The spectral DoJ report that I've recently mentioned keeps feeding articles in Mexican papers: today, Excélsior offers a report on how Chicago is the center of Chapo Guzmán's American distribution network, with a set of twins in charge of distribution.
The twins are American, which seems to mitigate the scariness of the concept of Chapo Guzmán operating in the US. In the vast majority of cases where they talk about Mexican gangs operating in the US, it turns out to be a situation like this, with American crooks distributing drugs purchased from Mexican suppliers. I don't really see this as frightening; given that the US cocaine habit is longstanding and since the drug isn't homegrown, it has to come from a foreign supplier. Unless we start seeing the wholesale corruption of entire police departments and the regular use of assassination of public officials as a business tactic, I don't see how it makes a great deal of difference whether drugs sold in the US are purchased from Chapo Guzmán or his Colombian, Dominican, Haitian, or Mexican competitors.
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