[Catfish]

You should really read Don Winslow's "The power of the dog" and "The cartel", they are real eye openers. It is about Mexico and the Narcos, but don't blame it on them, it is the US that buys most of the drugs.

The cartels may have been mere trafficking gangs long ago, but are now "little states, with their bosses being politicians sending other men to war. Some of those men are putatively public servants, but graft has so comprehensively penetrated the state that at one point the drug wars take the surreal form of local police fighting their federal counterparts, each side on the payroll of a different cartel."

The higher powers like e.g. the American government and the Mexican government have a philosophy like there is always going to be a drug trade and a drug cartel, so it might as well be our drug cartel. If you want to blame and shoot all who are somewhere in the drug selling chain, you can begin with the Mafia, with the Mexican and US government, and then go on to their law enforcement, the CIA, and then go on to Europe, China, anywhere, but it will not work.
No chance in hell you will get this ever right.