It is the goddamned government but what your friend don't understand is that the cartels are in bed with the government. There's no way a decent group of people are going to offer "jobs" that put food on the table by means of destroying other people's lives to do so. You either serve one master or the other. Both the government and the cartels are evil. A decent person would not have any part of that shit. Even if it meant staying poor. It's called having a conscience.