I tell people at work, the way to fix the cartel problem is to legitimize cartels. You have to appeal to the fact that people want to leave things better for future generations. Change their AOR as a business to something else. They already diversified to some legal fields. The cartels already have the logistics, communication, and infrastructure.
An organization this big doesn’t disappear just because you captured the top guy. Someone will take over. That someone will usually be deadly so that they can cement their leadership.
If you convince the top guy to restructure his organization then after a few generations maybe they can have a ‘me too’ movement. No one likes my idea though, so I don’t know if that means it’s a good negotiation deal or a bad one. 😂