entire government is complicit with cartels top to bottom
all political parties are compromised, left or right wing doesn't matter, their goal is to keep the populace subservient so the ruling class can live comfortably while both cartels and police terrorize everyone else hand in hand
said cartels get infinity money and guns from drug trade in the US since their healthcare system doesn't give a shit and gets their population addicted to opiods from overprescription
criminal activity completely normalized at a societal level, there is a widespread belief that if you don't partake in corruption you will not get anywhere in life (also tons of nepotism)
art and media glorifies organized crime as romantic and a desirable lifestyle
There's a point where people realize that your only options to avoid starving are to become a criminal or move somewhere else (legally or illegally), how do you even go about fixing a country like this?