Mexico in doz anos

Today Mexico is a Narco state, but when looking closely it is a chaotic system of pockets that interact and overlap. The Kartells will have farms as their own or enslaved, they have housing areas under their control occupied by recruits and staff or paying tribute, they will have shopping and industrial areas in the same way and they all like to party in save places where they can loos it. 

The Nation is next to those areas, right in between in the very same way.

Some live in the shadows and according to news reports they took their first grounds successfully creating new ghettos that have to deal with both parties.

A few will stride and possibly even trade in between these three parties using the fact that we humans naturally communicate and trade with each other. 

Where to go from here?

The first three have in common that they use hierarchies that are quite clear at least for those in the inside. The striders are not organised and appear to be the weakest link, because they are small in number overall and in their individual groups. That - they balance by more flexibility and mobility using contracts and favors based on better information from different sources and perspectives, yet having the most dangerous of all lifes and positions.

From the top Mexico is chaos and most only show either maps of Kartell territory or borders drawn by the nation like those of towns or counties, hardly any show in which areas new ghettos stripped of Kartell surpression and possibly even national influence from the central government that left them alone for too long even so most likely without bad intention but due to bigger fires burning elsewhere. 

The Kartells only were able to gain ground because they well understood the national hierarchy and were able to infiltrate, abuse and kill those structures to establish their own rule. National systems are competitive and if they turn from healthy competition based on fair grounds towards conflict driven rivalry based on greed officers of the state will find themselves with a quite illegal bank account, a mistress and a serious pouder addiction in a deep hole that is way more serious than a problem. It is the dark side, mate.  

It appears that the overall chaos in Mexico turns disadvantage against the Kartells that split up more and more and keep fighting each other way more than anyone from the outside ever. 

Chaos is a system you don't understand and I kept telling that my parents every time I was supposed to clean up. There is a simpel test: What do you want me to find for you here? The teddy you got from aunty? One Sec. Right below the T-Shirt I will put to the laundry and next to the mix tape I made for Maria, right here. Another one...?

Good parents trust their children like a good government trusts its people....

Welcome to the cyberpunk jungle....

To spread that system some call chaos