If your government refuses to stop the flow of drugs into the US by addressing cartels don't be surprised if the US delivers weapons to said cartels so they can have some infighting going on.
If the mexican government would actually make work of dismantling the organized trade, there would be no incentive to deliver them weapons to shoot each other.
That’s your understanding of why Intelligence backs/works with cartels?!
Oh honey. Black budgets. Cashflow, flow of power.
The “Mexican government” was headed by CIA assets multiple times in recent history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34903090
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/mexico-jose-lopez-portillo-decla...
What are you expecting Mexico to do, again?
Demand, markets are always driven by demand.