El Chapo, a Mexican Folk Hero

[longknife]

I've heard this first hand and was told people felt safer around him than their local police. Said he care for the little people and improves their lives while government officials get fat and live in luxury.


“The drug dealers do more for the people than the government does,” said Eric Reyes, 33, a systems engineer from Mexico City, who stopped by the shrine out of curiosity while on vacation. “If you live in a dealer’s territory he treats you well. The government won’t do anything for you. It’s all bureaucracy and red tape.”


This comes from Public Enemy? At Home in Mexico, ‘El Chapo’ Is Folk Hero No. 1 @ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/w...many-mexicans-hearts.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

 

[Anathema]

That would be great if his "Organization" wasn't shipping illegal products into the United States and making illegal border crossings to do it.

 

[Katzndogz]

El Chapo is a hero to presidunce obumble too.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

El Chapo sounds like something I had for lunch at Taco Bell. "I'd Like An Extra Large El Chapo, hold the lettuce and extra pickles please".

 

[Mac1958]

“The drug dealers do more for the people than the government does,” said Eric Reyes, 33, a systems engineer from Mexico City, who stopped by the shrine out of curiosity while on vacation. “If you live in a dealer’s territory he treats you well. The government won’t do anything for you. It’s all bureaucracy and red tape.”

This really is at the heart of the issue. All these drug lords purchase loyalty from surrounding citizens, and have done so for a long time.

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[Ringel05]

They view him as a Mexican Robin hood, doesn't change the fact that he and his organization are responsible for at least 1000 murders.

 

[danielpalos]

Nothing like the Prohibition of a drug war to help Persons of the People be more "patriotic" to their equivalent to our Ninth Amendment.

Al Capone was a Patriot to our Ninth Amendment.

 

[HenryBHough]

The left has a new Robin Hood!

 

[whitehall]

They might feel safe around him but I seriously doubt that "he (El Chapo) cares for the little people and improves their lives". No doubt the myth is promoted by idiots in the U.S. liberal media but El Chapo most likely addicts the little people to drugs and ruthlessly murders them if they get out of line.

 

[charwin95]

It is a fact that drug lords pampered locals for sake of safe haven. Escobar did the same. Poor locals will get rewarded for their loyalties rather than turn him.

 

[Anathema]

I wonder how long these people would support him if the US had a real war on drugs and napalm/2000 lb bombs were falling on them regularly.

 

[danielpalos]

El Chapo sounds like something I had for lunch at Taco Bell. "I'd Like An Extra Large El Chapo, hold the lettuce and extra pickles please".

would that be, supersize it to a, El Chapo grande?

 

[danielpalos]

The left has a new Robin Hood!

The right still has an extra-Constitutional form of Prohibition that simply produces more of them.

 

[danielpalos]

I wonder how long these people would support him if the US had a real war on drugs and napalm/2000 lb bombs were falling on them regularly.

How long would the People support the Right, if they had to pay Wartime Tax rates for a real war on drugs.

 

[Anathema]

How long would the People support the Right, if they had to pay Wartime Tax rates for a real war on drugs.

Considering it would be carried out by removing ALL other US foreign military activities and bases the taxes would likely go down. Besides, if we actually carried it out as a War (no prisoners) it would be pretty short.

 

[danielpalos]

How long would the People support the Right, if they had to pay Wartime Tax rates for a real war on drugs.

Considering it would be carried out by removing ALL other US foreign military activities and bases the taxes would likely go down. Besides, if we actually carried it out as a War (no prisoners) it would be pretty short.

With only a vacuum of special pleading to work with? Are you claiming we should end our useless wars on Crime, Poverty, and Terror merely to engage in a "real" War on Drugs.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The United States created El Chapo

 

[Anathema]

With only a vacuum of special pleading to work with? Are you claiming we should end our useless wars on Crime, Poverty, and Terror merely to engage in a "real" War on Drugs.

Poverty, Yes. I'm suggesting we limit the others to the appropriate area.... Our territory for the wars on Crime, Terror and Drugs and that we undertake them as actual WARS. If the criminals, terrorists and drug dealers stay away from the US we have no need to bother them.

 

[August West]

I wonder how long these people would support him if the US had a real war on drugs and napalm/2000 lb bombs were falling on them regularly.

That was our recipe for success in Vietnam wasn`t it?

 

[Anathema]

That was our recipe for success in Vietnam wasn`t it?

We made the mistake of caring about the citizenry in Vietnam. I'm talking about letting them burn with their "Mexican Robin Hood".