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[Intro] You need to know that before the cartels existed things worked differently in Mexico The narcotics game was made of lone wolf traffickers Mostly Sinaloans Who purchased permission from the cops to run drugs in a particular city or territory They called it the Plaza System Here's how it worked: Anyone looking to do business in the territory had to cut in the plaza boss Pay him a piso, or a toll And if they chose not to, trust me, the boss made his displeasure known But here's the key: Each plaza stood alone Was its own world Run by a certified asshole who'd done enough dirt to get crowned king of that particular piece of turf The job tended to attract hard motherfuckers So a scheme to convince a bunch of rival plazas Led by trigger-happy sociopaths To work together Take direction from some other dirtbag? Yeah, right