King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 382 - 367: The Professional Difference

Joe Ga took the Gulf Cartel quite seriously, as this group could have been as big as ’Goge Wu’ level organization if it weren’t for having the United States as a troublesome neighbor.

But the Gulf Cartel isn’t doing badly now; they are Mexico’s super drug trafficking organization, second only to the Sinaloa Group.

The biggest difference between them is that the Sinaloa Group controls most of Mexico’s land routes, while the Gulf Cartel dominates the sea routes.

The Gulf Cartel basically has control over Southern California.

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Monica’s screw-ups dragged the Gulf Cartel down into trouble. It’s quite normal for her stepson, who is 15 years her senior, to want to kill her, and arranging someone to watch her on the sea isn’t surprising at all.

Actually, in Joe Ga’s mind, it was a bit odd that the Gulf Cartel hadn’t arranged mercenaries to bomb the area with RPGs.

If Monica was targeted by the Gulf Cartel and didn’t have a big shot protecting her, it was inevitable that she would be chopped up. Hiding anywhere would be useless.

In fact, if Monica had offended a violent drug trafficking group like Seta or Jalisco, instead of the Gulf Cartel that treated drug trafficking like a business, Los Angeles probably would have already turned into a war zone by now.

This is no joke—Jalisco had once arranged for underlings to cross the border and attack a police station in Texas, firing nearly 5,000 bullets in a small town and scaring the local police and citizens to the point of peeing in fear.

An influential chubby internet celebrity thought he was safe in America, so he posted taunts at Cervantes.

As a result, his real-time location was tracked through social media, and within less than an hour, a group of gunmen had stormed the nightclub he was in. The random shooting turned him into a hornet’s nest while also sparking a series of shootings that caused heavy casualties among those who had fawned over the chubby guy.

That happened in the American mainland, showing just how crazy Seta and Jalisco, the two violent gangs, were.

The reason the United States doesn’t blow them up with missiles is that the drug trade volume of these two big gangs actually isn’t large, as they were choked by the Sinaloa Group.

And the best way for the United States to stop Sinaloa from monopolizing the market and becoming too powerful is to let violent groups like Seta and Jalisco grow because they will inevitably clash with Sinaloa.

And in fact, this conflict has been underway for some time now.

The funniest part is, at the first sign of conflict, the Sinaloa Group chose to ’call the police’ and let them deal with the two violent groups.

The even funnier outcome was, the police didn’t manage to beat them...

But this does highlight the influence of Harlotte because Monica was useful to him, so after he made a call, he could leverage the power of the Sinaloa Group to keep the Gulf Cartel in check and prevent them from causing trouble.

Plus, Frester didn’t hold back at all when he was setting up traps for Seta and Jalisco.

Probably, neither of the two gangs has figured out what’s happened, having lost several groups of underlings each already.

This is the most typical image of violent organizations; everyone fears them, but actually, they are very ’fragile’.

Because ordinary people fear them, the government hates them, and even drug traffickers want them dead.

Many people’s impression of Mexican drug cartels still centers on violence.

But those who have actually looked into their files know that the Sinaloa Group is basically Mexico’s shadow government, as they control the livelihoods of tens of millions of farmers.

The drug war in Mexico still hasn’t ended because they are attacking their own farmers.

Actually, if Mexico weren’t so close to America, Joe Ga believes it would have descended into civil war by now, and the government forces definitely wouldn’t be able to beat the drug traffickers’ army.

The Sinaloa Group is said to have an army of 2 million strong, and this isn’t a joke.

Although most of them are armed farmers, can you say they are any worse than those in Africa or even the Middle East?

The major drug cartels have been waging a ’new Opium War’ against America, bringing it to its knees with an incalculable amount of marijuana.

The massive outflow of cash and the loss of tax revenue has led the pragmatic Americans to simply give in, saying, "If I can’t stop you, I’ll join you. Let’s legalize marijuana; you all have to pay taxes to me."

California took the lead in legalizing marijuana.

Once the marijuana trade is legalized, the government then has plenty of administrative means to control and regulate the flow of marijuana money.

Joe Ga once saw an internal DEA video where the Sinaloa Group didn’t count cash by hand but loaded it onto 16-wheeled trucks and lined up to weigh it.

What does that imply?

At the gang leaders’ annual meeting, the talk about KPIs was about how many trucks of cash they contributed that year.

The ’King of the Skies’ of the Juarez Group, Amarez, who trafficked drugs by plane, was blown up with myths of swapping a plane of drugs for a plane of cash. But compared to the Sinaloa Group, the ’King of the Skies’ was just a little brother.

In Mexico, it’s rare to find a top official who doesn’t take drug trafficker money.

To some extent, Joe Ga follows a similar path to that of the drug cartels.

It’s just that he has pried into a steel industry chain, while the Mexican drug cartels control a super drug trafficking chain that encompasses cultivation, processing, and sales.

If it weren’t for the United States’ active support, Joe Ga wouldn’t be surprised if Mexico’s president was elected by drug traffickers.

In fact, even if Mexico’s president was installed by the United States, the government systems in various states were indirectly condoning the drug trade, because without this illicit trade, the local farmers would starve to death.

Apart from the farmer class, life for others in Mexico wasn’t too bad.

In the upscale communities, where song and dance abounded and security was good, people belonging to the middle class and above lived lives no worse than Americans; in fact, due to tax issues, their disposable incomes were even higher.

With the Gulf of Mexico at its back, possessing massive reserves of oil, and occupying the key transit route between Central and South America and North America, Mexico is also a developed country. They worshipped and learned from the American way, ignoring their own industrial level and the interests of their own farmers, and they led themselves to their demise.

There was a time when Mexico was a thriving nation, but the early discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico caused Mexico to halt its process of industrialization, believing they had found the key to riches.

For the sake of elections, a government eager for quick success and instant benefits began recklessly handing out welfare to collect votes, and then the North American Free Trade Agreement stripped them bare, leaving most farmers without a livelihood. It was from that time Mexico began to slowly slide into the abyss.

When industrialization and urbanization stagnated, and if farmers lost their livelihood, then the country couldn’t be well off.

If Joe Ga were to rank the worst governments he had encountered, Mexico, which had squandered a good hand, would definitely be on the list, with Venezuela closely following.

Those in Africa who made the best of a bad situation would have to take a step back because they simply didn’t have much room left to sink.

And now, due to ’Kitten,’ Joe Ga needed to protect Monica, and that had offended the Gulf Cartel.

Then he had to go after the Sinaloa Group’s money vault; if it weren’t for the fact that he was currently under the cover of the DEA, he might have had to reconsider.

Joe Ga wasn’t afraid of the two cartels, he could always just go back to Central Africa. No matter how powerful drug cartels were, they couldn’t mobilize peasants to go to war with him, and hiring a few mercenaries would be like delivering food to him.

However, Joe Ga had to consider the people at his American branch company. If he offended both cartels to death, how could he continue business with the Justice Department in the future?

The retired old-timers who were planning to be hired to execute the ’Witness Protection Program’ couldn’t beat fully-armed drug traffickers; using mercenaries would mean a business loss.

For these reasons, Joe Ga, with his temperament, would have normally found a boat to detain the suspicious yacht.

But now, he had chosen to let Estelle notify the Coast Guard, using the name of a local big shot to call the police and have them inspect and drive away the yacht.

Seeing their ’irascible’ boss actually chose to call the police instead of rushing in to viciously dismantle the spying individuals, Tony finally heaved a sigh of relief... Stay tuned to novelbuddy

Thank goodness, thank goodness, the boss isn’t mad!

Yet thinking about the Sinaloa money vault, Tony still felt uneasy as he looked at Joe Ga and said, "Boss, we’ve used city surveillance cameras to compile the arrival and departure of vehicles at the Pasadena Warehouse over the past three days, and we’ve established a temporary database.

In a few more hours, we’ll be able to roughly estimate the number of people inside.

But are we really going to go to war with the Sinaloa Group?"

Joe Ga was pleased with the initiative Tony had shown, and he smiled and said, "How can it be P·B going to war with Sinaloa? This is a DEA operation, and there’s FBI cooperation. P·B is just manpower; we know nothing."

Tony nodded in enlightenment, then excitedly said, "Sir, if that’s the case, may we make use of the FBI’s criminal database?

The resolution of Pasadena’s city cameras is average, but we can use software to restore the faces captured.

With the support of the FBI’s criminal database, we can provide accurate target intelligence, get their mobile numbers for precise surveillance, and gather first-hand operation intelligence."

As Tony, the rookie, saw Joe Ga apparently pleased, he said a bit excitedly, "We can also determine high-value targets based on intelligence—FBI and DEA would surely be more interested in living targets..."

Watching Tony’s endless application of the intelligence operation content he had learned at the academy—all seemingly tailor-made for drug traffickers and eager to show off his skills...

This was the first time Joe Ga witnessed the operational mode of intelligence personnel, and while he had no other thoughts, one word sprang to mind: ’professional.’

Joe Ga couldn’t understand many of the professional terms, and a lot of Tony’s ’fantasies’ seemed superfluous to him. Yet, this didn’t prevent Joe Ga from recognizing the targetedness and professionalism of the technical intelligence training these young people had received.

If intelligence officer ’Pigeon’ Thompson had some of the old-school spy vibe, then these young people, though inexperienced, represented true technologists.

Joe Ga didn’t understand the extent of their technical strength, but by the fact that many words they said were unfamiliar to him, these people, given enough equipment support in Africa, would be absolutely overpowering to the local warlords.

With ’Pigeon’ Thompson as the leader and these young people filling the structure, Joe Ga didn’t believe they couldn’t create a formidable surveillance network.

As a test, and also to give Tony a sense of security, Joe Ga hesitated and then said with a smile, "Here’s what, I’ll give you three days to conduct electronic surveillance on the Sinaloa Warehouse in Pasadena.

The number of people, their identities, their importance—you figure it out. If you need personnel assistance, you can ask ’Vanguard’ to help you...

Three days from now, I need a detailed attack plan.

Buddy, apply everything you’ve learned and show me what you can do.

Remember, we are now the DEA, and we have not only ourselves but also more forces at our disposal."