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In a one-minute TikTok video last fall, drug traffickers on link rigid inflatable boat yelled to the pilot to speed up as a Customs Surveillance Service vessel of Spain took chase. But it was a real, high-speed chase in the cartel drug wars. Cartels have long used social media to shock and intimidate their enemies, said Howard Campbell, anthropologist and drug expert at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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Viewers no longer see bodies hanging from bridges, disembodied heads on display or highly produced videos with messages to their enemies. Cartels do practice forced recruitment. They're going to continue to build up their business, so the recruitment of new employees will be critical.

They want to be cool, and they use these platforms to continue their business. They're promoting a terrorist organization so anybody that's involved in following or promoting Mexican cartels, they're involved with the most devastating violence.

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But the combination of these two factors could be as lethal for America as it has been for Mexico. Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the border shutdowns, cartels have found a way to continue sending drugs to America.

Murder rates in Mexico are growing, and so is the drug overdose crisis in the United States. She reported from Mexico for The Courier Journal on this story.

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