https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/larr/drug-cartels-and-their-interference-politics-loss-electoral-competitiveness-municipal-elections
After reading the Ponce article on Drug Cartels and their Interference in Politics, find an example from a different news article that shows how cartels can work at the local level to influence politics, and explain how your example relates to the what is discussed in the Ponce article. Be sure to provide a good analysis. In other words if you say, “cartels influence politics because they pay off politicians,” that is a limited analysis. If instead you explain HOW, in your particular example, paying off a politician has affected the political environment in a specific town and what the ramifications may be.
