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“For them, the violence was the point. So, the first thing they did when they moved into a new city after getting rid of the other cartels is they'd kill the police chief in his office. They'd go after the church. They'd go after anyone who they thought might look at them weird, sometimes just cuz. Their idea is they wanted everyone to be so terrified of them that they would never even considering standing against them. It's very different from the bribe and hearts and mind strategy that El Chapo followed.”
“With him gone, that pressure cooker is now going to explode. And it's only going to be a matter of probably days before his lieutenants and the people who run these some of these regional operations start to try to grab that piece of the operation for themselves like we've seen with Siloa, but with a much much much higher tolerance for violence.”