RE:RE:RE:Risks related to cartelsI can't think of too many thinks less uselful to steal than a bunch of copper concentrate. Large, bulky and completely worthless to anyone but a smelter, mostly located across the Pacific. They buy it via long term agreements with a small number of high profile, reputable international players, not off the back of a truck.
As for cartels interfering with big businesses, and in the case of ST it's be the biggest individual employer, tax payer, and driver of the regional economy the State likley has, I'd bet EVERYONE wants it to be developed and succeed. Mexico is the ~15th largest economy in the world, closer to 11th in PPP. Clearly, big business does well in Mexico. Think of a local or national stereotype that foreigners always judge your country by, yet which does not touch the vast majority of people's lives, and you know how Mexicans feel about the subject of cartels.