The Militarization of Mexican Cartels, featuring Stefano Ritondale

In this special episode of Crime Beat Conversations, Rafaella Lipschitz sat down with Stefano Ritondale, Chief Intelligence Officer of Artorias, to discuss the militarization of Mexican cartels.

Stefano describes how cartels in Mexico have shifted from transactional to territorial models, and how this shift has led to changes in cartel structure, the adoption of new weapons, and use of Colombian mercenaries to train fighting forces.

Stefano also describes how Mexican cartels, and many other criminal networks in the Western Hemisphere, shape their armament around U.S. weapons flows.