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With A Little Help From His Friends

Spotters are unarmed individuals with cell phones or radios who warn criminals of the movements of local police. For desperate people too young to wield weapons, they can still aid their families by helping crime bosses move around town undetected; or, in present day, to move across town. Every day, spotters help to smuggle people across the border into America by using binoculars at high vantage points and camouflaging themselves to be undetected by helicopters. Almost every spotter admits to doing what they do for money. That's the power of the drug trade. It can corrupt the youth and exploit poor families who will do anything for extra money.

But for Pablo, spotters weren't enough. His son Juan Pablo admitted that his father bought his own taxi firm to find out when his enemies arrived in his hometown. He also used the cabs to move around in less obvious cartel vehicles.