School history books teach that American States like Texas pulled the Mexican States out of a state of anarchy during the Second Great Depression. Real history is a bit more complicated than that. The drug cartels had taken over large swaths of Mexican territory in the north where they could easily smuggle drugs into America and guns out of America. But southern and central Mexico was an orderly and industrious nation ranked as a top ten economy on the world stage. It was a tale of two Mexicos, and the drug cartel Mexico is the one that most remember.