Methamphetanonymous
Bluelighter
I bring to you the least happy I told you so of my life's recent memoryThe cartels likely have no interest in this. Precursors and drugs are effectively all legal in Mexico. They have their own labs in Mexico to create precursors, and/or just get them from China. You can literally go to Mexico and buy a 55 gallon drum of acetic anhydride and nobody will ask any questions (but the DEA will certainly put you on a list).
The USA is the only cash cow they will ever need. They don't need new customers. I don't see why they would logically want to go international.
The cartels do not ally with anyone. They do their entire operation "in house", from precursors to final packaging. They don't need anyone else involved, they don't want anyone else involved.
Also, the cartels have never been involved in RC drugs. They only produce 5 drugs. Fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, and weed. That's it. That's all they make.
This is how the Cartel intends to make good on its vow to end fentanyl production on their home field. With no destination country reported this means a much bigger risk or cross contaminated meth with potentially lethal fentanyl doses in Canada, the US West Coast, or Australia.
The media leaves out the cartel's involvement but somehow they managed to get a militas worth of small arms, 50cal machine gun, over half a ton of crystal and a quarter ton of fetty. Cartel is either just selling the precursors or outsourcing lab supervisors like they do in Europe
I think they've simply got such a surplus in meth production that splitting some take home pay to have a few labs closer two two huge drug markets isn't a big risk factor for them