[Intro]
You need to know that before the cartels existed things worked differently in Mexico
The narcotics game was made of lone wolf traffickers
Mostly Sinaloans
Who purchased permission from the cops to run drugs in a particular city or territory
They called it the Plaza System
Here's how it worked:
Anyone looking to do business in the territory had to cut in the plaza boss
Pay him a piso, or a toll
And if they chose not to, trust me, the boss made his displeasure known
But here's the key:
Each plaza stood alone
Was its own world
Run by a certified asshole who'd done enough dirt to get crowned king of that particular piece of turf
The job tended to attract hard motherfuckers
So a scheme to convince a bunch of rival plazas
Led by trigger-happy sociopaths
To work together
Take direction from some other dirtbag?
Yeah, right