“How else can you explain how individuals running the cartels with almost no education can outpace the US and Mexican intelligence agencies, the Mexican Army and Mexican law enforcement at all levels? There is only one explanation – corruption,” says Anabel Hernandez, author of The Drug Lords.
Also, as an FBI agent said about Vegas mobsters in the 1950’s, they aren’t smarter, it’s that they’ll do things the rest of us won’t.