Chapter 1103: An Unexpected Success (First Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Give Me a Recommendation Ticket!!!)

Therefore, the motive of the person who contacted Rama was definitely not pure. Google search reading

And Rama himself was not ordinary. The Skrulls didn't know it until they checked it out, and they were shocked. This guy actually controlled two Mexican cartels behind the scenes!

The so-called cartel was actually an economic term at the beginning, also known as a monopoly interest group, a monopoly alliance, a corporate alliance, and a trade alliance. It is one of the forms of monopoly organizations. In order to monopolize the market and obtain high profits, manufacturers who produce or sell a certain kind of goods reach an agreement on commodity prices, output and market share distribution to form a monopoly organization and relationship.

But this term has changed its meaning in Mexico. It represents drug lords, warlords, and terrorist organizations!

When it comes to drugs, we always can't help but think of a famous drug trafficking base-Mexico. Decades ago, Mexico had already become a paradise for criminals. As the saying goes, "too far from heaven, too close to the United States", the vast drug consumption market in the United States is the root cause of the rampant Mexican drug cartels. The Mexican government often has to look at the faces of drug dealers to get by. Even though these gangsters commit crimes and often leave people dead on the streets, the Mexican government has no way to deal with them.

The earliest Mexican drug dealers were actually a group of middlemen who made money by helping South American drug lords to transport drugs into the United States. Although Mexican drug dealers were also rampant at that time, they were just a group of second-hand dealers. They not only had to look at the faces of Colombian drug lords, but also had to regularly supply the Mexican government! They belong to the bottom role in this ecological chain.

But there is a saying that is not wrong, that is, too far from heaven and too close to the United States.

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico has obtained many low-end manufacturing jobs transferred from the United States, which undoubtedly brought benefits to the Mexican economy, but the problem is that for another group of people, the signing of this agreement means the arrival of doomsday.

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 big agricultural country, its agricultural level is not high. Both the industrial model and agricultural technology are still in a relatively traditional stage, and even basic mechanization cannot be achieved. Apart from other things, the cost advantage of American agricultural products alone is enough to beat Mexico. At that time, the cost of producing one ton of soybeans or corn in Mexico was often more than three times that of the United States.

So, after the establishment of the free trade zone, American agricultural products began to pour into Mexico. And with the advantages of output and price, American agricultural products easily occupied the Mexican market. In this way, local agricultural products in Mexico naturally lost their living space. Since agricultural products could not be sold, Mexican farmers had no source of income. Therefore, Mexico's agricultural economy soon collapsed, and farmers lost their jobs and went bankrupt. These families, who were not rich to begin with, were made worse by this, and many people even had 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 farming did not make money, farmers chose to lie down, so a large amount of land was abandoned.

But this became a hotbed for the growth of Mexican drug lords.

The drug lords in Mexico took the opportunity to use these lands.

After all, how can the middlemen make money by themselves?

It just so happened that the United States was at the peak of its war on drugs in Colombia at that time, and the big 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, the cost and difficulty of transporting drugs from Mexico to the United States have been greatly reduced.

Although the middlemen in Mexico do not understand economics, they are not stupid, and naturally they will not let go of this opportunity. They offer high prices to guide farmers to switch to drug crops, not only providing seeds and technology, but also promising to recycle them at a high price in the future. Even during the planting period, farmers can get wages. For unemployed Mexican farmers, this is undoubtedly a good deal, with guaranteed income regardless of drought or flood, and guaranteed profits. Compared with the previous hard work of growing corn, it is undoubtedly more "money-making". As a result, large tracts of "plantations" appeared in the countryside of Mexico, and the drug industry in Mexico was unprecedentedly prosperous.

Of course, Mexican farmers may know that these drug lords are not good people. But there is no way. For the sake of life, they can only choose this way. Even between the government and the drug lords, they will choose the latter and actively participate in the drug industry. In other words, they and the drug lords have become a community of interests, and the two sides are tightly bound together. If one suffers, all suffer, and if one prospers, all prosper. If the Mexican government wants to eradicate the drug lords, it is equivalent to touching the interests of the vast peasant class. In this way, the government needs to face not only a few drug dealers, but the vast poor class in Mexico.

With such advantages, the power and strength of the drug lords began to expand unprecedentedly. In the past, Mexican drug lords still needed to look at the government's face situation, but now, those drug cartels have become warlords.

They control large tracts of land, so they have turf and bases, and with the support of many farmers, they have a source of popular support and fresh forces. With such a vast market as the United States to provide them with funds, they are not even short of money!

Moreover, the Mexican government has accelerated this process, which is the famous Mexican war on drugs!

This war was originally a measure taken by the then president to cover up election fraud and to divert public attention and domestic party conflicts. This so-called war did have a lot of gains at the beginning.

But these gains are, in a sense, a survival of the fittest for Mexican drug lords. Those drug lords who can't keep up with the situation and have insufficient means are eliminated. What kind of people are left? Moreover, Mexico's war itself cannot be won at the beginning. After all, the cause of the drug flood is not something that can be solved by killing a few drug lords!

In the vast rural areas of Mexico, planting marijuana and other drug raw materials is no different from planting fruit trees and corn for farmers, except that marijuana and drug raw materials have higher incomes. They don't think there is any problem at all. After all, if they don't plant this, they will starve to death!

And the cause of all this is poverty.

Without solving this fundamental problem, there is no solution to the drug problem.

What's more, the Mexican government itself is full of shit. From the president to the grassroots, there is no official who is not corrupt. The police are the accomplices and subordinates of the drug lords. The wages of the police in many areas cannot support their families at all. They rely on the drug lords to pay their wages... In this case, it's a miracle to be able to ban drugs!

With this industry integration, the Mexican drug cartels began to develop towards a highly organized and armed state. They have a strict organizational structure. In order to protect their business and territory, they even directly paid the government army to work for them!

For example, the famous Los Zetas, this organization was originally formed by the rebellion of 34 Mexican special forces. These special forces were specially trained by the Mexican government for the Olympics that year. They used the best equipment at the time and specially invited experts from the United States and other countries to train them. After the Olympics, this special force was used in the war on drugs, but then they defected with the latest equipment and became mercenaries of the Gulf Cartel (the oldest cartel group in Mexico).

Then they went out to work alone and established Los Zetas. This organization is 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 banned drugs into the United States and all over the world every year, he took a deep breath. What's more amazing is that there has been no accident on their route so far!

This is not the way of ordinary traffickers. Cartels of this level should have at least 10-20% of their goods have accidents every year, or be captured, or be eaten by the black. These news will be integrated within the DEA and the FBI, so that the relevant departments can have a general understanding of the scale and route of the illegal drug transactions. But this cartel actually concealed the truth and quietly made a profit of more than billions of US dollars.

What's more terrifying is that no matter the DEA, the FBI or the CIA, which likes to cooperate with drug dealers, there is no news, which is too weird.

Especially the person who controls the two Mexican cartels is a very powerful cyborg, which is even more rare.

Because SHIELD knows nothing about it!

SHIELD is the agency that handles superpower incidents. On the other hand, people in SHIELD are most likely to come into contact with superpowers.

Using criminals to commit crimes is an extremely old-fashioned but efficient method, but this 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 that he seemed to have caught a big fish. This Rama controls two cartels that can generate billions of dollars in profits every year. It is impossible for him to be a minion.

Billions! This is not a small number. Nick Fury has been digging for SHIELD for a long time, so of course he knows how much money this is. After all, whether it is the Monarch Organization or the current S.W.O.R.D., he dug for SHIELD. In order to get the required funds, Nick Fury himself 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 knows that the two cartels cannot hand over all their profits. After all, they are drug dealers, just for money. If all the money is handed over, the people below would have rebelled long ago. They are drug dealers, not saints. But even so, the benefits transferred through Rama every year are at least more than 10 billion. The key is that no one knows about this money, let alone check it!

"Yes, given the value of the target, we are ready to lure the snake out of the hole!" The Skrulls' old business is to transform and sneak into the core class of the enemy, disintegrate the enemy's resistance from the inside, and they are considered the ancestors of the spy industry. They naturally understand the importance of this gangster named Rama.

Nick Fury nodded.

If there is any benefit in being forced to become a traitor, it is that he can abandon the previous code of conduct.

He no longer needs to care about rules and regulations, and no longer needs to be legal or not.

Although he didn't care about these things before, since he was in the system and was still a senior official in the system, he needed to actively and passively maintain the system on which the system depended for survival.

It's different now. He doesn't need any evidence. As long as there is a clue, he will come to the door, and then use various means to get the information he wants.

By the way, using that information to gain some benefits for himself, it's even more taboo. In the past, he would do so, but after all, he was in the system, so even if he did 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-style drug lord groups in South America and Mexico. He only needs to secretly control a few of them, and the funds will come in continuously?

Now Nick Fury's biggest problem is the problem of funds.

After being identified as a traitor by S.H.I.E.L.D., all the means Nick Fury used to embezzle money were uprooted, which caused his funds to be stretched. He can rely on force to control this group of Skrulls, but he can't rely on force to make these Skrulls starve! It's true that the Skrulls are aliens, but they are still carbon-based creatures and need to eat! If they don't eat, they will rebel.

And the Monarch Organization is also a big spender of funds.

Think about it this way, this is a great thing!

Not only does it solve the problem of funds, it is also possible to catch the tail of 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 a man-made device in his eyes, and found a monitoring program in it. Fortunately, the Skrulls were rigorous in their work and conducted electromagnetic interference when they were capturing him. It was originally used to prevent Rama's men from being alarmed and prevent Rama from asking for help. As a result, they were not exposed.

However, despite this, the other party would know that Rama had a problem at the moment of electromagnetic interference. Whether this problem was caused by Rama actively or passively, the people behind the scenes would not wait for others to investigate without taking any action.

In fact, it was similar to what they guessed.

In a secret laboratory in the special zone.

A person who was both unexpected and reasonable appeared.

Garrett.

Alexander's right-hand man.

"How is Rama?" Garrett asked.

The researcher in front of the computer quickly answered while operating the computer: "At 8:27, the signal encountered an electronic barrier and never recovered. Then we checked the surveillance around him and found that Rama left the bar alone at 8:45."