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Latin American countries are not strong countries as European countries are. Most of them only have 1 meaningful city, like Russia, and the military is all conscripts controlled by secret police, like Russia. Which means: most of the lands are uncontrolled, most of the towns don't have a military garrison (or if they do are too incompetent to care or intentionally disarmed), and none of the villages pay taxes. Gang tattoos are a fast, easy way to identify themselves within a larger group for shared protection. This is because there is no meaningful police, because if you call the police they will beat you and rob you worse than the criminals. Which is why everyone trusts and prefers narcos to the government, because narco taxes are much lower and narcos do not hurt people without cause.
It's like Russia using churkas to keep the serfs chained to their lords. Literally so in the case of American companies buying/renting prison laborers, if the prisons run out of criminals the police go around and pick people up for slavery. There's a reason why communism is so strong there and why people tend to point guns at soldiers if they happen to get a gun.
And vice versa it's how Russia had so much influence there before 1994 when Russians chose freedom instead. Nowadays it is China and best friend Cuba instead though.
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