Mexico's Drug War - Page 45

On March 17 2013 10:47 Arnstein wrote:


Isn't legalizing drugs and then outselling the cartels a much better idea?

On March 17 2013 21:48 Cloud9157 wrote:


You want to legalize some of the most addicting and destructive drugs known to the world? You must have a death wish for this country. Allowing people to get their hands on drugs like heroin will be a catastrophe.

On March 17 2013 21:48 Cloud9157 wrote:


You want to legalize some of the most addicting and destructive drugs known to the world? You must have a death wish for this country. Allowing people to get their hands on drugs like heroin will be a catastrophe.

On March 17 2013 21:54 HunterX11 wrote:


People already do get their hands on them, and it is a catastrophe. That's the problem.

On March 17 2013 22:07 Cloud9157 wrote:


So allowing them to be purchased with little difficulty is better? You're eliminating "competition" at the cost of more access to these drugs.

On March 17 2013 22:07 Cloud9157 wrote:


So allowing them to be purchased with little difficulty is better? You're eliminating "competition" at the cost of more access to these drugs.

On March 18 2013 04:57 Alala-P wrote:
My personal opinion, just do what they've done in singapore.

less addicts and less drugs its a win win. instead of legalising and having to deal with the consequences.

On March 18 2013 05:01 OuchyDathurts wrote:


Yes, mandatory death penalties and life imprisonment, amazing ideas. I don't think we have enough people in prison in the US!

On March 17 2013 21:48 Cloud9157 wrote:


You want to legalize some of the most addicting and destructive drugs known to the world? You must have a death wish for this country. Allowing people to get their hands on drugs like heroin will be a catastrophe.

On March 17 2013 17:30 JudicatorHammurabi wrote:

THEIR drugs still come in. It just makes business a lot easier for them, which empowers them further. You're imagining that the cartels would suddenly lose out to someone else. No, they would adapt and keep their monopoly.

Killing them off is not a stupid solution. You don't defeat a problem by pulling out a couple weeds. That doesn't solve anything at all. Complete elimination is the resolution. Only by completely wiping them out in one fell swoop and restoring Mexican government can any future cartels be nipped right as they are budding. Taking out a couple while the rest thrive accomplishes nothing, since other cartels still exist to fill in the gap, or facilitate the growth of growing ones. That's why wrecking Medellin and Cali did nothing.

The bodies of seven men, all shot in the head as if executed, were found dumped in plastic chairs placed along the side of a street in the Mexican state of Michoacan, authorities have said.

Michoacan's attorney general's office said in a statement on Saturday that the victims had all been shot in the head and placed individually in the sitting position in chairs near a traffic circle in the city of Uruapan.

A placard nailed to one of the bodies with an ice pick reads: "Warning! This will happen to thieves, kidnappers, sex offenders and extortionists".

The office did not provide a motive for the killings.

It comes after seven people were killed in neighbouring Guerrero state when armed men opened fire in a bar in Ciudad Altamirano on Friday evening.

Four civilians and three off-duty federal agents were among those killed.

On March 18 2013 06:07 iamthedave wrote:


America can't afford that war. It'd get ugly fast, and there'd be a lot of dead soldiers equally as fast, and the war would become unpopular even faster. Not to mention that trying to get all of them would demand guerilla warfare on an unprecedented scale and be rife with the potential for civilian casualties, since the cartels are - obviously - entrenched in ordinary society.

Oh yeah, and there'd just be something new to replace them.

So long as people in America want drugs, there'll be someone in Mexico prepared to sell it to them.

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

Members of the area's self-described "community police" say more than 1,500 members of the force were stopping traffic Wednesday at improvised checkpoints in the town of Tierra Colorado, which sits on the highway connecting Mexico City to Acapulco. They arrested 12 police and the former director of public security in the town after a leader of the state's vigilante movement was slain on Monday.

A tourist heading to the beach with relatives was slightly wounded Tuesday after they refused to stop at a roadblock and vigilantes fired shots at their car, officials said.

The vigilantes accuse the ex-security director of participating in the killing of vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal, 28, on behalf of local organized crime groups and dumping his body in a nearby town on Monday. They reported seizing several high-powered rifles from his car, and vigilantes were seen toting a number of sophisticated assault rifles on Wednesday, although it was not clear if all had been taken from the ex-security director's car.

"We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

Placido said vigilantes had searched a number of homes in the town and seized drugs from some. They turned over the ex-security director and police officers to state prosecutors, who agreed to investigate their alleged ties to organized crime.

The growing movement of "self-defense" vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of "suspects" wanted for crimes like theft and extortion.

At least seven people have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, which has seen a resurgence in drug-related violence in recent weeks.

The man, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, killed four men on Friday night who were customers in the bar in Chihuahua state as well as three women who worked there, said a spokesman for the state attorney general's office.

"It has not been determined whether the attack is connected to drug trafficking, but by the type of weapon involved, it is to be assumed," said the spokesman, Carlos Gonzalez.

The attack occurred in the city of Chihuahua, the capital of the state that is also home to Ciudad Juarez, considered one of the most violent cities in the world until recently.

The attacker entered the bar with his face covered by a bandana, said the spokesman.

Chihuahua has seen heavy fighting between the local Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who is seeking to control the city that is one of the main routes for trafficking drugs into the United States.

On March 18 2013 05:01 OuchyDathurts wrote:


Yes, mandatory death penalties and life imprisonment, amazing ideas. I don't think we have enough people in prison in the US!