Reply With QuoteAnother day of narco turf fighting. Sounds to me that only other narcos were killed, so no tears shed here.
23 people killed, hung in Mexican border town
the rest here:http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05...d-decapitated/MEXICO CITY – The bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall Friday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escalating turf war.
Authorities found nine of the victims, including four women, hanging from an overpass leading to a main highway, said a Tamaulipas state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to provide information on the case.
these cartels really need a JDAM up their you know what!
Another day of narco turf fighting. Sounds to me that only other narcos were killed, so no tears shed here.
hanged, not hung ... they are not tapestry.
Jesus Christ, that's insane! I sincerely hope someone takes the gloves off and cleans this scum off the face of the Earth.
Give it a couple of more years and Mexico will be very short of males, imagine that. (lol).
Which scum? The government, the army or the cartels?Originally Posted by Bankoletti
Don't you just love the foreign policy experts on MPNet?
Anyone else remember that they did this in the revolution? Selma Hayek's dress...the Burt Reynolds movie where he is supposed to be a Yaqui. Life imitating art. Scary stuff. I fucking love Mexico and go every year if I can, but Tamaulipas would be a no-go. Yucatan is OK but you have checkpoints on the 'freakin highway. I don't know if it's to discourage cartel trafficking or to make us gueros feel safe when we're down there.
the mexican government needs to get their head out of their asses and realize that this is an insurgency. Drugs are simply a source of money to fund this insurgency, it is not about controlling the drug trade, it is about controlling the damn country or swaths of the country. Drugs are means to an ends....but the source of money has diversified.
They are badly losing this battle and losing control of the country more and more every year.
An American in Mexico being a tourist and spending money will likely go unharmed unless in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then again, that basically applies almost everywhere.
It's not just drugs; it's taxes on trucking, people smuggling, even freaking freon. To point at drugs as the sole source of the Cartels power is inaccurate.
Shame the people buying the drugs seem to miss their own role in these deaths
Easier said than done. Corruption starts at the top. There was this island I would go to a lot and when you first visited the place, their base looked like something out of McHale's Navy. If you go now, there are Marines everywhere and guys out constantly in what appear to be presence patrols. Maybe it's theater, but I would not instantly fault the Mexican government considering there are some who are at least appearing to try at some level.
did you read what I wrote?To point at drugs as the sole source of the Cartels power is inaccurate.
it is not about controlling the drug trade, it is about controlling the damn country or swaths of the country. Drugs are means to an ends....but the source of money has diversified.
this is true but its a losing battle. Hell, maybe it is already lost.there are some who are at least appearing to try at some level.
It may be time to ask the US to get its military involved, or maybe we just need to do it. This crap is not staying in mexico, Arizona is having a lot of problems, specifically with kidnappings - in fact Phoenix is rivaling mexico city in kidnappings
Ah yes Mexico, they only place worse than Afghanistan.
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