MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
they are now, but they weren't during the revolution
in fact, they probably saved the revolution as according to mao it was triad leaders who sheltered him in the 20s after the communists got fucked by the kuomintang (or at least that's the reference sakai uses in his book)
i'm just saying that because it's not always that organized crime is anti-communist or right-wing or whatever, lumpens in general tend to be a volatile class that can go anywhere and shouldn't be dismissed (of course, some groups i'd say are out of reach, but that should be looked at on a case by case basis)