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| Caribbean-Latin America | |
| Mexico and the war against drug cartels | |
| 2008-12-11 | |
Mexicos Drug-Trafficking Organizations Gulf cartel: As recently as a year ago, the Gulf cartel was considered the most powerful drug-trafficking organization in Mexico. After nearly two years of bearing the brunt of Mexican law enforcement and military efforts, however, it is an open question at this point whether the cartel is still intact. The groups paramilitary enforcement arm, Los Zetas, was the primary reason for Gulfs power, but reports of Zeta activity from this past year suggest that the much-feared group now operates independently. Without the Zetas, the Gulf leadership has struggled to remain relevant. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #7 Thanks LOTP, its been a while. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2008-12-11 23:46 |
| #6 A Guam patron whom used to work and travel between California and Mexico argued that, IHO, Mexico's greatest prob is that its ruling or political elites prefer personal Power Corruption and Control, espec of other people's $$$, to the well-being of thier own people and nation. He also opined that MANY MEXICANS SNEAK OR COME INTO CALIFORNIA BECUZ THINGS ARE MUCH CHEAPER AND ABUNDANT OVER THE RIO GRANDE THAN INSIDE MEXICO, THEIR OWN COUNTRY. In addition,that Many Mexico Govt Oficials and Police will always find ways to screw Americans out of $$$, espec iff leaving Mexico to enter back into the USA via Border security checkpoints controlled wholly by Mexico, to include the covert planting of drugs either to travel into the USA or else to put innocent Amers in Mexi jails in order to "legally" extort monies from US sources. GENERALLY, PATRON > DESCRIBES MEXICO AS MOSTLY A GANGLAND COUNTRY AND GOVT, ONE WHICH DOES ANYTHING IT WANTS TO WID OUTSIDERS, INNOCENT OR NOT. THE GOOD NEWS FOR TOURISTS/VISITORS IS THAT MANY MEXIS LIKE THE RUSSIANS DESPITE THE LATTER USUALY NOT HAVING $$$ LIKE THE GRINGOS NORTH OF THE RIO GRANDE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-11 22:49 |
| #5 A big fence to stop smugglers and a willingness to shoot those that come across the border in force would do wonders. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-12-11 21:44 |
| #4 He doesn't seem to have much of a choice. Let them run wild and have the U.S. all over your case, crack down and have a war, go nuclear and have a domestic backlash. Whatever they do, it won't be quick or easy, but they can't let this spiral out of control and affect the tourism market, which it is on the verge of doing, or they are screwed. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-12-11 15:31 |
| #3 And how much is the natural consequences of decades of single party rule and its endemic corruption of the party, the state, and the culture? The cancer spread long ago, this is a late term attempt to apply heavy chemo-therapy with the drug war simply being one of the protocols in the process. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-12-11 11:51 |
| #2 Wonderful. The "success" of the Calderon crackdown resulted in a doubling of the drug-related murder rate. How much more success can the Mexican polity survive without collapsing entirely? I have to wonder how much of the Colombian actual success story is a result of the shifting of the drug-empire's centre of gravity northwards to Mexico. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-12-11 11:15 |
| #1 Banditos vs. Rurales. Same as it ever was. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-11 09:01 |