I dunno if anyone watched "Narcos," but there's a scene where Escobar is an elected representative, and one of the other reps tells him off saying: "You are a criminal" (unlike me). And the point is that that other guy may never be arrested or shot like Pablo, but the Mexican ruling class is corrupt. Their graft is (effectively, if not nominally) legal. But they are parasites nonetheless. The difference is in who they know and maybe a certain distance from the violence carried out for them.