Mexican Assassins: Police caught in the act?

[niceypoo]

Run time: 05:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaA7cEZnmU   Posted on YouTube: April 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: carrier57 Views on YouTube: 1071   Posted on DU: April 19, 2010 By DU Member: niceypoo Views on DU: 1717

 
Narrated by Charles Bowden, author and independent journalist with extensive experience covering the drug war. He points out many indications that the entire operation was conducted with the knowledge of and--perhaps--the involvement of the Mexican state police.

[Aaria]

1. No wonder it's so out of control down there.

[niceypoo]

2. The cartels are now systematically emptying Mexican border towns

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g1kxKdVNumtUaRoAZB_xf1XzxDfgD9F494JG4">AP Enterprise: Mexico cartels empty border towns

They have burned down homes in Esperanza ("Hope") and torched a church on Good Friday in El Porvenir ("The Future"). Wherever they strike, they leave notes ordering residents to leave.
"They were typewritten, and they said, 'You have just a few hours to get out,'" Christian, the 14-year-old, said as he set off for a new life in Texas. Like others cited in this story, he would give only his first name for fear of reprisal. Some were so afraid they wouldn't even give that.
In El Porvenir, which normally has about 3,000 residents, only a couple hundred appear to remain. During Easter Week, when schools were closed and the plaza would normally bustle, the only things moving in the center of town were a few stray dogs.
The exodus appears to be the work of the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug organization. The Associated Press, citing U.S. intelligence, reported last week that the group has seized control of smuggling corridors through the region after a bloody, two-year battle with the Juarez cartel.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Just the level of the violence has increased

now here is what the AP is not telling you, mostly. The violence is moving north.

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[ericinne]

3. They're not police

Mexican cartels members have been known to use police uniforms and hire ex police officers. And since when do the police drive SUV's?

[greiner3]

14. Cops in my piss ant little town own a SUV;

Now what were you saying?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. He may have all the experience in the world

but these guys are sicarios. Sorry, been to the early shootings when this mess started, and many of those sicarios are ZETAS, aka FORMER military, Special Forces. Trained? You betcha...

by the way the state police did not respond for reasons that he is not going into... but that's ok.

What he got right is that you got the war in all it's ugliness.

[tkmorris]

7. The state police did not respond for reasons you ALSO did not go into

Why don't you tell us what that is?

[dotymed]

9. Remember

The "disputed" Presidential election in Mexico? Of course WE christened the winner. A R.W. corporatist. Before that, Mexico was COMPARATIVELY safe.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I guess I missed all the shoot outs

involving the drug dealers in the State of Mexico.

Or perhaps the student movement (with weapons mind you) in Guerrero during the seventies, and I could go on.

It's gotten worst, but Mexico has had an internal problem going back a while. Well before this President who'd made it far worst. But hey, just because the US Media did not bother telling you does not mean we did not have some ahem interesting going ons even during my childhood. Nothing like going through military checkpoints on the way to Acapulco...you mean you didn't know of those? Of course not, most Muricans FLEW down there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Simple

ranges from compromised to not enough people who have the gear or training to go head to head or hand to hand.

Now you should ask why the Army did not respond... that would be far more proper

I know people think they understand, but guys you really do not get it... this is not as simple as just getting on squad cars and moving.

By the way, I realize most of you know more than the people who've been there done that and all that jazz.

[CLANG]

8. Legalize Drugs!

[Gman2]

12. Why would they empty border towns? Civil War. No-mans land.

Thats why. If we lock down the border, or real ID their asses out of any possibility of a job here, there will be full scale war.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Not quite, safe corridors to move drugs

without any witnesses.

They are done trying to buy the authorities.

Will that lead to a civil war? Well I call this a civil war already.