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    Wall Street Journal

    Mexico’s drug cartels are in a war for the hearts and minds of poor Mexicans, providing them with food and supplies as they struggle to survive the economic meltdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

    Since the coronavirus struck Mexico, a plethora of videos and photographs uploaded to social media have shown what appear to be cartel operatives in about a dozen states handing out food packages marked with the logos of the different criminal groups to lines of Mexicans. In some cases the videos show the food being distributed by heavily armed men, driving in military-style trucks with cartel markings.

    Drug traffickers-turned-philanthropis... are just the latest challenge posed by powerful organized crime groups to Mexico’s government and the rule of law. Already, cartels and criminal gangs extort businesses large and small throughout the country, creating an informal parallel tax system and discouraging local and foreign investment.

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    • interestingly this pic has gone viral saying "daughter of el chapo distributing aid" ...the identity of the woman pictured is not actually known.sarahfailin
    • the daughter is giving the aid to the girl in maskzaq
    • the daughter is taking the box from the woman on the groundKrassy
    • FILE PHOTO: An employee of the clothing brand "El Chapo 701,"
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    • wned by Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman, daughter of the convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman,
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    • hands out a box with food, face masks and hand sanitizers to an elderly woman
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    • as part of a campaign to help cash-strapped elderly people during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak,
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    • in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16, 2020. REUTERS/Fernando Carranza
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    • ^huh. wonder why WSJ didn't include that info in the photo citation.sarahfailin
    • During the crisis in Greece, the nazi fuck-heads - golden dawn - did the same kind of thing. The mafia in Italy, tooGnash
    • @sarahfailin because WSJ has different deal with reuters photouan
    • MX gov isn't doing anything to help besides locking everyone down, theres no "work from home" in Mexico. regardless of the cartels motives the people need toeatmoldero
    • if lock down lasts another 2 months down here, people will have no choice but to start raiding other peoples homes for foodmoldero
    • Grocery stores not an option?monospaced
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