3. MEXICO
Drug cartels
The main transit point for drugs from South America to North America.
In McMafia, a member of a Mexican cartel tries to woo Godman to do business with him. There are seven main drugs cartels in Mexico and they are notorious for their extreme violence. There have been more than 200,000 deaths in the past 10 years due to the drug trafficking trade alone. Beheadings and torture have become commonplace. “Mexico is the contemporary killing fields of organised crime,” says Glenny.