Cartels, The Mafia, And Omerta
" Mexicans don’t flip. Part of the way the cartels retain control is through fear. Mexicans will cooperate to a certain level, but they won’t talk about Sinaloa. They know their family back home will be killed .” -- Undercover DEA agent... Olivia and Mia Flores (not their real names) wrote Cartel Wives , which tells the story of their lives as the wives of twin brothers who worked for JoaquÃn (El Chapo) Guzman, the former head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Olivia and Mia Flores... After their husbands decided to cooperate with US law enforcement to help nail El Chapo and other high-ranking cartel figures in exchange for reduced sentences, they went to prison, where they’ve resided for the past 10 years in undisclosed locations. The women live under phony names in hotels with armed guards. The two women grew up in a Chicago suburb, the daughters of police officers. They are not in the witness protection program, however, because they “chose to not be in it,” as they expla...