Chapter 78: The Storm in Texas
Mexico, the Texas section of the US-Mexico border. Under the cover of the moonlight at night, dozens of Mexicans are rushing towards the barbed wire fence at the junction of the two countries, dragging their families and carrying their bags, large and small. A young man rushed to the front and cut the barbed wire on the border with a vise. Then everyone scrambled to get in from here.
This scene happened almost every day on the more than 3,000-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border. Some people rushed over, some were deported, and some died at the gunpoint of the border patrol. Mexico, too far from God, too close to America. Those Mexicans who have rummaged through the border hoping to live a happy life in the future don't know that when they arrive in the United States, happiness is still out of reach.
After Seryozha gave the Medellin Group a special gift, it didn’t take long for these Mexicans on the U.S.-Mexico border to almost all know a new opportunity to make money, which is to go to the U.S. to help Mexican gangs engaged in drug trafficking activities.
The shield machine sent by Seryozha is so easy to use. In less than a month, two spacious underground passages were dug under the US-Mexico border. Through these two passages, smuggled from Colombia to Mexico drugs can be safely sent to the United States. After these Mexican drug dealers tasted the sweetness, they ordered more shield machines from the Soviet Union.
After having the submarine and the underground passage, Escobar's transportation passage became much smoother in an instant. The cost of transporting the cocaine he produces to the United States has been reduced a lot. Even Colombia's neighbors, Bolivar and Peru, have boosted sales of coca leaves. The purchase price of raw coca in Gran Colombia began to rise, while the price of cocaine in the United States began to fall. Although this is a good thing for producers and consumers, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration understands the underlying reason for this, that is, more cocaine is flowing into the U.S. market.
Although the retail price of cocaine in the United States has only dropped by a few dollars, the chain reaction brought about by these few dollars has caused great harm to the entire country. A few dollars less means a lower threshold for trying. Many teenagers who are shy but full of curiosity may have taken the first step, and the big drug lords will not lose anything in the process of reducing prices. With a big increase, they will make more money instead. As long as the drug lords who have made money give a little incentive to the farmers who make a living from it, more people will grow coca.
The Texas Branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has already felt the severity of the situation. Although they increased the intensity of the attack, but with little effect. This change came so suddenly, as if overnight, there was no shortage of cocaine throughout Texas, and the supply began to open up. The DEA is under unprecedented pressure from the top. From the perspective of the U.S. government, drug control is not just for public health, but because of the proliferation of drugs, the U.S. spends nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars abroad every year, as well as a considerable amount of public health expenditure. Fiscal revenue is what the US government values. There is also no lack of support for the legalization of drug sales in Congress. Their views are similar to those of the National Rifle Association, that is, people kill people, not drugs.
Members of Congress are all elected.
In states where drugs are already rampant, a political attitude that is tolerant of drugs can get more votes. So it is not surprising that there are such voices in Congress. Democratic electoral systems also have their own dark side.
The surge in drug sales forced the DEA to take several large-scale operations to salvage the situation. In order to find out the truth, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided the Mexican community under the guidance of informants. After a fierce battle, both sides suffered casualties. The DEA seized tons of cocaine and a room full of Mexican pesos and dollars, as well as the bodies of several unknown little people. They thought that even though the drug dealers ran away, they would stop for a while. Unexpectedly, the Mexicans still flocked to bulk goods on the street the next day. The actions of the Drug Enforcement Administration did not hurt his bones at all, and the drug dealers were still alive and well.
After this battle, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration finally understood that the Mexicans must have a safe transportation channel that can avoid the sight of US law enforcement agencies. After understanding this, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration began to focus on discovering the drug trafficking routes of Mexican drug dealers.
The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration brought in statisticians from Washington to start counting changes in the price and sales of cocaine in the market to narrow down the scope of the search. After more than a month of investigation, the statisticians found a new clue that prices always start in Texas and Florida.
"Why do the prices in these two states start to change first? It makes sense that Texas borders Mexico, but what about Florida? It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and neither borders Texas nor Mexico..."
Investigators of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration would never have thought that Florida would be one of the passages for cocaine to enter the country. Before that, they had always thought that the drug was circulated through Texas.
"How about our sources in Mexico, do they have any news?"
"Sorry, boss, we have no information on this!"
"That's really strange. The amount of drugs intercepted by our customs has not increased? According to common sense, even if there are omissions in our security checks, as the circulation of drugs increases, the amount we seized should also increase. These How the hell did the cocaine get in?"
Experts from the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration were puzzled. Just then, a phone call came directly into the conference room.
Someone pressed the speakerphone on the phone, and soon the voice of the investigation team ahead came from the other side of the phone: "Boss, have you read the newspaper in Mexico this morning? Under the bridge, there are more than a dozen corpses hanging below. I just talked to the Mexican police on the phone. There were no Americans among the victims, but the identities of these people are a bit different. It is said that they are all tunnel engineers from Mexico City. I wondered if the deaths of these people had something to do with the drugs in Texas. I asked the Mexican police, and they told me that these people had been missing for several months, but it was the market in these few months. Is there such a coincidence in the world?"
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