Catching Up

This Washington Post piece about the indictment of a pair of twins in Chicago who bought their cocaine from Mexican gangs offers an interesting look at the relationship between American and Mexican drug traffickers. This quote gets at the truth of the issue, despite the government's periodic conflation of American gangs and their Mexican suppliers:

In Chicago, "you are only as good as your connection," said a former drug dealer who served 10 years in prison and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of security concerns. And the Flores brothers reportedly had the best connections in town.

It speculates that the Flores brothers were responsible for the intelligence that led to the death Arturo Beltrán Leyva. If that's true, the crowing on the part of the US government that it contributed to the search would seem ill-advised.