Mexico's Drug War - Page 22

On May 01 2011 11:48 NoobSkills wrote:
The point of this thread is? No offense by that, but I'm not sure the direction you want to go.

Mexico is rather poor. The best way to make $ is to sell drugs. The reason it isn't stopped is because people in the government claim to be against it, but don't act like their pockets aren't thicker because of bribes. It is really unfortunate and nobody can stop people from buying drugs, but there can be a good effort to stop those selling/growing/transporting drugs. As far as I'm concerned the proof is the 10 Million illegals in the US. If MEX was stopping people from coming in (i personally don't mind them coming) but checking for drugs ect they wouldn't have this problem. Drugs in mexico are cheap if they can't get them accross the boarder it suddenly doesn't become a good business. Up to the MEX govt to stop this as well as the US. 3000 Mile long boarder practically unguarded that when crossed leads to a large source of untaxable income.

TOLUCA, Mexico – Police in the suburbs of Mexico City found a total of five decapitated bodies on Tuesday accompanied by written messages of the kind frequently left by drug gangs.

The bodies were found at two sites in Mexico state, which surrounds the capital. While Mexico City has been spared most of the country's drug violence, executions have occurred in communities just outside it.

Mexico state chief prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says four of the bodies were found in a compact car. Their heads were also found in or around the vehicle.

Another decapitated body was found Tuesday in another suburb in two plastic bags. At both sites police found messages signed "HCC," an apparent reference to a drug gang.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors in the northern state of Durango announced that six more sets of skeletal remains had been found in continuing excavations at mass graves, bringing the total number of bodies found in a month-long search of the sites to about 110.

On May 02 2011 07:58 sermokala wrote:


Really? so we should just let crack meth and any and all of the drug cartels, gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs to just sell openly in the streets? beacuse that won't cause any problems in our society at all.

On May 04 2011 14:25 ThumperSD wrote:

I bet you didnt know Portugal found that after they legalized all drugs, drug use did not go up, in the long term.

Prohibition may or may not be the answer. It was not the answer in Portugal but it has worked well in Japan and Singapore.

On May 02 2011 07:58 sermokala wrote:


Really? so we should just let crack meth and any and all of the drug cartels, gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs to just sell openly in the streets? beacuse that won't cause any problems in our society at all.

CUERNAVACA, Mexico – More than 600 people led by a Mexican poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers set off on a march Thursday from the resort city of Cuernavaca to Mexico City to protest the country's unrelenting gang violence.

The group carrying signs reading "Stop the War," Mexican flags and photos of poet Javier Sicilia's slain son began marching Thursday. They are expected to arrive in Mexico City's Zocalo square Sunday.

The group hopes more people will join the silent march along the 50-mile (80-kilometer) route.

Sicilia's son Juan Francisco was killed March 28 along with six other people. Three alleged cartel members have been arrested in the slayings.

Mexico's drug war has claimed more than 34,600 lives since December 2006.

In a statement Thursday, Calderon's office expressed "its respect for the march ... and each and every person who is participating in it."

The march "revitalizes citizen action as a fundamental means for overcoming inertia and promoting the decisive actions and changes our country needs on fundamental issues like security and justice," it said.

MEXICO CITY – Mexico sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police to a drug-violence plagued northern region Friday, the same day cartel gunmen fired on a military convoy with a grenade launcher and hit a bus carrying employees of a U.S.-owned assembly plant.

The attack on the army convoy underscored the growing boldness of Mexico's drug cartels.

The army said attackers believed to be working for the Zetas cartel opened fire on the army vehicles with guns and a grenade launcher from a highway overpass on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey. One soldier and five people in passing vehicles were wounded, and one attacker was killed, the Defense Department said.

The statement said the bus hit in the attack was transporting employees of the Montoi company, a branch of U.S.-based toy maker Mattel Inc. It was not clear if company employees were among the injured.

As the attackers fled in several vehicles, soldiers pursued and killed one suspect and captured two others, one of them a woman who was wounded in the gunfight, the military said.

MEXICO CITY – Mexican marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead, the navy said Monday.

Investigators in a different northern state reported finding 11 decapitated bodies.

One marine and 12 suspected gunmen of the Zetas drug cartel were killed in the battle Sunday on Falcon Lake in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the navy said in a statement.

The navy said the gunmen opened fire first when the marines discovered the camp, which the gang is believed to have used as a launching point for smuggling marijuana into Texas by speedboat. Marines seized more than 20 guns after the shootout, including several assault rifles.

Falcon Lake, a dammed section of the Rio Grande, is where U.S. citizen David Hartley was presumably chased and gunned down by pirates Sept. 30. His body has not been found and Mexican investigators have reported no leads in the case.

MEXICO CITY – The bodies of eight decapitated men were dumped Thursday along roads in Durango, a drug-gang-plagued northern Mexican state already grappling with the horror of discovering mass graves where 196 corpses have been unearthed so far.

Six of the naked bodies were found along a highway leading out of the state capital of Durango city, their heads lying nearby, according to a statement from the state attorney general's office.

The two other bodies were found in another city street. One was identified as the remains of Gerardo Galindo Meza, the deputy director of a city prison who had been kidnapped Monday. Galindo's head was on a different street corner, accompanied by a threatening message signed by a drug gang, the statement said.

It was the second time this week that beheaded bodies have been found in Durango state. Eleven corpses were found Monday, including six left across from a middle school in the capital. Investigators have announced no arrests or possible motives.

Durango is one of Mexico's most dangerous states, a drug cartel cradle where some of the most notorious kingpins are believed to be hiding. Homicides have more than doubled in the vast, mountainous state over the last two years amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Zetas gangs.

MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said.

Gilberto Barragan Balderas "is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel" and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Ramon Pequeno, head of anti-drug operations for the federal police.

Barragan Balderas was allegedly in charge of the cartel's operations in Miguel Aleman, across the border from Roma, Texas. Police captured him at a party at a ranch near another border city, Reynosa, which is across from McAllen, Texas.

Police said the party was apparently in honor of Barragan Balderas' May 19 birthday. Two alleged associates were also arrested in the raid, which also netted an assault rifle and three pistols.

No formal charges had been filed against any of the suspects.

Barragan Balderas, 41, is wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States under a 2008 indictment.

On May 02 2011 10:52 Golgotha wrote:
lol....90 percent of guns of the cartels are coming from the US. but you know what...the more these druggies kill and the more atrocities they commit...the more they will feel the wrath of Mexico's native citizens. Yeah, the druggies are bat shit crazy...but I bet some of the folks in the police force are bat shit crazier cuz they lost their entire family to the cartels.

MEXICO CITY – Forget "get out of jail free" cards. Prosecutors said Monday they have detained 16 policemen who allegedly took bribes to protect members of a drug gang who carried specially marked cards to avoid detention.

Authorities said some of the officers from a town on the outskirts of Mexico City were paid to warn members of a gang known as "The Hand with Eyes" about impending raids by other police forces.

"In some cases, the suspect police acknowledged that the gang, in order not to be detained or taken to jail, would show a card that had an exclusive design and that identified them as members of the drug distribution network," said Alfredo Castillo, chief prosecutor for Mexico State, which borders Mexico City.

Other officers were allegedly paid to be on the lookout for the gang's rivals and even protect the gang's leaders.

Castillo said the corrupt police officers received payments of 1,500 to 5,000 pesos ($125 to $425) each time they helped, but they had a strange code of ethics: Some would accept only drugs and not cash in payment for their services.

On May 21 2011 14:49 kunstderfugue wrote:


There is issues with policemen in mexico, and the root i think is that they are underpaid. This means that policemen only care about getting more money, most of the time shoving it off from citizens who commit minor infringements to the laws.

On May 24 2011 17:55 Onieh wrote:
I fear these 'drugwars' will only stop when people stop using drugs.