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2010-06-29 Caribbean-Latin America

Cantu assassination: Why are drug cartels killing Mexican candidates?

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Posted by Steve White 2010-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The cartel is morphing into a power center to counter the despised and corrupt government. Same game Pancho Villa played a hundred years ago. From bandito to revolutionary against the then corrupt government of Mexico City. Its an easy step to targeting ~~terrorists~~ politicians in the American model from Afghanistan. They just use peons rather than drones.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-29 08:06|| 2010-06-29 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 IIRC, Villa was an American-backed revolutionary who morphed into an anti-American bandit king after his bid for Mexico City collapsed.

Not that there's a hell of a lot of difference between bandit and revolutionary in your average failed state. Look at Mao before the Long March, or Savimbi in Angola.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-06-29 13:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-06-29 13:54|| Front Page Top

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