This is what I think, I could be wrong.
1. Explain to me why Matt's team needed someone from the FBI to complete their mission. It was something about the CIA must have an outside agency with them to conduct missions in Mexico.
It's basically that simple. In order for the CIA operation to be "legal" there had to be a third party agency working with them. It's just a measure of checks & balances.
2. Explain to me what Matt told Kate about why they were doing the mission in the first place. It was something about trying to re-structure the drug trade to where the Medellin cartel was the major player again and not the Mexican drug cartels.
From what I remember he didn't tell her much of anything. Just vagaries about going after the Mexican cartel. Every time she'd ask for info, he'd tell her to shut up and just observe.
3. How did Kate know Ted had been hired by the Mexican drug cartel to kill her?
When he emptied his pockets onto the coffee table he pulled out a distinctive pink and blue rubber band, the same exact kind she had just seen around confiscated rolls of cartel cash.
4. So, Alejandro was the Sicario/the Hitman, and he worked for the Medellin
cartel, correct? If so, how was his wife and daugther killed by the Mexican cartel?
Sorry, I don't understand this question. What's weird about the Mexican cartel killing the family members of someone from the Columbian cartel?
5. If Alejandro worked for the Medellin cartel, why did he care if Kate signed the document saying the mission was by the book, why not an official from a US agency like Matt?
I don't recall them saying that Alejandro was working for the Columbian cartel, but a lot of people in here seem to think so. He was currently working with the US as a "consultant." I don't recall if they ever said so explicitly, but in the end I was under the impression he was only doing so because it would make it easier for him to get to his target and take his revenge, they were knowingly and willingly using each other. But I also took it that he had to follow certain procedures in order to stay in the US's good graces.
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bhnow
9 years ago
The only things I would further to Druffmaul's reply are:
2/ The plan was to establish order in the drug war, by establishing one cartel, a Columbian cartel, as the one-stop-shop cartel (to control all aspects of the trade). Implied was that the Americans had significant influence over that columbian cartel and could bring order to the drug trade, as opposed to the chaos that exists now. It was the best plan they could do, as Graver said, "until such time as 20% of the (US) population can be convinced to no longer snort or smoke cocaine."
4/ From what I understand, Alejandro is a Mexican, used to be a prosecutor, until the Sonora cartel murdered his family. He became a hitman for a rival of the Mexican cartel, ie the Columbian Medellin cartel, intent on revenge against the Mexican cartel.
5/ Alejandro was on some sort of contract with Graver and the US, as an assassin. Given his efficiency, and the fact he is a foreigner, he would be an obvious choice, easy to disappear back south should anything go bad.
In answer to Nankrom, my guess would be the cartel arranged the traffic jam and had the gangsters waiting for the American vans. Once the vans hit the traffic jam they would be sitting ducks, unable to go anywhere.
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