Sicario, The CIA protects the drug trade in order to control it

Scenes from Sicario (2015) that reveal that FBI agent Kate Macer has been duped into participating in a CIA operation to help a member of the Colombian drug cartel eliminate the cartel s competitor cartels so that the drug trade becomes more orderly, and therefore more easily controlled by the US. That is, rather than trying to eliminate the drug trade, the US is helping and protecting one specific group who will then do favors for the US. The reallife US government has a long history of cooperating wit