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Hezbollah's Cocaine Jihad
More on the goings on in Chiapas.
Faced with dwindling Iranian funding, Shiite terror group partners with Mexican narco mobs; uses millions of dollars in drug money to support weapon acquisition habit

Chiapas is one of Mexico's most exotic federal districts. But the magical forests, appealing Indian communities, colorful towns and intriguing archeological sites -- that serve as main tourist attractions -- hide a political hell.

In the mid-1990s, a leftist resistance group which calls itself The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made Chiapas its home. Its attempts to fight the Mexican Army repeatedly failed, but the Zapatistas are still very active in the district's rural areas. Chiapas is considered a dangerous place, where every home has an arms arsenal of its own; and like many other places in Mexico, Chiapas' streets have become the battlefield where the government and local drug lords wrestle for dominance.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-12-31
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