EPTIt's a really good episode... (I can't find it on their website though, It's pretty recent)
Mexico's Drug War - Page 12
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It's a really good episode... (I can't find it on their website though, It's pretty recent) | ||
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![[image loading]](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/drug_tunnels/drug_tunnels_03.jpg) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stand over the entrance to a tunnel found in Otay Mesa, California. They reported that it ran for 2,400 feet under the ground. ![[image loading]](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/drug_tunnels/drug_tunnels_04.jpg) A lighting system and small cart are seen at the entrance of tunnel in Colonia Chula Vista, Mexico. With their deep pockets and powerful arsenals the cartels can afford to hire (or perhaps force) engineers with extensive tunnel-construction experience to work for them. ![[image loading]](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/drug_tunnels/drug_tunnels_05.jpg) 198 bricks of cocaine, weighing 840 pounds, were found in this tunnel discovered in Nogales. ![[image loading]](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/drug_tunnels/drug_tunnels_06.jpg) This 400-foot tunnel, equipped with lighting and supported by heavy wooden beams, reached from Mexicali, Mexico to Calexico, California. ![[image loading]](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/drug_tunnels/drug_tunnels_07.jpg) It is believed that this tunnel was used by the cartel led by the family of Ramon Arellano Felix. It had concrete floors in some sections, ventilation, electricity and a water drainage system. Source | ||
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Zaraphiston
United States26 Posts
On October 22 2010 11:44 gmonty wrote: Hey, Zaraphiston , I would be very interested in hearing how day-to-day life in Ciudad Juarez really is. The mental image you get by just following the news stream is pretty grim, like a proper war zone. Do you come in contact with violence regularly? Is it confined to certain areas and time periods of the day? Are there general precautions that everyone comply with, like staying indoors after 10 at night? When I was in Monterrey, there were a number of road block events, fire fights with grenades just outside my university, etc, but I never actually witnessed or even propely heard any of it personally. How is it up there? The life in here is pretty much routine....although a lot of times the routine gets broken by things that happen in here. You may see them, be related to them or even experience them. What I am trying to say is that, well, you are driving around and you see the police cars going at fast speed with their sirens turned on, or you get into a traffic jam because someone got killed and the cops are sweeping the place.....at times you even pass next to the crime scene, with the dead person covered with a blanket and the vehicle turned into swiss cheese (bullets). I have seen from the distance gunfights and a lot of dead people....the time I remember the most was about a year ago. I had just left my house and I was on my way to a friends house. You see, by my house there is this bridge, and there is a stoplight below the bridge. I was there in the stoplight and I had a weird feeling....it was completely silent outside. I turn to my right and I see this SUV smashed into a electric pole. Inside the vehicle, full of bullet impacts, I saw one guy dead with his face leaning to the drivers window (my direction). I didn't got scared, I just thought: "holy fuck, well, he was asking for it". About two months ago I was having a beer in a friends house, we were like 10 people and we were just talking about random things. Suddenly we hear a big BOOM and everyone is like wtf and I said..."that was a grenade". All my friends said "shut up don't said stupid things" but oh, I was correct. Seconds after the grenade a 5 minute long battle begins. It sounded like Iraq for sure, so many AK-47's and AR-15's spewing bullets. Then, another grenade blast and they left. We were all shocked. What can I say......well I even ask myself that question....what can I say? Sadly, several people that I know have been killed in this stupid drug war. Some of them were in that business, a few others were innocent. Actually, about two weeks ago one cousin of mine (kinda distant cousin) was murdered along with a girl and some other guy. Sad, but we have to continue our lives. When I drive around or party I have to always be aware of my surroundings. More than ever, everyone here feels like a defenseless animal; looking everywhere to run away if there's danger. There is always the danger present that you'll be caught in the middle of a execution attempt or some fucker with a gun will try to rob your car. On the worst cases, you can even be kidnapped. But no, it's not like in the news. No, there is not a perpetual gunfight in the streets, no, they don't kill people randomly and no, not everyone is in a perpetual state of panic. We are people who were lucky enough to live in the most important port of departure for narcotics in the whole world. You have to know the facts. Drugtrafficking used to be a major force in the development of the city in previous years (positively) and that's why many people didn't care or took much action about it. Now we are paying the consequences; both for our acts and the ceaseless hunger of drugs of the US. | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101023/capt.6b3bdf88bde64505b3c39830b439dc47-6b3bdf88bde64505b3c39830b439dc47-0.jpg?x=400&y=265&q=85&sig=wMcR6pLTaQtqHDl3AcGoIQ--) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen stormed two homes and massacred 13 young partygoers in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments. Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class neighborhood late Friday and opened fire on about three dozen youths attending a party. The dead identified so far were 16 to 25 years old, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said Saturday in a statement. Fifteen were wounded, including a 9-year-old boy. Police found 70 bullet casings from assault weapons typically used by drug gangs whose bloody turf battles have killed more than 2,000 people this year in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Source | ||
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ZerglingSoup
United States346 Posts
On October 22 2010 10:45 Jayme wrote: Actually there would be no supply chain. Or at the very least a small one. Pot is cry easy to home grow. Cartel profits would take a catastrophic nose dive and to believe otherwise is ignorant. I'm actually not referring to pot. Legalize pot if you want, but the effects on cartel profits would hardly be catastrophic. Most of the cannabis supply around here is local anyway. A Rand study estimated California's legalization bill would only cut supply by 2%-4%. Source. I've just seen some posts in this thread that seem to suggest that legalizing all forms of narcotics would solve Mexico's problems. I would argue that this is hardly the case and not the more reasonable or preferable scenario vs working to decrease our own consumption. | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20101023/i/r667310672.jpg?x=400&y=259&q=85&sig=mjr3jofcAXkPqvvPworcrA--) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico on Sunday. The victims were a 14-year-old boy and two women aged 18 and 47, according to a statement by the prosecutors' office in northern Coahuila state. The statement said gunmen traveling in two vehicles opened fire on a convoy of federal police and soldiers in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. The officers and soldiers returned fire. Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20101027/capt.photo_1288219303161-1-0.jpg?x=400&y=279&q=85&sig=D00tmd0tFgxGQm5XVbz.fg--) MEXICO CITY (AFP) – A gruesome drug war opposing dueling cartels is taking record numbers of victims in Mexico, where a third massacre in less than a week killed 15 recovering addicts working at a car wash Wednesday. Around 100 people were killed across the country since last weekend. A nationwide crackdown that saw President Felipe Calderon deploy 50,000 troops has so far failed to stem the bloodletting that has killed some 28,000 victims in nearly three years. Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101028/capt.9d96f68462c54b189719219e907d3012-9d96f68462c54b189719219e907d3012-0.jpg?x=400&y=277&q=85&sig=BokjgT.TSPTJ3z7bHrPzKA--) MEXICO CITY – Armed men rumbled into a gritty neighborhood of the Mexican capital Thursday and gunned down six men hanging around a convenience store, fueling fears that one of the world's largest cities is falling prey to the cartel-style violence that has long terrorized other parts of the country. More than 50 people have been killed in the past week in five apparently unrelated massacres, including four shot Thursday near the border city of Ciudad Juarez. But the Mexico City shooting has raised alarm among residents about a drug war that has long seemed distant. Source | ||
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday. Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11 a.m., Sandoval said. Sandoval said authorities also identified a 24-year-old woman killed Friday inside a tortilla shop as Lorena Izaguirre, a U.S. citizen and El Paso resident. A Mexican man was also found dead in the store. Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101103/capt.0f196129538a4209a8f06307e222c488-0f196129538a4209a8f06307e222c488-0.jpg?x=400&y=275&q=85&sig=lQRZW5Cg.nbBSmDwl3zqjw--) ACAPULCO, Mexico – Police recovered 18 bodies Wednesday in a mass grave identified in a narco-video as the burial site for 20 men who were kidnapped a month ago in the Pacific coast city of Acapulco. Fernando Monreal, investigative police chief for Guerrero state, had reported earlier that 19 bodies were removed, but he said Wednesday night that investigators miscounted the badly decomposed bodies. Police did not yet know if the bodies found in the grave in Tres Palos, a town just south of Acapulco, were those of the men abducted Sept. 30 while visiting the resort city from neighboring Michoacan state, Monreal said. Source | ||
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Brilliant job as usually, government. | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20101103/i/r327675999.jpg?x=400&y=265&q=85&sig=jxM3ZTliimwDqfp4dbzfYw--) SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) – U.S. border police have found a sophisticated drug smugglers' tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and arrested two people, authorities said on Wednesday. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said the tunnel ran between warehouses in Otay Mesa, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. It measured 1,800 feet and was equipped with a rail system, lighting and ventilation. Agents recovered more than 25 metric tons of marijuana in seizures related to the investigation in both California and Mexico and arrested a U.S. citizen and his Mexican wife. Source | ||
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – U.S. consular officials on Thursday said that both Texas university students killed in Ciudad Juarez earlier this week were U.S. citizens, bringing the number of Americans slain in the violent border city to six in as many days. Officials had earlier confirmed that one of the dead University of Texas at El Paso students was an American, 23-year-old Eder Diaz. The U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the other UTEP student, Manuel Acosta, also was also a U.S. citizen. The two were attacked Tuesday by gunmen who opened fire on their car. Acosta, 25, was killed at the scene, while Diaz died early Wednesday at a Juarez hospital. Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101106/capt.6070fe07778e4253a11a0f470b833db1-905ec381ac7a44cb9414387d5e5dd8a4-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=ZcyTSI31cUW3mOGIyFx2TQ--) MEXICO CITY – Mexican security forces killed reputed Gulf cartel leader Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, in a spectacular, hours-long gunbattle Friday in the northern border city of Matamoros. Cardenas Guillen, also known as "Tony Tormenta" or "Tony the Storm," is the brother of imprisoned former leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen and is the latest in a growing number of high-profile cartel leaders who have been captured or killed by the armed forces President Felipe Calderon has stationed throughout the country to battle drug traffickers. The clashes Friday across the border from Brownsville, Texas, also claimed the lives of four gunmen and three marines, according to the Mexican navy, and caused mayhem late into the night. Source | ||
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