MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
Funny how liberal and reactionary words are fine, when you didn't yet critically analyzed them. There is enough by hard written on (organized) crime, there are material analysis possible, there is enough from published from Mexican groups to use alternative framing.
Cartels are neither bad for being criminal, nor for being organized, nor for being organized crime, they are bad for the hurt of individuals, bad for the reactionary violence and anti emancipatory allowances they keep up etc. but nothing of it is cause of them being organized crime, except in the sense that capitalist enterprise that uses (alternative) state violence to control nodes of production, the sphere of circulation and so on and so on.
Marx did show how organized violence and organized crimes (in relation to the laws of the predecessors) is what constituted a good part of the primitive accumulation, of colonialism and also on the advanced capitalist mode as found in the 'most developed' nations of Europe (not in a positive sense of progress, but an Marxist one in relation to industrialised capitalist production).