The capture of the low-profile physician who headed one of Mexico’s big narcotics cartels has underscored a shift in the management of the billion-dollar business from showy thugs with jeweled revolvers to discreet, tech-savvy college graduates more prone to a suit than to snakeskin boots.
There is a world of difference bewteen the flamboyant drug bosses who thought every problem could be solved with bribes or bullets and a figure like Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, alias “the Doctor.” Full Story