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2011-01-02 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2011-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Hey, this is the same group that wanted to work with the government about a month ago. Bandanov you had mentioned they were the weakest. That they were under attack from rival groups that were much stronger. So you cut off the cash flow and your help go to the highest bidder. You are much more informed on this subject. I believe the government is made to look like they pulled this off alone.

Posted by Dale 2011-01-02 10:40|| 2011-01-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 A very nice analysis, Chris. Hopefully Guatemala will handle their end with dispatch, as an example to others, as the Mexican military continues hammering bad guys at home.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-02 13:38|| 2011-01-02 13:38|| Front Page Top

#3 What you read was a posting in the O-club.

La Familia is the weakest, and their offer to the federal government either morphed into leaving them alone from protect us, or I misinterpreted news reports. Looking back at the archives, I don't think I reported that, because if I didn't, I didn't regard it as either an actual message, or it was a misinterpretation.

Either way, La Familia wanted the federal government out of Michoacan and what it got was two Policia Federal operations that appears to have cut off the head of the drug cartel.

As for rival cartels, they poached (as in recruited) a former Los Zetas member years after La Familia convinced Los Zetas to attack another west coast cartel, in exchange for the right to use Michoacan highways to transport marijuana.

Understand the relationship: La Familia Michoacan convinced Los Zetas to attack Beltran-Leyva and Los Zetas were already at war with the Sinaloa group. That was two unnecessary wars they started, and a third with Los Zetas.

My thesis for saying in the post they were under the threat of attack was that the Sinaloa and Beltran-Leyva gangs were rearmed, reloading and preparing for war for the Tijuana crossing. That meant that inasmuch as some of Sinaloa's efforts would be concentrated in the north, they had other business to take care of, namely La Familia. As for west coast cartels La Familia was the largest after Sinaloa and Los Zetas, and my guess, to call it what it was, was that La Familia leadership was afraid of what would happen should either the Sinaloa or Beltran-Leyva group win in Tijuana.

Posted by badanov 2011-01-02 16:05|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-01-02 16:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks, TW

Posted by badanov 2011-01-02 16:06|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-01-02 16:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you Badanov. I jumped down the rabbit hole and saw a very complex intense organization. It will take some time to take it all in. Freefirezone-Digital Society. Well a person has got to start sometime because inquiring minds want to know. Well you get the idea.

Posted by Dale 2011-01-02 18:00|| 2011-01-02 18:00|| Front Page Top

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