Mexican cartels now using ‘tanks’

[LilOlLady]

Mexican cartels now using ‘tanks’
By William Booth , Published: June 7

For the drug cartel boss who has everything, the latest piece of military hardware is the “narco tank.”
Today’s competitive crime mafias in Mexico are no longer satisfied with bazookas, rocket-propelled grenades or land mines. The Mexican military has discovered that gangsters south of Texas are building armored assault vehicles, with gun turrets, inch-thick armor plates, firing ports and bulletproof glass.
Mexican cartels now using ‘narco tanks’ - The Washington Post

 

[Nate]

Damn, when did the A-Team start working for the Cartels!?!

Why oh why does it seem like our Federal Government turning a blind eye on what's going on down there!?!?

 

[High_Gravity]

The Mexican cartels are running Mexico so they have always had access to things like Tanks, they just have not used them until now.

 

[dhc]

Damn, when did the A-Team start working for the Cartels!?!




Why oh why does it seem like our Federal Government turning a blind eye on what's going on down there!?!?

I like the plywood protecting the radiator!!

 

[LilOlLady]

Damn, when did the A-Team start working for the Cartels!?!

Why oh why does it seem like our Federal Government turning a blind eye on what's going on down there!?!?

They are turning a blind eye to what is going on here, so it is no suprise they turn a blind eye to what is happening in Mexico. Actually there is no border between US and Mexico. Just an imaginary border. We do nothing but token enforcement in order not to OFFEND Mexico. The fence offend them, deporting criminals offend them. Not financially taking care of illegal aliens offend them. Hell we may as well just give the hell up and open the border completely and get the hell our of the good old USA.
If I were young, I would leave and stop fighting.

 

[Smash_Hits]

Maybe if Americans stopped getting addicted to drugs this wouldn't be an issue.

 

[waltky]

Good point...

AZ Sheriff: Why More Troops at Korean Border Than U.S. Border?
Monday, June 20, 2011 – Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu said the Obama administration’s decision to extend the deployment of 1,200 U.S. National Guard troops along the U.S. border with Mexico until Sept. 30 is “pandering” and that those numbers “fall far short” of what military power is needed to keep the country safe.

Babeu noted, for comparison, the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to help defend it against North Korean aggression; U.S. troops have been stationed in South Korea for 58 years. Babeu is the sheriff of Pinal County in southern Arizona and is on the frontlines against illegal immigration, human traffickers, drug smugglers, and potential terrorists. He was named the 2011 National Sheriff of the Year by the National Sheriff’s Association on Sunday, June 19. “What are we doing?” Babeu told CNSNews.com by telephone. “We need 6,000 armed soldiers on our border to protect America. Homeland Security starts at home.” He was talking about the National Guard.

Babeu said that only 520 guardsmen are deployed in Arizona, a state with a 276-mile border with Mexico and the state that has, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the greatest influx of illegal aliens. In 2010, approximately 212,000 illegal aliens were seized in the Tucson sector of Arizona – or 47 percent of all illegal aliens taken into custody. “The gravest national security risk that we face is right here with the unsecure border with Mexico,” Babeu said. “Right from the beginning, these 1,200 [National Guard] soldiers fall far short from what’s really, truly needed to achieve a secure border.”

Babeu said that 6,000 troops should be deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border: 3,000 in Arizona and 1,000 in each of the three other border states for a two-year period. Babeu also said it was “tremendous” to have received the Sheriff of the Year award, which he said he accepted on behalf of the 700 men and women who work with him, the citizens of Arizona and for the state. Babeu added that he believed the work law enforcement is doing in Arizona also played a role.

“I think it has everything to do with us standing up for America, standing up for the rule of law and not being shouted down by the president and his men trying to make like somehow we’re being un-American for enforcing the law and wanting a secure border,” Babeu said. He said he thinks President Barack Obama has made race the issue instead of fulfilling his job of protecting the American people by enforcing immigration laws. “It’s not about race, color or national origin,” Babeu said. “It’s about enforcing the law, Mr. President. That’s our job.” The White House announced last week that it would extend the deployment for the 1,200 National Guard troops for three more months.

AZ Sheriff: Why More Troops at Korean Border Than U.S. Border? | CNSnews.com

 

[Angelhair]

ONE bomb would take care of it......

 

[waltky]

Obama sendin' Hillary down there to straighten `em out...

Central American drug war, crime top agenda at regional summit
June 22, 2011 - US Secretary of State Clinton and presidents from around Central America are convening in Guatemala City to determine ways to boost security and contain the sway of regional mafias.

Central America has always been a so-called “highway north” for drugs en route to the US. And with a history of civil strife, weak institutions, and staggering impunity, the isthmus has struggled for decades to maintain stability. But with pressure mounting on drug traffickers in the past decade in Colombia and Mexico, Central America has found itself swept into a new era of violence. Now leaders are trying to forge a security plan for a region that many say has been overlooked by the billion-dollar US aid packages provided for Colombia and Mexico. Presidents from Central America are expected to converge at a security conference hosted by the Central American Integration System (SICA) in Guatemala City today. Guests include the presidents of Colombia and Mexico, as well as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“I would call it a crisis, especially among the three most critical countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras,” says Donald J. Planty, the managing director of The Emergence Group in Washington and former US ambassador to Guatemala. New attention on Central America is not just an effort to salvage judicial systems and police forces increasingly overwhelmed by drug violence. Leaders say they must contain the sway of mafias in order to achieve overall success against crime in Latin America. “The biggest neighboring countries in the region have serious concerns about Guatemala, above all,” says Manfredo Marroquin, president of the board at Accion Ciudadana, a Guatemalan democracy-building organization formed after the Guatemalan peace accord in 1996. “It could help a lot for Guatemala to realize what a threat it is to the region.”

In the past decade, it was gangs like the 18th Street Gang (M-18) and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that dominated security issues in the region. But now organized crime, squeezed by government efforts in Colombia and Mexico, has increasingly moved into Central America as well, with groups using it as a major transit zone today for drugs. There are signs of "spillover violence" from Mexico into northern Guatemala. Some evidence suggests the region is becoming a manufacturer, too. In March, police in Honduras found what they said was the first cocaine processing laboratory in the country.

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La Familia drug cartel defeated, says Mexico
June 22, 2011 - La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón can declare a decisive victory in his country's brutal war on drugs. Federal authorities have arrested the leader of La Familia, the drug trafficking organization that espouses religious ideals, but gained worldwide notoriety when it tossed five human heads onto a dance floor in Michoacán state four years ago. Since then, La Familia has made money and wielded influence through not just drug running but kidnapping, extortion, intimidation, and murder. Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, also known as El Chango, or “The Monkey,” was arrested in the state of Aguascalientes, the government announced Tuesday.

“With this arrest, what remained of the structure of this criminal organization has been destroyed," security spokesman Alejandro Poire said at a news conference. His arrest follows the death of the group’s founder, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, in December. George Grayson, a professor at William & Mary and author of “Mexico: Narco- Violence and a Failed State,” says that the arrest effectively decapitates the organization. But with alliances that La Familia made with other groups, including the Sinaloa cartel, against the Zetas group, many secondary leaders could simply get absorbed into the Sinaloa group. “The Sinaloa cartel will spread into Michoacan,” he says. It remains to be seen what the arrest means for Michoacán.

For residents like a hotel owner I once met, who says he was regularly forced to hand over “protection money” to La Familia gangsters who would barge into his hotel, a disintegration of the group would surely be welcome. Others are more ambivalent about La Familia. Even though the violence they perpetrated was not necessarily condoned, the group has supported communities with public works like street light or church repair, giving them a certain amount of credibility, especially in rural Michoacán. And this does not mean peace. For starters, the group had already begun to splinter, like so many other groups who face a vacuum at the top ranks. And Professor Grayson says that the Zetas are likely “rejoicing” at the possibility of making greater inroads into the state, which usually means more fighting as various groups vie for control.

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[Angelhair]

Never fear. The FBI, the CIA, the U.S. military is in Mexico trying to help them out. And still not to fear - the USA will give Calderon ALL the credit for the accomplishments.