Mexico's Drug War - Page 8

On April 04 2010 23:38 baal wrote:


Except that in the period that Somalia was anarchist it had an unprecedented growth in its economy, healthcare, education and pretty much every aspect,

There is also evidence that Luna was responsible for killing six members of the Mexican Army and was the perpetrator of an attack against the secretariat of public security in the municipality of Escobedo, in Coahuila state, near the Texas border, and the subsequent attack on the then-secretary of public safety, retired general Hermelindo Lara Cruz.

The military also arrested one of Luna's accomplices, David Eduardo Fuentes Martinez, known by the aliases "El Chile" and "El Mantequilla," who was carrying an array of weapons, including a 55 mm Barrett rifle, commonly used for piercing through shields and other materials, said Notimex.

On June 16 2010 02 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              16 2010 02      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:44 Grettin wrote:
I haven't read the whole thread, so i apologize if this has been posted already, but if not, worth bumping the thread.


http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=133200&p=3&topicID=35778276


Some insane stuff going on in there. God's sake they have shitloads of guns and money.

On June 28 2010 09:13 Piy wrote:
Full scale legalization of Drugs and Prostitution has the following effects:

Legalized drugs = Taxable and therefore less of drain on health care + quality control + Less warring between gangs over markets + less problems with traffiking + no spending on anti drug enforcement.

This leads to cheaper drugs, so crime is also eliminated on a micro level as well as a macro level. Prostitution is also less necessary as drugs are cheaper.

Legalized Prostitution = safer working environment + taxable + less stigma + less STD's going round

Absolutely no logical argument against this other than it's sinful, which is something that most governments are beyond by now anyway...Seriously, think of another reason it's bad? disregarding sex traffiking, which is hardly in great shape now.

Drugs cost pennies to make, and its the crime that makes them expensive and it is this cost that creates every drug crime problem there is.



Trade off for legalization? You have maybe some more addicts, but all of them live in vastly better conditions and are constantly within the system since they need to be to continue acquiring drugs and are therefore more exposed to governmental help.



Arresting farmers in Columbia who grow coca leaves is doing nothing, neither is shutting down drug labs. All lowering the supply does is drive the price up further, leading to all the above problems.

Problem solved tbh. But they'll never fix it.

This is a video of a reporter that was reporting on a gun fight outside a mall in Reynosa,Tamaulipas.
You can hear the machine guns and other heavier armor in the background. It was a gun battle between Fedaral police and mafia. Later soldiers arrived to help Federal Police. A few mafiosos died and so did policemen. It sounds like the middle of a war zone.

On June 16 2010 02 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              16 2010 02      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:44 Grettin wrote:
I haven't read the whole thread, so i apologize if this has been posted already, but if not, worth bumping the thread.


http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=133200&p=3&topicID=35778276


Some insane stuff going on in there. God's sake they have shitloads of guns and money.

On June 28 2010 09:13 Piy wrote:

Drugs cost pennies to make, and its the crime that makes them expensive and it is this cost that creates every drug crime problem there is.

On June 28 2010 17:08 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
That last vid is such bullshit.

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/buenosaires/PDFs/Closure.pdf


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Also the Sheriff being interviewed is nowhere near the border so in affect he is lying.

MEXICO CITY – The front-running candidate for governor in the violence-wracked border state of Tamaulipas was assassinated Monday, the first killing of a Mexican gubernatorial candidate in recent memory.

Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont suggested the killing of candidate Rodolfo Torre of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was the work of warring drug cartels whose battles have caused hundreds of deaths in recent months in the Gulf coast state.

"These events reinforce the need to combat organized crime on all fronts," Gomez Mont told a news conference. He refused to take questions.

Gunmen ambushed Torre's vehicle as he headed to a campaign event near the state capital, Ciudad Victoria. At least four other people traveling with him were killed.

MEXICO CITY — The drug-cartel enforcer told an unsettling story: A woman who worked in the Mexican border's biggest U.S. consulate had helped a rival gang obtain American visas. And for that, the enforcer said, he ordered her killed.

Nonsense, says a U.S. official, who said Friday the motive for the slaying remains unknown.

The employee, Lesley Enriquez, and two other people connected to the U.S. consulate in the city of Ciudad Juarez were killed March 13 in attacks that raised concerns that Americans were being caught up in drug-related border violence.

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced Friday, confessed to ordering the killings, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police. Pequeno said Chavez leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel.