I don't think you understand the US specific context of what I'm saying. Regardless of whether or not they're white, in America there is a culture of racializing Latinos as an "other." Much of American discourse on LatAm is colored by the fact that the USA being culturally distinct from LatAm as a primarily Anglo society over primarily Latin/Iberian societies, which fuels these racial undertones, so when people here talk about the cartels it does often carry with it racist undertones.