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2025-05-14 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican mayoral candidate Yesenia Lara Gutierrez killed ahead of June 1 elections, US visa bans for 8 more Mexican pols

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Posted by Fred 2025-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [198 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Sinaloa cartel leaders charged with narco-terrorism after authorities seize 1.65 tons of fentanyl

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-14 03:28|| 2025-05-14 03:28|| Front Page Top

#2 You can tell who's the honest Mexican politicians by the fact they're dead.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-14 07:11|| 2025-05-14 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ^No you can't: gangsters always kill each other.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 07:28|| 2025-05-14 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ..well, they can't get anymore dishonest or corrupt :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-14 09:01|| 2025-05-14 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Mexico needs to declare an emergency and adopt a Bukele solution.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-14 09:57|| 2025-05-14 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If one could wave a magic wand and instantly eliminate the cartels from Mexico, it would be akin to scraping the icing off the cake. Corruption is deeply, deeply rooted into all levels of the nation, and the cartels are merely the most obvious players.

Posted by Crusader 2025-05-14 11:03|| 2025-05-14 11:03|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ True. Loss of human trafficking income will cause them to step up the drug game to make up

Posted by Frank G 2025-05-14 11:20|| 2025-05-14 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 ^6,7

but the cartels are the agents of much violent crime

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-14 18:38|| 2025-05-14 18:38|| Front Page Top

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