http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/mexicos_drug_war.html
there's some crazy stuff happening down there right now.....discuss...
there's some crazy stuff happening down there right now.....discuss...
Mexico's Drug Wars in pictures
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Mexico is pretty crazy right now, you have groups like Los Zetas which are basically run like a SWAT team fighting against the mexican government.
As long as there's huge demand for drugs and weapons there will always be people to supply it. Almost all of the drugs coming to america right now has blood on it and americans are financing this war. Legalizing drugs would improve the situation, but that will never happen and the cartels would probably just move on to kidnapping and extortion.
This is a pretty good article : http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26435119/the_making_of_a_narco_state
As long as there's huge demand for drugs and weapons there will always be people to supply it. Almost all of the drugs coming to america right now has blood on it and americans are financing this war. Legalizing drugs would improve the situation, but that will never happen and the cartels would probably just move on to kidnapping and extortion.
This is a pretty good article : http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26435119/the_making_of_a_narco_state
^^ All the times I have driven across the Mexican/US border have been a huge joke on both sides. I go through 10x more shit at the Canadian border. I have driven across the Mexican border and back 8 times (4 times each way) and have yet to even be asked to show my ID let alone a passport, birth certificate, anything in my car, etc.
$2m bounty placed on heads of Mexican drug lords
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5963771.ece
Wanted: the 24 men who have turned Mexico into one of the most unstable and violent countries in the world.
Personal details of the two dozen leaders of Mexico’s major drug cartels – along with a promised reward of $2 million (£1.4 million) apiece for information resulting in arrests – were published yesterday by the Mexican Government.
An additional $1 million apiece was offered for information leading to the capture of the drug lords’ 13 top lieutenants.
Some of the men on the list, such as JoaquÍn Guzman and Ismael Zamabada, are already targeted by $5 million reward offers from the US Government.
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Endemic corruption within Mexico’s political class and law enforcement organisations has made direct action against the cartel chiefs highly risky for anyone who dares take part in it. Widespread despair within Mexico over a drugs war that has left 8,000 dead over two years, coupled with a determination by the new Obama Administration to launch a surge against the cartels, appears to have prompted action.
The wanted list – published by the Attorney-General’s office – revealed that amid intense pressure from the military, Mexico’s two major drug gangs, the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, have splintered into six factions including former subsidiary groups such as the Pacific cartel and La Familia. Its publication comes before visits to Mexico City by various Cabin-et-level members of the Obama Administration, including Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, and Eric Holder, the Attorney-General. It also follows a Pentagon report that named Mexico as a potential failed-state, similar to Pakistan, that could represent the worst security threat to the US in 25 years.
The crisis in Mexico began two years ago when President Calderón began to take military action against the country’s drug lords. The troubles intensified when criminals once dependent on drugs for their livelihood turned to other crime, with Mexico City quickly becoming the “kidnapping capital” of the world.
The breakdown of law and order made international headlines as the bodies of tortured and beheaded cartel members were discovered almost daily, grenades were thrown into a crowd on Independence Day, and firefights broke out in border towns and villages. The US pledged $1.4 billion of aid and Mr Calderón deployed 45,000 troops and 5,000 federal police.
Violence from the drugs war has been spilling over into the US: Phoenix, Arizona, has reported 700 kidnappings over the past two years, mostly related to human smugglers trying to extort money from their clients.
President Obama’s “surge”, details of which are likely to be revealed this week, is expected to include moving federal agents and special equipment – including vehicle weighing-scales and automated number plate reading devices – to the Mexican border.
Mr Obama, who will travel to Mexico City for a summit with Mr Calderón on April 16, said this month that he was also considering deploying the National Guard to the border. The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has requested that a thousand soldiers be posted in his state as a precaution.
Cost of the war
- 6,000 killed in Mexico last year
- 40,000 troops deployed in two years
- $60bn of Mexican drugs estimated to be traded a year
- 90% of cocaine circulating in the US is supplied by Mexican cartels
- 1,466,000 kilograms of marijuana and 9,972kg of cocaine seized along the southwest border of the US in 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5963771.ece
Wanted: the 24 men who have turned Mexico into one of the most unstable and violent countries in the world.
Personal details of the two dozen leaders of Mexico’s major drug cartels – along with a promised reward of $2 million (£1.4 million) apiece for information resulting in arrests – were published yesterday by the Mexican Government.
An additional $1 million apiece was offered for information leading to the capture of the drug lords’ 13 top lieutenants.
Some of the men on the list, such as JoaquÍn Guzman and Ismael Zamabada, are already targeted by $5 million reward offers from the US Government.
Related Links
Mexican drug violence spills over into US
Drug gangs make Africa the new smuggling hub
50 dead in seven days in Mexico's drugs war
Endemic corruption within Mexico’s political class and law enforcement organisations has made direct action against the cartel chiefs highly risky for anyone who dares take part in it. Widespread despair within Mexico over a drugs war that has left 8,000 dead over two years, coupled with a determination by the new Obama Administration to launch a surge against the cartels, appears to have prompted action.
The wanted list – published by the Attorney-General’s office – revealed that amid intense pressure from the military, Mexico’s two major drug gangs, the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, have splintered into six factions including former subsidiary groups such as the Pacific cartel and La Familia. Its publication comes before visits to Mexico City by various Cabin-et-level members of the Obama Administration, including Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, and Eric Holder, the Attorney-General. It also follows a Pentagon report that named Mexico as a potential failed-state, similar to Pakistan, that could represent the worst security threat to the US in 25 years.
The crisis in Mexico began two years ago when President Calderón began to take military action against the country’s drug lords. The troubles intensified when criminals once dependent on drugs for their livelihood turned to other crime, with Mexico City quickly becoming the “kidnapping capital” of the world.
The breakdown of law and order made international headlines as the bodies of tortured and beheaded cartel members were discovered almost daily, grenades were thrown into a crowd on Independence Day, and firefights broke out in border towns and villages. The US pledged $1.4 billion of aid and Mr Calderón deployed 45,000 troops and 5,000 federal police.
Violence from the drugs war has been spilling over into the US: Phoenix, Arizona, has reported 700 kidnappings over the past two years, mostly related to human smugglers trying to extort money from their clients.
President Obama’s “surge”, details of which are likely to be revealed this week, is expected to include moving federal agents and special equipment – including vehicle weighing-scales and automated number plate reading devices – to the Mexican border.
Mr Obama, who will travel to Mexico City for a summit with Mr Calderón on April 16, said this month that he was also considering deploying the National Guard to the border. The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has requested that a thousand soldiers be posted in his state as a precaution.
Cost of the war
- 6,000 killed in Mexico last year
- 40,000 troops deployed in two years
- $60bn of Mexican drugs estimated to be traded a year
- 90% of cocaine circulating in the US is supplied by Mexican cartels
- 1,466,000 kilograms of marijuana and 9,972kg of cocaine seized along the southwest border of the US in 2007
ALL THIS SHIT STARDED WHEN THE FUCKEN U.S.A GAVE MEXICO 600 MILLION DOLLARS IF THEY GO TO WAR WITH THE TRAFFIKERS.EVERY THING WUZ GOOD BEFORE I GUESS U.S.A GOT IT OUT FOR MEXICANS LIKE THEY DO FOR IRAQ,AGHANISTAN,PALESTINE,AFRICA NOW MEXICO LETZ MAKE THEM ALL KILL EACH OTHER.THEY MAD CUZ MEXICO WUZ COMING UP FAT! WIT DRUG MONEY ALL THOSE DOLLARS WERE GOING TO THE MEXICAN PEOPLE POCKETS. USA GOT MAD CUZ IT WASENT THERE FUCKEN POCKETZ.