Mexico Cartel's Fiery Tactics: Psychological Warfare or Photo Op?
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Is there any indication that, of course, tourism is a very big industry for Mexico, really critical. Is there an indication that the cartel, and I think this is the Jalisco New Generation cartel, I believe it is, uh that they're that they're trying to make this very visible sort of an exaggerated visibility of fires like I've seen footage of them setting gas stations on fire. You know, strategically that doesn't do much, but psychologically it does a lot. Is there, are you seeing things like that? It certainly feels like that. And, you know, you're right. When you're when you're setting up gas stations on fire, that's more so to make make cause the scene internationally. And I've seen things like that before, you know, in uh at the G20 in Toronto, I made a documentary film about that back in 2010, for example, where it was police agent provocateurs who were set up, putting putting the police cars in the situation, lighting them on fire as a photo op for the media to be able to paint the picture and look, look how bad the situation is. We need to go in, we need to shut it ...