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2020-04-06 Caribbean-Latin America

How the coronavirus lockdown is hitting Mexico's drug cartels

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other.

Gotta be a way to turn this up to 11.

Posted by gorb 2020-04-06 07:01|| 2020-04-06 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Start rumors that the different drugs are tainted by the virus to kill the demand side.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-04-06 12:12|| 2020-04-06 12:12|| Front Page Top

#3 This would tend to support the argument that covid-19 is an accident. I mean, Chicoms would never jeopardize their narcotics business.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-06 12:35|| 2020-04-06 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Produced deliberately, escaped accidentally.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-06 12:46|| 2020-04-06 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The tunnel runs more than 1.3 kilometers under the border wall between the US and Mexico and is equipped with an elevator. "We never really thought they had the moxie to go that far," one US official said.

o.O !

Posted by Lex 2020-04-06 12:48|| 2020-04-06 12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I recall the outrage over the Walmart model. Coming into a small community, extinguishing the local hardware and clothing stores....then closing down if the expected margins were not met. Walmart closures led to people having to drive 15-25 miles to the next town and a Super Walmart, the old hardware and clothing stores were gone.

The Walmart business model appears to mirror that of the Chinese business model, or vice versa. Shocking, no ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-06 12:51|| 2020-04-06 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Country linen Lysol scented blow !

Posted by Thor Lumplump9167 2020-04-06 15:23|| 2020-04-06 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 I know it's surely cost that bastard Soros everything he's spent for decades on trying to destroy borders and sovereignty. And possibly, the incorrigibly careless muslims in every nation, their lives. The chinese it will hurt for years to come, you shall see. And the champions of mob virtue and collective pressure shall probably never do business like they used to again.

Life, in the political world is altered forever now. Without a shot fired, without a legislation, fast-tracked by that oldest, most primal motivator of men. Fear.

This blasted thing, whether escaped from a lab or evolved from demonic strain, is a force of nature that has lain waste to all our diverse enemy and their wiles. It has given our Governments a much needed chance to re-evaluate our imperatives and projected possibilities for other future things like it, that shall have to be now strategized for. This means a lot, both from the public administrative and mass psychological perspectives. And the results can be a more secure social environment for our citizens, more discipline and less buggery by public nuisances like liberals.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-06 17:51|| 2020-04-06 17:51|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 Hear, hear.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-06 18:30|| 2020-04-06 18:30|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 IMO, the most important outcome of Covid-19, is that a lot of (otherwise good people) learned that the Universe doesn't give a damn that they think.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-06 18:39|| 2020-04-06 18:39|| Front Page Top

#11 “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” ― Carl Sagan

Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-06 19:09|| 2020-04-06 19:09|| Front Page Top

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