Mexico drug cartel wars

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more deaths than Nam, Korea US deaths - approaching WW1 US death

probably won t approach WW2 but you never now

a bunch of subhuman savages - as aretheconsimers in America who purchase illegal drugs

 

[Mr.Nick]

Progressives want all that shit - its their talking points...

Mr. 8 heads in a duffel bag immigrates to Chicago, he kills a few people and all of a sudden its an example to ban guns, raise taxes and put more street cameras up.. They fuck a Latina, live on welfare then have future democrat babies, not to mention voting democrat themselves and whom are happy to support them with taxpayer dollars via entitlements and free lunch programs...

Of course this is while they play Mr. heads in a duffel bag off as a "poor immigrant."

Besides, most illegals are drug mules anyways. The cartels pay their way into the us while they transport dope. The best part of it is that most illegals that get caught with dope in the US only face deportation while if an American citizen was caught with the quantity of dope may who were deported were caught with they would be facing a firm prison sentence...

So not only do these criminals usually face no consequences for their actions - they get to bounce back and forth like a fucking pinball from Mexico to the US and vice versa..

 

[ScienceRocks]

I keep warning and warning...This is where are troops need to be. We need to kill each and everyone of these drug cartel bastards!

 

[Cowman]

Progressives want all that shit - its their talking points...

Go fuck yourself.

 

[ScienceRocks]

THIS IS where our men should be fighting. To protect their nation instead of the otherside of the planet for nothing.

 

[occupied]

Confronting the cartels needs to done very carefully, I am certain the only reason that the level of violence seen in Mexico is mainly confined to Mexico is because the cartels do not want us to militarize the border. The relatively isolated incidents on our side of border could get much, much worse if we go John Wayne on their asses without Mexican authorities getting a handle on them first.

 

[Photonic]

Confronting the cartels needs to done very carefully, I am certain the only reason that the level of violence seen in Mexico is mainly confined to Mexico is because the cartels do not want us to militarize the border. The relatively isolated incidents on our side of border could get much, much worse if we go John Wayne on their asses without Mexican authorities getting a handle on them first.

And then this happened.

 

[Mr.Nick]

Progressives want all that shit - its their talking points...

Go fuck yourself.

I suppose I shattered your universe and now you're bent??

Telling a democrat the truth is like explaining to a 7-year-old Santa presently doesn't climb down the fireplace you don't have....

 

[Mr.Nick]

Confronting the cartels needs to done very carefully, I am certain the only reason that the level of violence seen in Mexico is mainly confined to Mexico is because the cartels do not want us to militarize the border. The relatively isolated incidents on our side of border could get much, much worse if we go John Wayne on their asses without Mexican authorities getting a handle on them first.

Or Texas and Arizona....

 

[editec]

Progressives want all that shit - its their talking points...

Mr. 8 heads in a duffel bag immigrates to Chicago, he kills a few people and all of a sudden its an example to ban guns, raise taxes and put more street cameras up.. They fuck a Latina, live on welfare then have future democrat babies, not to mention voting democrat themselves and whom are happy to support them with taxpayer dollars via entitlements and free lunch programs...

Of course this is while they play Mr. heads in a duffel bag off as a "poor immigrant."

Besides, most illegals are drug mules anyways. The cartels pay their way into the us while they transport dope. The best part of it is that most illegals that get caught with dope in the US only face deportation while if an American citizen was caught with the quantity of dope may who were deported were caught with they would be facing a firm prison sentence...

So not only do these criminals usually face no consequences for their actions - they get to bounce back and forth like a fucking pinball from Mexico to the US and vice versa..

Reap what you sow, America.

 

[Cowman]

Progressives want all that shit - its their talking points...

Go fuck yourself.

I suppose I shattered your universe and now you're bent??

Telling a democrat the truth is like explaining to a 7-year-old Santa presently doesn't climb down the fireplace you don't have....

No, you're just a total lying douche.

 

[Douger]

THIS IS where our men should be fighting. To protect their nation instead of the otherside of the planet for nothing.

Your "men"=meatheads are busy protecting the opium crop in Afghaniland.

 

[Katzndogz]

This democrat administration is not only NOT going to put any sort of law enforcement on the border but if any law enforcement officer does try to do their job, they will be prosecuted and imprisoned (if they live). Likewise any American citizen that attempts to defend themselves, family or property.

 

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Mexico was already dangerous even before the drug wars.

hate the country

 

[waltky]

Heads are rollin' in Mexico...

Wave of Mexico violence reveals hidden graves, severed heads
Nov 25,`16 -- Soldiers and police fanned out Friday across the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, chasing a wounded gang leader and trying to quell a wave of violence that included the discovery of hidden graves holding dozens of bodies and a camp where gunmen stored the severed heads of nine rivals in a cooler.

The clashes between drug gangs were complicated by the fact that townspeople fed up with the violence had formed "community police" vigilante squads in many places. The squads often prevent police and soldiers from moving freely and sometimes act on behalf of the gangs. Gov. Hector Astudillo announced that federal authorities would return to patrol areas where dozens of often-dismembered bodies have been dumped on roadsides in recent weeks. The state has been riven, not just by the killings, but by the kidnapping of about a dozen people in the town of Ajuchitlan. Residents there announced they would create a vigilante force to look for the kidnap victims, an idea that threatened to create yet another armed group.

The Ajuchitlan residents were apparently kidnapped last week by a fugitive gang leader known as "El Tequilero," who was believed to be wounded and hiding out with his kidnap victims in the mountains. The state attorney general headed up a massive manhunt using helicopters and ground troops to look for him. But Astudillo warned that the vigilantes would have to withdraw to allow police and soldiers to do their jobs. "The army, the state police, they can't be there with armed groups," Astudillo said. "Withdraw, and we will enter immediately. But for the two to be there at the same time, that is not possible." The governor also announced the creation of mixed army-police patrols in parts of the state torn apart by cartel turf battles. One such area is the municipality of Zitlala, where a drug gang had set up a rural camp where it held kidnap victims and disposed of bodies.

When one of the joint military-police patrols happened upon the camp earlier this week, it found a kidnapped man and what appeared to be clandestine burial pits. Investigators initially reported finding a dozen bodies. After days of digging, they discovered 32 bodies in 17 pits. The camp is near the area where nine decapitated bodies were found dumped on a roadside last week. The nine heads found in coolers at the camp may belong to those bodies, investigators said. The bodies and heads were taken to forensic labs in a bid to identify them. The area has been the scene of turf battles between two rival drug gangs - the Rojos and the Ardillos - who engage in extortion, kidnappings and killings. That rivalry has resulted in hundreds of deaths and disappearances in recent years.

But in recent weeks the violence has spread to other areas, apparently as a result of turf battles between two or three other gangs, including the La Familia and the Tequileros gangs. Astudillo condemned what he has called the wave of "barbarism and savagery," and his office called the situation "a public disturbance caused by organized crime." Soldiers were combing the area to see if there are any more graves. Investigators were working to identify the bodies and the killers, said Roberto Alvarez Heredia, spokesman for the Guerrero Coordinating Group.

And in Tierra Colorada, nearer to the resort of Acapulco, rival vigilante groups have been engaged in a series of battles for control of the town, leading to fears the "community police" may be taking sides in the gang wars. "The truth is, they are not really community forces, nor are they police," Astudillo said. "They are armed groups that unfortunately carry out acts ... that generate more violence and confrontation, rather than help." The largely rural, impoverished state had 1,832 reported homicides in the first 10 months of 2016. If that rate continues unabated, Guerrero would be on track to have a homicide rate of about 60 per 100,000. That would rival the recent peak year of violence in the state, in 2012, when there were about 68 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

News from The Associated Press

 

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Women in Mexico demonstrate against drug cartel violence...

Women Fall Victim to Violence in Mexico's Decade-old War on Drugs
December 22, 2016 — Denisse Velasco has been suffering from acute anxiety since spring, when she narrowly escaped being abducted from a busy street in Guadalajara, Mexico.

She was waiting at a bus stop one morning when a man jumped out of a taxi and tried to force her inside. Velasco suspects it was a drug trafficker intent on kidnapping her for ransom. “The same thing could happen again in any moment,” Velasco told Reuters. “I walk different routes every day to make sure I'm not followed.” Velasco's story is far from uncommon in Mexico, where violence against women has risen dramatically since the government declared war on organized drug trafficking 10 years ago.

A woman takes part in a demonstration to commemorate the U.N. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Mexico City​

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched the hard-line war on drug cartels in December 2006, heavily increasing the role of the military to enforce the law-and-order regime. More than 170,000 killings have been reported since the crackdown commenced. The offensive splintered trafficking gangs, creating dozens of new ones. It also aggravated territorial disputes and made Mexico more violent, experts say, with women increasingly the victims. Murders of women have risen by 84 percent to 2,383 last year from 1,298 in 2006, according to government statistics.

Women protest violence against women in Mexico City​

The death toll for women has been particularly high in the key battlegrounds of Jalisco, Guerrero and Mexico states. Guadalajara, the site of Velasco's attack, is the capital of Jalisco, where authorities say 1,171 girls and women went missing in 2015. The Mexican government acknowledges the link between its war on drugs and violence against women. “There's a strong correlation between the rise in violent deaths of women and the strategy to combat organized crime,” said Pablo Navarrete Gutierrez, legal affairs coordinator for the National Institute of Women, a government agency charged with tackling gender violence and discrimination. “From 2012, we started to see a slight decrease in homicides of women, but the number is nevertheless worrying. This is a serious problem.”

'Misogynistic violence’

The violence has resonated through the community as a whole, said Maria Guadalupe Ramos Ponce, a coordinator for the Committee of Women's Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. “The drug war has normalized misogynistic violence,” Ramos Ponce said. The violence has grown more gruesome toward women as well, with torture and dismemberment more common, she said. "It is not just that they take their lives. It is how they take their lives," Ramos Ponce said, noting the body and decapitated head of an unidentified woman was found on the side of a Jalisco highway earlier this month.

Women lie on the ground during a performance in front of traffic police officers on the sidelines of a demonstration to demand justice for women who are the victims of violence, in Mexico City​

Since the war on drugs began, kidnappings and extortion have become commonplace, and Human Rights Watch has accused Mexican security officials of violating human rights through killings, torture and disappearances. The newer drug traffickers are more willing to target innocent victims, using kidnapping and human trafficking as threats and weapons, experts say. “The rules of engagement have changed, and killing a rival's family members has become common practice," said Angelica de la Pena Gomez, a senator for the Party of the Democratic Revolution and president of the Senate's Human Rights Commission.

Poverty

 

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Dispute over drug territory leads to 3 dead teens...

Mexico youth gang kills 3 teens in drug dispute
Jan 8,`17 -- A hit squad made up of two teenage girls, a boy and a woman has been detained for allegedly killing three boys aged 13, 14 and 15 in a poor neighborhood of northern Mexico, authorities said Sunday.

A police official in the northern state of Tamaulipas said the killings in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria appeared related to a dispute over control of street-level drug dealing. The official was not authorized to be quoted by name.

The purported youthful hit squad was said to be travelling in a van and shot their victims on the street late Saturday. A 17-year-old survived the shooting and was in serious condition at a hospital.

Mexico has seen child killers before, but seldom have teenage girls been involved in such crimes. In 2010, a 14-year-old boy who was a U.S. citizen confessed to killing four people in Mexico. The victims' beheaded bodies were found hanging from a bridge.

News from The Associated Press

 

[waltky]

Cartels tryin' to fill void left by El Chapo...

19 killed in shootout between Mexican police, rival gangs
July 1, 2017 -- At least 19 members of rival gangs died in a shootout with police in Mexico's western Sinaloa state, state prosecutors said.

The clashes resulted in injuries to five police officers Friday night. The confrontation started around 8:15 p.m., when members of one gang allegedly killed two people from a rival gang in Villa Union. Police then chased the gunmen and engaged in a shootout in Aguaje, where 17 gang members were killed.

Police seized some two dozen weapons and three vans from the gang members. Both local and state police investigated the shootout.

Violence in Sinaloa state has surged in the past several months after the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. His transfer to the United States has created a leadership vacuum. There were 120 murders in the state this February, up from an average monthly murder rate of 92 for the previous six years.

19 killed in shootout between Mexican police, rival gangs

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Mexico police kill 19 gunmen in big Sinaloa shootout
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 : Violence in Sinaloa jumped by 76% in the first five months of 2017, as infighting hits the cartel.

Mexican police say they have killed 19 gunmen in a shootout in the northern state of Sinaloa. Five police officers were injured in the confrontation. It started on Friday night in the town of Villa Union and ended after a multiple car chase in Aguaje, a few kilometres away - both in Mazatlán. The region has seen fierce in-fighting in the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel since the arrest of its leader, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, last year.

Violence has been on the rise in Sinaloa since the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán last year​

This was one of the worst clashes in the south of Sinaloa in recent months, local media reported. The gunmen had just killed two men from a rival gang when they were surprised by a large contingent of police who happened to be in the neighbourhood. They alerted army troops in the area, who chased the alleged gang members and caught up with them in Aguaje de Costilla.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is being held in a maximum security prison in New York​

The security forces seized some 20 weapons and three pick-up trucks from the gang. Violence in the region has gone up by 76% in the first five months of the year compared with the same period in 2016, according to the Home Office. Guzmán was arrested in January 2016, six months after escaping through a tunnel from the high-security Altiplano penitentiary near the capital, Mexico City. He was extradited to the United States a year later to face drug trafficking and money laundering charges.

Guzmán - whose nickname means "Shorty" - is believed to have amassed a billion-dollar fortune through the drugs trade after setting up the Sinaloa Cartel in the late 1980s. In May, award-winning journalist Javier Valdez became a high-profile victim of the violence in Sinaloa. Mr Valdez was acclaimed for reporting on the drugs trade in Sinaloa and the involvement of politicians and police. He was killed in the state capital, Culiacán, where he lived and worked. His death prompted protests in many Mexican cities.

Mexico police kill 19 gunmen in big Sinaloa shootout - BBC News