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Maybe we turned Loop Capital into a lot more work than it ever needed to be. Top-down seems like a much better approach. Where are they located? Chicago. What is Chicago known for, news-wise? Violence and murders. Drug-centered gangs. There's a lot of drug traffic going through there, and it isn't all for local consumption. MS13 would have fit perfectly into that model and had it been approached from that angle, it probably wouldn't have taken ten minutes to make the finance connection.
https:// www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/politics/trump-davos-world-economic-forum.html
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