Mexican drug war
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- ukit
This group "La Familia" that they did raids on yesterday (including a distribution hub here in Seattle) sounds completely insane...it's weird that the media doesn't talk about it more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/2…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_…
"The La Familia members use murder and torture to quash rivals, while building a social base in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is the fastest-growing cartel in the country’s drug war and is a religious cult-like group that celebrates family values.
In one incident in Uruapan in 2006, the cartel members tossed five decapitated heads onto the dance floor of the Sol y Sombra night club along with a message that read: "The Family doesn’t kill for money. It doesn’t kill women. It doesn’t kill innocent people, only those who deserve to die. Know that this is divine justice."
- dibec0
herm.
- ukit0
Read the article Georges. It's not talking about the U.S. so much, but the drug cartels that have taken over larger parts of Mexico.
- GeorgesII0
this has been going on for ages now ukit, this is actually nothing new, its been so bad that lately most south american countries are going the way of legalization, the only thing that could actually work and cut the grass under the gang's feet.
At least they are trying,
http://www2.canada.com/victoriat…
- GeorgesII0
"In general the U. S. media treated this as a counter-intuitive move made in the midst of a full-scale war between drug cartels and the Mexican state.
But it is precisely the bloodiness of that war that has Mexico moving away from ideological prohibitionism.
The idea is to cut into demand by treating addicts as potential treatment clients rather than criminals, to fight corruption among the police by taking away one of their major tools for shaking down the poor and marginalized and to concentrate resources on organized crime."
- Sounds great but they are getting rich manufacturing meth to sell here...not as much in Mexicoukit
- hektor9110
Well, my family lives in Mexico, and just couple of days ago. There was a shootout between Mexican military and drug cartels that lasted 1 hour. Since it was close to my parents house they were able to hear about 25 grenade explosions, high caliber machine guns,the lights went, it was total chaos. These happened in one of the busiest blvds in the city.
I'll post some raw material from a shootout back in February. 1 block from an elementary school.
- ernexbcn0
yeah these narc families in the north of Mexico are pretty fucked up lately, they are fighting over the control of the zone and distribution, the nightclub event and the 5 heads is fucking real.
Recently the police also captured one guy that was in charge of dissolving bodies in acid.
- moldero0
legalize it in MX, let the americans deal with their junkies while finding the real root to the problem. "career > family"?
- ukit0
But if it's legal in Mexico...that doesn't do anything to put a dent in a group that's getting rich selling it here does it?
I mean, I'm all for legalizing some drugs but are you going to make it legal for companies to manufacture and sell hard drugs like that? Roll down to the corner store and pick up a six pack of meth?;)
- legalizing doesn't work. socially it will hurt more. people can't control it now, how the fuck will then when its okay to buy it.akrokdesign
- lol?dMullins
- moldero0
not meth or coke, but if they legalized at least their shitty pot they could use the tax $$ to help enforce the laws on the hard crap, while the cartels loose profits on 1/3 of their exports
- doesn't work. i know what your going for. there so much other stuff to the whole circle. ex. prostitution. trafficking. etc.akrokdesign
- utopian0
My beloved and trustworthy government told me that the Mexican's where a hard working, god fearing and a good people.
- moldero0
I do hand it to the cartel down here though, they don't mess with civilians, only cops and government officials who get in their way.
2 years ago when I moved down here to Culiacan it was pretty rough, remember that bank robbery scene in the movie "heat"? I would hear crap like that almost once a week. since the military took over, these guys pretty much scattered temporarily to other parts of Mexico, they will be back since Culiacan is an important route from Columbia to the US. Im hoping to be back in the US or Japan before that happens because it gets pretty nuts.
- utopian0
Just finish building that giant wall around Mexico!