User:Botson Cartel

The Botson Cartel were an infamous narcotic trafficking and dealing organisation in Tijuana, Mexico in the early 1900s. Their revered leader, Michel Botson Tartadequeso was still a fugitive when he died in 1933. Little is known about their enigmatic leader and the cartel itself, though their methods were thought to be particularly brutal. Local legend dictates that Tartadequeso himself was a chronically addicted drug user and that his death was perhaps the result of a coup from within his own Cartel, angered that their own stock was depleting due to its leader's massive intake.

The organisations roots are traced to 1913 when the emergence of narcotics in South America became a lucrative business. Botson capitalised on the early influx of narcotics and demand for them in the Tijuana area. Though still legal in 1913, most of the drugs were soon to be outlawed and had gripped the region, leading to loss of jobs, rise in crime and a rush to 'stock up' before the law was passed banning the substances, believed to be an early strain of cocaine from South America.

Organized by a small but dedicated ring of traffickers and regional dealers, the Cartel were known to torture rival uprising cartels by feeding them copious amounts of their own supply, using the guise of 'business meetings' to discuss mergers to expand the distribution of narcotics. Often they would be force fed their own stock until they died, making it easy to blame the victim for using too much at once.

The Cartel disbanded after the death of their leader, though many of its members went on to control the sale of narcotics in the region. It is thought that many used the Cartel's blueprint to start major drug and trafficking rings, with some methods still being used today.