Mexican drug cartels – Page 6

U.S. Examined Allegations of Cartel Ties to Allies of Mexico’s President

American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.

The inquiry, which has not been previously reported, uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed the country.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2024February 23, 2024•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA, WTF?

The diary of a teenage sicario: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’

Twelve-year-old Andrés Camilo Romaña had spent most of his young life collecting rubbish in the poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of Quibdó in Colombia’s Pacific coastal region of Chocó.

He did not like school because he was frequently bullied. Instead, he preferred to endure the unrelenting humidity of the city, roaming its streets and sifting through bins for anything of value.

“He was a good boy. He worked hard,” his mother, Jacinta Romaña, told The Telegraph. “He was never tempted by the easy money of gangs and violence.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2024January 7, 2024•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, WTF?

Mexican villagers who killed extortionists ‘acted in self-defence’

Mexican villagers who killed 10 members of the notorious Familia Michoacana criminal gang will not be facing any charges after prosecutors ruled they had acted in self-defence.

Prosecutors said that the residents of Texcapilla had come “under constant threat” from the gang, which had tried to extort money from farmers.

They were summoned to a football pitch where gang members opened fire on them.

But they fought back with weapons including shotguns and machetes.

On Dec. 8th, farmers in Texcaltitlán, Mexico, armed with pistols, rifles and machetes, battled with the La Familia Michoacána cartel who had been extorting them

In retaliation, the cartel kidnapped 8 people, demanding 4 organizers of the uprising as their ransom pic.twitter.com/ttR9SZiihP

— Politsturm International (@PolitsturmInter) December 26, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2023December 28, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

An Actual War on Drugs?

On using military force against Mexican cartels

Nearly every Republican presidential candidate is now calling for direct military action against Mexican-based drug traffickers.

For a long time, Americans have seen drugs as a law-enforcement, not a military, problem. And even with military problems such as terrorism, America’s general preference is to enlist the help of local governments, militias, or political factions to do the fighting. This has been our tack with the Mexican government for years now.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2023December 24, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico

This cartel gunman meets a gruesome end at the hands of machete wielding villagers.

A clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and residents of a small farming community in central Mexico left 14 people dead and seven injured, local authorities said on Saturday.

Dramatic video of the fight on Friday posted on social media showed villagers in cowboy hats with sickles and hunting rifles chasing down suspected gang members amid bursts of automatic gunfire.

The Mexico state governor, Delfina Gómez, and other local leaders condemned the violence. They said it was a product of regional violence that has been slowly brewing for years. She assured local people that maintaining order was among her top priorities.

Attention! Convoy of the Michoacana Family came to collect a fee for planting in Texcaltitlán. The residents could not stand it any longer and confronted the criminals with machetes, stones and sticks. This left a balance of 11 dead – 8 hitmen and 3 farmers. pic.twitter.com/yytSkXkNWt

— 11☆11 (@FREEDOMWWGIWGA) December 9, 2023

Fueron a cobrar piso y acabaron besandolo.
Pobladores de la comunidad de Texcapilla en Texcaltitlán, estadodemexico México se organizaron y se enfrentaron a Sicarios de la Familia Michoacana Fm que llegaron a exigir pagos por permitir la siembra. pic.twitter.com/O7ovi5jzMo

— *(M)(A)(T)(A)(D)(O)(R)* (@Matador08640286) December 9, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•December 9, 2023December 9, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, WTF?

Eyewitness report a Mexican cartel island crawling with gang members … in Texas

In the early dawn’s orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.

They’re preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.

Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders’ instructions.

by Blazingcatfur•October 5, 2023October 5, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Sick cartel video shows gangster in skull mask lead six Mexican teens to their death

The cartel responsible for the slaughter of six innocent teenagers in Mexico filmed them being led to their deaths and sent the footage to their parents, according to local reports.

The video shows an armed cartel member in a skull mask leading the teens — ages 14 to 18 — who are dressed with black hoods over their faces obscuring their view and their hands tied behind their backs.

by Blazingcatfur•September 30, 2023September 30, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

Organised crime groups in Mexico have about 175,000 members – making them the fifth-biggest employer in the country, according to new research published in the journal Science.

Using a decade of data on homicides, missing persons and incarcerations, as well as information about interactions between rival factions, the paper published on Thursday mathematically modeled overall cartel membership, and how levels of violence would respond to a range of policies.

The authors argue that the best way to reduce the bloodshed would be to cut cartel recruitment – whereas locking up more members would actually increase the murder rate.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2023September 21, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Nine Mexican cities place among the top 10 deadliest in the world

Newly released data shows that nine Mexican cities rank among the 10 deadliest in the globe in 2022, according to World of Statistics.

The report listed the western Mexico municipality of Colima as the murder capital in the world with 181.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

The city is the second largest in the state of Colima and placed first in the list in 2021 with 196.6 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2023September 4, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

America Overrun, America Transformed

Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, by Todd Bensman, Bombardier Books, 432 pages

By the end of four years in power, the Biden administration will almost surely have admitted over 10 million illegal immigrants. Todd Bensman’s Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History is an essential book for understanding this migrant maelstrom. Reading his analysis of the unfolding border catastrophe can be wrenching, even infuriating, but conservatives need to grapple with a historic disaster, and the valuable material presented in this important book.

Overrun is a fire-bell ringing in the night. A White House that erases national borders, ignores federal laws, and refuses to expel illegal arrivals is on a mission to fundamentally change the country. While the country’s situation is dire, even desperate, Overrun also offers crucial policy fixes, most notably the need to “tear down and rebuild the American asylum system.”

h/t Kiki9

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by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2023September 1, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Bill Barr Lays Out War on Terror Playbook for Decimating Mexican Drug Cartels

Former attorney general Bill Barr believes the United States should use the lessons it learned from the War on Terror in the fight against Mexican drug cartels.

“There were 80,000 ISIS [militants] controlling a large territory in the Middle East, and we had a couple thousand special forces as well as local supporting groups such as the Kurds,” Barr told National Review in an interview. “Over time, we were able to destroy them. Now, a lot of that included bombing targets, and I’m not suggesting we do that here, but the ability to use special operations and precision operations against what are paramilitary forces will allow us to reduce them in pretty short order.”

At least the next forever war will be closer to home.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2023August 21, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

A horrific story from Mexico tells you what Biden is bringing to America

Since the day he came into office, Biden has opened America’s southern border, an illegal act that should see him not only impeached but indicted and imprisoned. But that’s not the world in which we live. We live in a world in which millions of illegal aliens stream into America, a substantial number of whom are Mexican cartel foot soldiers. That’s why you should know about the horrible deaths that five childhood friends suffered at the hands of the cartel in Jalisco, Mexico.

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2023August 18, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA, WTF?

Why bombing Mexican cartels is a bad idea

Why would what failed to work in Colombia and Afghanistan succeed in Mexico?

Responding to a voter during a campaign stop this week, Florida governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis endorsed a once fringe idea that is becoming increasingly mainstream in

Republican policy circles: that the United States has the right, indeed obligation, to use military force in Mexico to protect the American people from drug cartels.

And yes, that includes the use of US drones, a revolutionary military technology the US military and CIA have deployed repeatedly to target terrorists in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Somalia (among others).

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Anybody notice Mexico is being taken over by the military?

Mexico has a very popular socialist president whose leftist party is heading for re-election, and there’s precious little reporting on why that may be the case.

But the pieces start to pop together with a long, interesting Financial Times piece that explains what’s going on in Mexico and why Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is popular.

The short answer? AMLO’s turning his country over to the military. The Times begins its piece by focusing on how Mexico City’s main airport has become a military operation.

by Blazingcatfur•August 6, 2023August 5, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexican drug cartels are behind the surge in retail thefts

Mexican cartels are quietly expanding their global criminal empires to include mass theft operations targeting big-box stores, luxury retail brands, and small businesses, then selling the stolen goods online and laundering the profits through Chinese brokers.

The same transnational criminal organizations, known as cartels, that have facilitated the greatest-ever human smuggling operation across the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two years and simultaneously caused the fentanyl epidemic in America now have a hand in organized retail crime.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2023July 24, 2023•0•Crime, Mexican drug cartels