
President Donald Trump's tariff threats over drug trafficking and illegal immigration have unsettled economists and trade experts, but they have also alarmed those whose illicit enterprises face disruption—not from tariffs, but from intensified crackdowns: drug cartels.
Pablo (a pseudonym), a sicario or hitman for the Sinaloa Cartel, sat down for an interview with Canadian journalists from Le Journal de Montréal. The reporters, investigating the cartel's growing influence in Quebec, visited Culiacan—the epicenter of an ongoing turf war between the Chapitos and Los Mayos factions.