Mexico's Drug War - Page 55

On November 21 2014 07:51 Sermokala wrote:
I wonder if its time to consider american Military intervention into Mexico.

On November 23 2014 04:02 StorrZerg wrote:
in the past page, there was a bunch of picture posts about the protests.

"4.I dont know where was this but its awesome"

#4, could someone explain whats going on? I get that they are burning something, but i don't know what the importance of it is, or what it is.

The Navy Secretariat has denied a story published in The Wall Street Journal that claimed that U.S. law enforcement personnel were participating in operations targeting drug cartels in Mexico.

"We categorically deny that American authorities or those from any other country have participated with Mexican navy personnel in tactical operations in the field against organized crime utilizing Mexican uniforms and arms," the secretariat said in a statement.

The U.S. business newspaper reported Saturday that U.S. Justice Department personnel regularly participated in operations targeting drug traffickers while using Mexican uniforms and firearms.

The secret missions were agreed to by high-level U.S. Marshals Service officials and Mexican marine corps commanders, and are approved at the highest levels of Mexico's government.

The missions are not without risk, the newspaper said.

On November 23 2014 13:45 StorrZerg wrote:
i mean i get the general grasp of whats going on, i was meaning more specifically as to what they are burning.. in that picture specifically.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The normally bucolic, vacationer-crowded state at the tip of Mexico's Baja peninsula has become a battleground, with dozens of killings in a power struggle following the capture of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman nearly a year ago.

The bloodshed has been concentrated in La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur state. In the latest killings, two men bound, gagged and showing signs of torture were dumped onto streets in exclusive neighborhoods Sunday and another person was found shot to death Tuesday.

The local newspaper El Sudcaliforniano, which puts the mounting death toll in each headline on stories about violence, has reported 46 homicides in and around the city so far this year. That doesn't include the apparent shooting victim on a La Paz sidewalk Tuesday. Federal statistics through October counted 48 killings for the entire state.

Baja California Sur is better known for its beaches and Los Cabos resorts that draw thousands of American tourists. But since last year it has experienced a level of drug violence it had previously been spared.

Many of the cases have been gangland style killings, victims bound, shot, strangled or burned inside a car. Mexican authorities say it is the result of a battle for control of the drug trade since Guzman's February arrest and several other high-profile takedowns in the past year of leadership in Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel.

A law enforcement official, who could not be quoted by name because of security reasons, told The Associated Press in October that criminal factions were competing for power. "It appears they're still working out how all this is going to fit together," he said.

It is not clear why the war among factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, named for the Pacific coast state where it was founded, had jumped the Gulf of California to Baja California Sur. But the cartel long battled the once-powerful Arellano Felix gang for control of drug routes on the Baja peninsula into the U.S. and is largely considered to have taken over the territory. Some of Sinaloa's biggest marijuana growing and warehousing operations have been found in Baja California Norte state close to the U.S. border, under which the cartel has built elaborate undergroundtunnels for smuggling.

The law enforcement official said a new generation was stepping forward that included the sons of Guzman and Sinaloa boss Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

On November 27 2014 13:52 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Every day that passes it's nice to know that Peña Nieto hasn't yet succumbed to the strategy of Gustavo Ordaz and responded in the same style when students protested.