Almost all of them were armed to the teeth, so the government and police simply could not do anything to them.
Not only that, but the crime syndicates in Mexico had also kidnapped and assassinated countless politicians in the country, and they had long infiltrated the military and political system so that the criminal syndicates were at the top of the food chain in Mexico.
The criminal syndicate did not take their country’s army or police nor even the police in the United States and Canada as