword Bureau, he is the one poaching S.H.I.E.L.D.
It was just established. In order to obtain the required funds, Nick Fury knows how much effort he has put in. He also knows how much can be done with billions of dollars every year!
Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for those two cartels to hand over all their profits. After all, they were drug dealers, just for money. If all the money had been handed over, the people below would have rebelled long ago. They are drug dealers, not saints.
But even so, the benefits channeled through Rama every year are at least over one billion. The key is that no one knows this amount of money, let alone checks it!
"Yes, given the value of the target, we are already prepared to lure the snake out of the hole!" The Skrulls' old profession is to transform into the enemy's core class and disintegrate the enemy's resistance from within. They are the ancestors of the espionage industry.
Yes. They can naturally understand the importance of this gangster named Rama.
Nick Fury nodded.
If there is any benefit to being forced to become a traitor, it is that he can abandon his past rules of conduct.
He no longer needs to care about rules and regulations, and whether it is legal or not.
Although he didn't care much about these things in the past, since he is within the system and is still at the top of the system, no matter what, he needs to actively and passively maintain the system that the system relies on for its survival.
It's different now. He doesn't need any evidence. As long as there are clues, he will come to the door and use various means to get the information he wants.
There is absolutely no taboo in using that information to gain some benefits for yourself. In the past, he would do this, but after all, he was in the system, so even if he could do it, he could only do it secretly and on a small scale.
For example, Rama's operation this time gave him inspiration.
There are many warlord-like drug lord groups in South America and Mexico. He only needs to secretly control a few, and then the funds will continue to come in?
Nick Fury's biggest problem now is funding.
After being deemed a traitor by S.H.I.E.L.D., all of Nick Fury's black money methods were uprooted, which caused his funds to begin to be stretched thin. He can rely on force to control this group of Skrulls, but he cannot rely on force to control the Skrulls.
These Skrulls don't want to eat! The Skrulls are aliens, yes, but they are still carbon-based creatures and they also need to eat! If they are not given food, they will still rebel.
Moreover, the Imperial Organization is also a big consumer of funds.
Thinking about it this way, this is a really good thing!
Not only does it solve the financial problem, but it is also possible to catch the tail of the Hydra!
Kill two birds with one stone!
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In fact, the way the Skrulls fish is very simple, that is Rama himself.
When they captured Rama, they found man-made equipment from his eyes, and a monitoring program was found inside. Fortunately, the Skrulls were rigorous in their work and conducted electromagnetic interference during the capture, which was originally used to prevent alarm.
Rama's men didn't allow Rama to ask for help. In the end, they were beaten crookedly and they were not exposed.
However, despite this, at the moment of electromagnetic interference, the other party will know that there is a problem with Rama. Regardless of whether the problem is caused by Rama actively or passively, the people behind the scenes will not wait for others to investigate without any action.
In fact, it was pretty much what they guessed.
In a secret research room in the Special Administrative Region.
A man who is both unexpected and reasonable appears.
Garrett.
Alexander's right-hand man.
"How's Lamar doing?" Garrett asked.
The researcher in front of the computer quickly replied while operating the computer: "At eight twenty-seven, the signal encountered an electronic barrier and never recovered. Then we checked the surveillance cameras around him and found that Rama was at eight o'clock.
