El Mencho’s death could strengthen PCC, which is ‘more professional’ than Mexican cartels, says expert

Today the PCC already controls a large part of the cocaine route to Europe. It is continually expanding. Even with its leaders arrested, this did not weaken the group precisely because of a different structure. PCC is structured like a company. So, you can arrest a leader — Marcola, for example, has been in prison for decades — and he is just a leader of the Final Tuning, which is a group of people who decide the direction of the PCC. It is an organization much more resilient to the type of combat known as kingpinwhich consists of eliminating or isolating leadership.