For more info:
The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine (not about the mexican cartels specifically but about how they utilized the very same blueprint down to a t in Operation Phoenix in Vietnam and exported that model pretty much everywhere the US had its hands in)
Surely you don't mean the system requires a deserving underclass to do menial necessary work at exorbitant and exploitative profits and that pushing that underclass to foreign countries by shoring up (and then attacking) their criminal elements (with assassinations and bombings) to maximise their brutality and weaken the state by leaving the mess up to them to deal with.
Surely you jest, the good guys wouldn't do something like that right?