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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.
Unquestionably, parts of the US-Mexican border are as much of a war zone as the Middle East!
Fourteen killed in Mexico drug battle near U.S. - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Unquestionably, parts of the US-Mexican border are as much of a war zone as the Middle East!
Fourteen killed in Mexico drug battle near U.S. - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Yeah, its all those billions of US dollars that keeps them going. The good thing is, their battles between each other and the police don't affect regular citizens, unless you just happened to be there at the time. Think about a gang shooting in LA; what are the chances you would be anywhere near it at the time it happened?
With no supply there is no demand. I also see in that news article that the Mexican president sent 25000 troops to take care of the situation. That seems like enough man power and military force to me to be able to stop the cartels once and for all, but to bad they are all as corupt as the drug lords.
With no supply there is no demand. I also see in that news article that the Mexican president sent 25000 troops to take care of the situation. That seems like enough man power and military force to me to be able to stop the cartels once and for all, but to bad they are all as corupt as the drug lords.
Well, they've got a LOT of money, and they DO try to buy their way in and there are/have been takers of that money in a variety of important positions, both civil and military. However, that seems to be a bad position to be in these days -- the honest police/military are determined to clean it up (huge progress) and then their "employers - cartels" get upset when they cannot do what they were paid for. Talk about nowhere to run and hide! A LOT of the police killings have been these crooked cops -- killed by the druggies, not the honest cops; they're busy arresting these guys and putting them in jail (anyone involved in drugs, big or small).
When the police arrest people here, often they are put in the back of a pick up and taken to jail, I see that all the time -- the other day I was in Tijuana and saw a pick up with about 8 people crammed into the back (police truck, on their way to jail) and 2 of them caught my eye -- left over hippies, looked like the Haight Asbury type, but OLD, man and woman. Long grey hair, beads, etc. Wonder what they were arrested for? Probably an illegal peace protest.
As long as an American is willing to buy MJ and snort and such there will be a drug problem both here and in Mexico.
We are responsible for this blood shed south of the border............Davie I actually agree with you...............
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As long as an American is willing to buy MJ and snort and such there will be a drug problem both here and in Mexico.
We are responsible for this blood shed south of the border............Davie I actually agree with you...............
I don't agree. For one if the Mexicans quit trafficking narcotics, some drugs like pot would be grown here, pot can be just as easily home grown. Americans might not quit buying drugs, but Mexico simply wouldn't be the main source of them.
I don't think the USA is the cause of all the world's problems.
I totally agree with Convert and Dave. totally, if you don't have a market you can not sell something I don't care what it is.
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