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Caribbean-Latin America
'You need an army to defeat an army': President Trump wages WAR on Mexican drug cartels to 'wipeout monsters' after three American Mormon mothers and six of their children are EXECUTED and their bodies left in burned out SUVs
2019-11-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Flat tire could have put tragic Mormon family in the crossfire of battling Mexican drug cartels

  • At least nine U.S. citizens, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack Monday

  • Rhonita Maria LeBaron, died along with her 6-month-old twins and her two other children, aged 10 and 12

  • Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of Dawna's children, aged 11 and three, were also killed

  • The victims belong to the LeBaron family - a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills of northern Mexico decades ago

  • The family members were traveling in three cars from the settlement: One mother was heading to Phoenix while the other two mothers were driving to Chihuahua for a wedding on Friday

  • Family members say one of the mothers had broken down after getting a flat tire

  • Mexico's top security official Alfonso Durazo said on Tuesday cartel gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs

  • Nine of the family members were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing. Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona

  • Relatives say one boy managed to hide his wounded siblings - some less than a year old - in bushes before he ran back to their settlement to get help after his mother was gunned down

  • One of the mothers who was killed managed to save her seven-month-old baby's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV as bullets tore through the vehicle

  • Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would discuss security on Tuesday with the U.S. after Trump fired off a series of tweets.
Posted by:Skidmark

#29  The interesting thing, SteveS, is that by studiously ignoring the acts of the truly bad who "ignore them", they provide cover for those regimes and groups. The worst abusers of human rights are whitewashed, and the countries that really try get slimed by HRW repeating the flimsiest claims they can find.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-11-05 19:54  

#28   Has Human Rights Watch condemned the cartels for these actual civilians who were slaughtered?

Many moons ago, while driving about the countryside, I heard an interview on the BBC with some spokesdroid from either HRW or Amnesia International. It stuck in my head all these years because in the midst of the usual tongue bath, the interviewer suddenly brought the heat: "You guys are always banging on about the West. There are some really shitty people in this world. How come you never bitch about them?"
(yeah, I'm paraphrasing)
The reply? "Because the really awful people ignore us."
I was stunned, both by the hypocrisy of the remark and by the fact that she told the truth. So much for seizing the high moral ground.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-11-05 19:36  

#27  Ought to make House Hunters International interesting watching when they do Mexico.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-05 19:10  

#26  Has Human Rights Watch condemned the cartels for these actual civilians who were slaughtered?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-11-05 18:49  

#25  There are Mexicans who live in US states who go to Mexico on secret missions against the Cartels for their government, then return to the safety of the US where they raise their families without fear of retaliation. Dual national Contractors that are a shadowy group.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2019-11-05 14:50  

#24  The banking laundering practices in the U.S. ought to be looked into.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-11-05 13:57  

#23  ^ (Tragicomic) Snark o' the Day
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-05 13:22  

#22  Apparently, they weren't able to find a sanctuary city.
Posted by: Matt   2019-11-05 13:05  

#21  Chickenshit Pierre speaks...

He's very, very sad but not sad enough to secure the border. Gotta wonder how much cartel money makes its way into his pockets.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-11-05 12:57  

#20  ButtaJigg?
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-05 12:55  

#19  What was it Boob Jobs ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-05 12:49  

#18  But Black Jack posts
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-11-05 12:44  

#17  Frank - tested with B****J*** & it didn't post
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-11-05 12:42  

#16  Speak up, Pierre Delecto. Defend your father and your fellow LDSaints. If you have any honor at all.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-05 11:46  

#15  Intriguing.
One former member [of the Mormon Messican colony] isGeorge Romney, father of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was born in 1907 in Colonia Dublan in Chihuahua state.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-11-05 11:42  

#14  Very right. If Trump does want to make the bureaucrats do something decisive, I wouldn't put it past them to consider assassination even. The drug business must go on. To many, it's their mainstay.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-05 11:28  

#13  Article is fvcking horrid.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-11-05 11:27  

#12  They will do nothing because the duffel bags and briefcases of money that fuel Washington and useless elections of thousands of petty tyrant sadams and Castros would be ruined,
Posted by: Eohippus Glusorong3318   2019-11-05 11:11  

#11  I can already hear the Human Rights folks beating their breasts at the immense collateral from this one.

"Senor Perfidio was a generous man. His family was struck by an American drone. Very sad."

Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-05 11:08  

#10  Mercutio - probably a banned word?
Posted by: Frank G   2019-11-05 11:08  

#9  I've said for years we need to wage real war on the Cartels. Including if you take cartel money, you eat a Hellfire.

Spray the drug fields with persistent nerve agents.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-11-05 10:46  

#8  Black Jack, indeed.

Don't burn our citizens to death and expect us not to make you pay a heavy price for it.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-05 10:36  

#7  odd - can't post comments on this article, though others OK
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-11-05 10:34  

#6  Paging General Pershing, General John Pershing...
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-11-05 10:26  

#5  'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'

Difference is: Trump is quite likely to wage war. Previous Administrations simply had a photo-op.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-11-05 10:13  

#4  'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'

Ok, jefe. But a punitive expedition is definitely an option for us.

Agreed that your narco-state is a lost cause and that yourself are a pathetically weak leader, a de facto hostage to the cartels. But don't expect us to sit by and not seek to punish those who slaughtered an American family--burned them
alive-- just a few hundred miles away from our territory.

As a young man, Trump said of his real estate practices, "I play fair. But if you screw me, I screw back--in spades."
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-05 10:10  

#3  Release the drones!
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-11-05 10:10  

#2  ^ Likely only 1. Something along the lines of "President Trump is a fascist dictator who has offered a Quid Pro Quo to Mexico." We'll send aid if you help stop the cartels" Clearly an impeachable offense."
Posted by: Warthog   2019-11-05 10:01  

#1  Any comments from Mitt Romney?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-11-05 09:44  

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