>In this episode of Better Call Saul, Don Hector, lieutenant of the Juárez Cartel, asks to examine a $50 bill that "looked funny" to Nacho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfXGTREGAV8)>Don Hector's branch of the cartel can effortlessly afford the $7 million payment for Lalo's bond (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbZGWOq1bGM) and clearly has lots of operatives and associates>But Hector still needs to be physically present during collections in some bumfuck ice cream front shop, exposed to street-level associates bringing in their scraps>He only has Nacho around: a mere associate of the cartel, not even an official member, seeing that Lalo subsequently has to vouch for him to Don EladioAny explanation for any of this other than "just turn your brain off lmao"?Tuco was a lower-tier member of the cartel pyramid so it kinda made sense for him to be around during collections, keeping things in line given his more limited resources. But what the fuck is Hector even doing there? Doesn't he have other responsibilities with managing his part of the empire? And then Lalo takes over after Hector, as if a Salamanca family member must absolutely be around as trashy gangbangers come to deliver their $20 bills or cry about being "light"Imagine if Nacho's plan succeeded without being discovered and then for the next episode Don Eladio appeared
>>214768845>ice cream front shop
The Salamancas were a glorified crew. Gus was the major distributor in the area. I also hate faggots like OP who obsesses over some arbitrary aspect of fiction and act like it’s some gotcha.>Why is the drug dealer participating in drug dealing? What a plothole!Fucking retard.
>>214768913>"just turn your brain off lmao"
>>214768845Lalo is from the south. He works 99% of the time in Mexico, he gets his money from Eladio not Hector. Lalo is above Hector. The time we see him in the series is like... I think it's less than a year right that he's operating in the US??? His time from the end of season 4 through season 5 where he leaves? Lalo's bail isn't coming out of Hector's paycheck or earnings
>>214768913It was pretty retarded when Gus Fring has a meeting between Jesse and two unnamed street dealers though.
>>214768845I just finished reading Carlos Lehders book. He was one of the top 3 most powerful people in the Medellin cartel, and he wrote that he himself and several other leaders liked to be hands-on instead of sitting in an office directing other people to do shit. Lehder was the leader of his own group just like Escobar was (the cartel was a federation of 36 groups, each with their own leader), but he'd still frequently help loading up planes with coke and take part in other low level shit. So it's not that implausible
>>214768845Its like when a high up manager does a yearly spot check at all the branches in your area. They wanted to make sure they are keeping a tight ship in the US locations and put some fear of God in them.
>>214768929I would have to it if I wanted to interact with a fucking retard like you, what exactly are you upset about ? A character who’s a drug dealer presiding over their drug dealing business because you just decided they shouldn’t?
>>214769086would don eladio being around make sense to you then? i mean he is into the drug trade so it fulfills your standards of acceptable writing
>>214769041Oh, and he also mentioned one of the other cartel leaders didn't even bother hiring pilots for smuggling operations. He flew his own planes simply because he enjoyed the excitement
>>214769115No it wouldn’t because Don Eliado lives in Mexico not Albuquerque.
>>214768845also, its just two people? somebody can just walk in there with a gun and rob them
>>214769186it's okay the aura of the twins protects the place
>>214768964Sure but people in real life do retarded things constantly, even people as intelligent and successful as Gus have made massive mistakes. I don’t understand why shitheads act like a fictional character not having infallible decision making is a plot hole. It’s the same as bitching about Walt leaving the book from Gale on his toilet, just because someone is intelligent or successful doesn’t mean they won’t make a mistake, almost every high profile drug dealer throughout history has made mistakes.
>>214769226reddit pls, a mistake the show acknowledges is a mistake is one thing, a mistake because the writers didn’t consider it is another
>>214768952Hector is the official Patriarch of the Salamanca family, Lalo is most certainly not above Hector. In season 5 Lalo has a full on walled off mansion. In season 6 episode 1 Mike tells Nacho to be careful because he’s in Salamanca territory, which means the Salamanca’s have a a vast amount of land/territory in Mexico.
>>214769279There’s nothing more Reddit than creating a bunch of gay ass rules for fiction. Your interpretation means nothing to anybody but yourself, if those events ruin the show for you that’s your problem.
>>214768845This doesn’t happen in the books. The Salamancas are a lot more expanded upon and powerful in the novels. The actual leader of the Salamancas is a man named Pedro who is the father of Lalo and Tuco. Hector in the books is more of a middle management guy. They combined Hector and Pedro to make it easier to show on screen for the viewer
>>214769041Even Pablo Escobar himself sometimes helped load the planes. He was already a billionaire when these pictures were taken and shown on TV by Ronald Reagan
>>214769320Hector is a fucking joke in Saul source: the scene you're complaining about in OP. He's laundering cheap, small money dealing tiny amounts of drugs. An ice cream store dude. There's a scene where Hector delivers his cash to Eladio at the pool and Bolsa mogs him with BRICKS of money. That's his arc in BCS, he's very low down, isn't respected, and is punished to set the stage for Gus to be the kingpin of the North in Breaking Bad. There's nothing suggesting Hector has assets or any respect from Eladio or Bolsa. Lalo was the heir to the Salamanca name
>>214769320and he sits in a shitty mexican restourant counting collections from street level drug dealers? its not only that someone can just rob them is that they can kidnap him torture him to give them info about where the stash is etc
>>214769391>Even Pablo Escobar himself sometimes helped load the planes.This was in Colombia where he was basically a king and could do whatever he wanted. Not the US.
>>214769472criminals like to flaunt that they are untouchable. he was taking a risk but it was in service of his hardness.
>>214769320Hector is the Junior Soprano of BCS. We see Lalo's operation where the millions are counted and what he gave to Eladio. It easily dwarfed what Hector was bringing. It was even more than Gus was. Gus had a personal grudge against Hector, but it's clear Lalo was the bigger player.
>>214769555Nope. That picture was taken in Nicaragua, where the cartel had paid off the socialist Sandinista government to use their country as a trampoline. The CIA were funding the contra rebels at the time, trying to overthrow the Sandinista government. When the DEA showed that picture to the Preisdent, he authorized the CIA to go after the drug traffickers as a matter of national security and pressured the Colombian government to allow extraditions into the US, and that was the end of the Medellin cartel
>>214769613>its actually some other 3rd world shithole in south americaoh my bad
>>214769655Where the cartel knew that the CIA and US government were actively working to overthrow their partners. That's relevant
>>214768929>>214769086>>214769115>>214769181réddit: the conversation
>>214769440Hector gives Eladio a cut of his business on a monthly basis or so. Not sure. That money he gives to Eladio isn’t a full accounting of his wealth, just a percentage of what he makes in a certain amount of time.>>214769607That place is probably the Salamancas treasury, where they keep all their money from everything they earn. The Salamancas make money in Mexico and America, and that place was the entire sum of their wealth. Lalo basically took a bit of that spare money from the vault in order to look good to Eladio.
>>214769889Now you're just making shit up, anon.
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>>214769980You can tell the power structure by the order they were sent to the US. Tuco < Hector < Lalo. He is at the very least on Hector's level. Both are captains.
>>214768845how about gus' entire empire relying on several dozens of people keeping silent about a drug operation under a chicken restaurant?a single anonymous call would be all needed to destroy himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1u8jEPG71Uthat's enough of a plothole for you?
A Salamanca has to present in the Salamanca territory of the US
