In Case You Doubt Mexico Is A Failed Narco-Terror State

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Cartels in Control – Mexican President Says They Had to Release Chapito Guzman or else Sinaloa Cartel Would Kill Officials…
www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-sinaloa-obrador/mexican-president-hails-decision-to-release-guzman-son-critics-slam-security-policy-idUSKBN1WX1PL

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican officials on Friday admitted they had bungled the arrest of kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son, who they let go during shootouts with drug gangs in the streets of a major city, but the president insisted his security strategy was working.

Cartel gunmen surrounded around 35 police and national guards in the northwestern city of Culiacan on Thursday and made them free Ovidio Guzman, one of the jailed drug lord’s dozen or so children, after his brief detention set off widespread gun battles and a jailbreak that stunned the country.

The chaos in Culiacan, a bastion of Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, turned up pressure on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December promising to pacify a country weary of more than a decade of gang violence and murders.

Lopez Obrador came under heavy criticism on social media and from security experts, who said that authorities risked encouraging copycat actions by caving in to the gang, and that the retreat from a major city created the impression that the cartel, not the state, was in control.

With everyone clamouring for war in Syria- there's a much more obvious sandbox we could play in- much closer to home- and which would yield a much better return on investment. At some point, Mexico will simply have to be cleaned out and stabilized. 

Don't think for a second this is over- the cartels will now brutally murder the families of every single solidier, police officer, and national guard member involved in the arrest. 

[tbop77]

Just get them to pay for that wall, as promised, and we'll be fine......

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Oct 19, 2019 6:36:44 GMT -5 tbop77 said:

Just get them to pay for that wall, as promised, and we'll be fine......

So far, so good. But the wall, the USMCA and other tools are only part of the big picture. What really needs to happen is to address the demand-side here in the US. Break the addiction to cheap labor, end the failed war on drugs, and face facts about far too many Americans willing to feed dark and unthinkable urges with children-- start executing them.

[happyhoix]

For someone who claims that only the dems are violent, you sure do advocate for a lot of 'cleaning out' and 'executing', don't you?

[tallguy]

Oct 21, 2019 7:19:29 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

For someone who claims that only the dems are violent, you sure do advocate for a lot of 'cleaning out' and 'executing', don't you?

Mote.  Beam.

[swamp]

well, that sounds like a good reason why we should offer mexicans asylum.   You are admitting it's not a safe place to live. 

[djAdvocate]

and Nicaragua is far worse. even better case, right?

[Opti]

Fear mongering about Mexico. Is this a Trump rerun for funds, or does it just feel that way?

[Tennesseer]

Oct 21, 2019 17:59:40 GMT -5 Opti said:

Fear mongering about Mexico. Is this a Trump rerun for funds, or does it just feel that way?

Groundhog Day Quatre-vingt-six.

[weltschmerz]

With everyone clamouring for war in Syria- there's a much more obvious sandbox we could play in- much closer to home- and which would yield a much better return on investment. At some point, Mexico will simply have to be cleaned out and stabilized.


Are you proposing a war on Mexico? A war is not a "return on investment". What the hell is wrong with you?  Why don't you "clean out and stabilize" every country from North Korea to "Nambia, Button and Nipple"?

I think the USA should be cleaned out and stabilized. Would you be OK with that?

[OldCoyote]

Oct 21, 2019 9:57:09 GMT -5 swamp said:

well, that sounds like a good reason why we should offer mexicans asylum.   You are admitting it's not a safe place to live. 

The citizens or the Cartel?