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Moment Mexican cartel members line up 20 gang members before executing them and abandoning the bodies outside the city's mayor-elect's office
2021-10-01
The posting here wasn't very clear. It all took place in Guerrero state on the west coast of Mexican, where the communist movements of its past meet with the expectation of criminal organizations.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Video leaked by Los Tlacos
    Who?
    cartel showed rival members of La Bandera
    Also who?
    kneeling side-by-side before they were killed

  • Four bodies were discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car that was left in front of the campaign office of Iguala, Mexico, mayor-elect David Gama Pérez

  • A member of Los Tlacos is seen in the footage interrogating La Bandera members, who linked their leader Chucho Brito to mayor Gama Pérez

  • One of gang members said that Chucho Brito had a direct 'line' to the mayor and made money off of construction projects that were awarded to him
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Related:
Iguala: 2020-08-29 Ex cop is arrested over the abduction of 43 students who were turned over to a cartel and massacred in southern Mexico in 2014
Iguala: 2019-01-16 Spain arrests 17 in ongoing anti-terror operation
Iguala: 2015-07-28 Mexico search for missing students turns up 129 bodies
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Thank you for the explanations and the link, badanov and Skidmark.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-10-01 21:47  

#7  ninos del Dios
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder   2021-10-01 16:30  

#6  Remember, they're just poor folks that want a job cleaning a billionare's toilet.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-10-01 16:28  

#5  Build that f--king wall.
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder   2021-10-01 09:23  

#4  It's Tlaco Tuesday!
Posted by: Frank G   2021-10-01 09:03  

#3  Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-01 08:14  

#2  Who?
[translated from Spanish]

"According to DEA reports, the Gulf Cartel maintains its power base in Tamaulipas and Zacatecas, where it could have alliances with the CJNG. The group founded by Juan García Ábrego in the mid-1980s in Matamoros, still operates to ship H and C by transporting cargo that enters the United States at points in McAllen and Brownsville, Texas."

Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-01 08:07  

#1  Who?
[translated from Spanish]

"Los Tlacos and the Southern Cartel, which are fighting for control of at least a thousand communities and a million hectares of forests and fertile lands to grow poppies and marijuana. And also the almost 10 million pesos a year from the collection of fees to the 600 miners of the Carrizalillo mine, according to their complaints."

Gold and Rubber. Group war in sierra causes displaced people
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-01 07:54  

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