Of course our government is cooperating with the narcos. It has to be. Since the Eisenhower era our military has had the capacity to read a licence plate number from a satellite in orbit. How could they be missing the veritable parade of planes, boats, trucks and "mules" bringing in tons of blow, smack, and grass every day?
I lived on the edge of a "ghetto" neighborhood for a few years and I remember one afternoon a preacher set up an amplifier on a street corner near me and begin reading from the Bible. Two squad cars with four officers were on the scene within minutes to tell him to "move along, now," and hung around long enough to make sure he obeyed, while exactly one block away every night several drug dealers gather in front of an apartment block filled mainly with children and elderly and openly hawk their product to anyone who pulls up to the curb.
How could this total lack of progress in this "war" occur without the complicity of at least some of the authorities?