"All other countries have a mafia, in Bulgaria the mafia has a country."
Now if you excuse me, I have to go jump out the window.
All of them the result of US interference, both directly and indirectly via The War on Drugs™.
If drugs are outlawed, only outlaws will deal in drugs.
The cartels are terrible, evil organizations made up of despicable and desperate human beings. There is nothing good to say about them. But if drugs were strongly regulated, instead of made illegal, and drug addiction treated like an illness, would they even exist?
If you like books, I highly recommend "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade"
Or if the US hadn't made its own opioid crisis, which caused skyrocketing demand for hard drugs (and is the result of a pharma industry that is completely out of control) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-drug-war
Or if the US was in any way concerned with addressing the actual drug consumption crisis.
Your argument makes no sense. If the drugs weren't illegal then your whole argument goes up in a puff of smoke.
If you can't prove to me that this "war" is valid, then any premise you base upon it is nullified.
Go ahead, sell me on how the war is about keeping America safe.
It's a little easy to blame everything on the US. You can also factor in the fact they had weak central governments to begin with. A country that has a strong executive power is usually not overrun by cartels.
By contrast, the allegations are that Bulgarian political leadership isn't simply in the pocket of the mafia, they are the mafia leadership. It's sort of like in a military coup where the General-cum-President installs all his lieutenants into government office and otherwise changes the system so that the military controls all the levers. That's a quite different situation than in Mexico, and I'm not aware of any analogous situation anywhere else unless you play semantic games--e.g. consider as "mafia" the oligarchs and aristocrats of kleptocratic regimes. Such gross equivocations are great for manipulating outrage, including diversionary outrage--e.g. whataboutism--but not particularly constructive.
If the mafia becomes the government, technically you can't call them the mafia anymore, because they have become legitimate once they gain political power.