How the Sinaloa Cartel
Bested the Mexican Army
Time,
by
Ioan Grillo
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/20/2019 5:25:04 AM
In Mexico’s big cities, drug cartel gunmen normally act like phantoms. They hide in safe houses or amid communities, suddenly striking with an assassination or a gunfight, and then disappearing again. Residents know they are there and are scared, but most the time, they can’t see them.
But on Thursday in the Sinaloan city of Culiacan, the cartel gunmen were everywhere. They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their Kalashnikovs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like it was a scene in Syria. They took control of the strategic points in the metro area, shut down the airport, roads, and government buildings
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 10/20/2019 8:05:44 AM (No. 212378)
Agree, Mexico needs to be treated like Iran considering what is going on there.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/20/2019 8:24:06 AM (No. 212396)
Mexico doesn't have a Government. They are run by the cartels.
Their army as well as their police forces are a joke.
It's no wonder so many people want to leave.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
StormCnter 10/20/2019 8:30:07 AM (No. 212405)
I grieve for Mexico. We only hear about the cartels and the government corruption, but the country is full of good people struggling to survive among the violence. I've spent many happy days and weeks traveling all over Mexico but I know it will never be possible to visit again. The Mexico I knew and loved is no more.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 10/20/2019 8:37:20 AM (No. 212415)
There’s not enough moral courage in the Mexican police and military to fight the cartels anywhere. It’s a hellish mess down there. Mexico needs a ruthless leader with an iron jaw
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 10/20/2019 8:42:45 AM (No. 212419)
I think we will need are troop's to secure our own border,not Syrian border.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PostAway 10/20/2019 8:58:10 AM (No. 212439)
Since it is obvious that the Democrat party is a criminal enterprise with a penchant for open borders, toleration of foreign-based gangs throughout the US, advocacy for alien criminals, toleration for illegal drugs that cause wartime rates of casualties and deaths inside the US, etc., etc., is it any wonder that they need to get rid of a President who might expose them? Why have Hillary, Warren, Harris, Schiff, Pelosi, Biden, Obama and many more made a habit of projecting their sins onto their political opponent? Is it a mental disorder or a tactic akin to, “Look! Wild geese!” Why do the Democrats in Cook County ignore thousands of murders every year? Why does the media? If politics is noble why do so many Democrat-run cities rot while their representatives get rich? Maybe the US is at least knee-deep in the muck of international drug cartels and other gangs and Democrats (and RINO’s too) plan to divert, accuse, run kangaroo courts so it can get worse.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GO3 10/20/2019 9:02:06 AM (No. 212442)
A portion of cartel forces are made up of Mexican army deserters who bring their weapons with them. It's a rogue state and should be treated as such. Meanwhile USNORTHCOM hosts Mexican army (?) generals on exchanges to the US. This is low hanging fruit for the new SecDef to stop this nonsense.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/20/2019 9:10:45 AM (No. 212450)
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, we had some really fine trips in Mexico. My sister and her husband lived in Nogales, Arizona so it was easy to hop across the border and take road trips into the interior. The people there were great and the family unit was strong. Children, in the eyes of their parents, walked on water and were the most precious thing parents could have and they raised their children the right way. Everyone went to church.
At that time, the drug cartels to the extent they existed, were invisible. But, in the late 1980s and into the1990s, things changed...quickly. Violent crime on both sides of the border went off the scale as the growing cartels began to compete for power. Really bad violence that makes today's beheadings in the middle east look like nothing, Kashoggi style. Today, the governments there and the military serve only as puppets. And the citizens who had the misfortune of being born along the US border are no more than societal mummies. And now we see that isis is operating training camps along the Texas/Mexico border with the largest facility just south of El Paso.
This is why Mexico never made it into the international market place. Grillo's account of how the cartels security forces assembled out of the blue to rescue Guzman, attacked, killed, and scared off the Mexican army, then slipped back into the population is accurate. The cartels have made it abundantly and always make it abundantly clear...leave us alone and everything will be fine. Don't leave us alone and gorilla-war hell on earth is a coming.
It is not safe for Americans to be along the border. You may be fine at the Cancun resorts, but, don't stray away from the tourist strips especially alone. We will never set foot in Mexico again.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/20/2019 9:26:00 AM (No. 212478)
And Obie's Fast and Furious gun-running scandal surely was a factor in yesterday cartel attack.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JackBurton 10/20/2019 9:50:33 AM (No. 212501)
My father in law is from Mexico. I remember when he back there to see relatives early in this century. After living most of his life here, he was identifiable as a U.S. Citizen.
His relatives warned him to be careful about getting kidnapped.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
D S Craft 10/20/2019 10:44:40 AM (No. 212555)
What a sad, sad country is Mexico. So much potential with nothing to show for it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 10/20/2019 11:16:59 AM (No. 212588)
I just hope none of the people were killed via Obozo gun sales because that would be sad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/20/2019 12:07:18 PM (No. 212644)
Mexico has been performing half-hearted attempts to make it look like they are fighting the cartels but the amount of money these gangs bring into the country makes it hard to keep up the pretense. Beer and tacos are not all that profitable and do not make billionaires like the cocaine and other goodies do. If not for stupid Americans who use their product, Mexico would be as poor as many of its neighbors. They might as well let the cartels run the government because they would probably do a better job. Any new business agreement between the US and Mexico should include strong demands to keep their drugs to themselves but that won't ever happen because most of the street gangs in the US depend upon their reliable suppliers across the border. And did I mention that many officials in the Mexican government are also paid off to look the other way?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ConradCA 10/20/2019 1:43:51 PM (No. 212711)
I can’t put much faith in an article published in Time. They are a dying magazine because of all the lies they publish. Is there an honest publisher with coverage of Mexico?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dngriffin 10/20/2019 1:49:41 PM (No. 212714)
The real reason the cartels are now running Mexico is that sorry assed American dopers buy their products. It is time to put a hurting on the drug users that they will never forget. Instead we get states making drugs legal and scooping up a lot of taxes. Get rid of the demand and the problem will clear up quickly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/20/2019 2:46:12 PM (No. 212745)
#15 is correct. In my area (N. GA) almost all of the meth comes in from Mexico. We have a large Hispanic population and a lot of them are meth importers and dealers.
As noted, it's the dopers and meth-heads who keep this going and yet the left wants more and more narcotics legalized along with lighter sentences for the dealers. They say the dealers are "non-violent". Yeah, right.
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