Here’s VICE blogger Brian Anderson on the revelation that the DEA and Sinaloa Cartel had a cozy symbiotic relationship:
Still, it all goes to confirm long-held suspicions that the Sinaloa—and more notably Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the cartel’s elusive kingpin—and American authorities have been playing Let’s Make a Drug Deal for years. In a shadowy world of high-tech highs, smuggle craft, and charred and beheaded corpses, this whole mess marks a new and tragic low.