12 policemen ambushed and killed, while investigating the beheadings of 10 people - Polidicks

[QUOTE=NYT] [IMG]http://in2eastafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Mexico-arrests-suspected-killers.jpg[/IMG] Suspected gunmen ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 police officers who had been sent to investigate the beheadings of 10 people in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexican authorities said Monday. Six state and six local officers were killed and 11 officers were wounded Sunday night on a road leading out of the town of Teloloapan, between Acapulco and Mexico City, said Arturo Martínez, a Guerrero State police spokesman.The officers were traveling in six patrol pickups and searching for the bodies of seven men and three women whose heads had been dumped outside the town’s slaughterhouse earlier Sunday, Mr. Martínez said.The heads were left with a message threatening the [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/mexico/drug_trafficking/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"]drug cartel[/URL] La Familia, whose home base is in neighboring Michoacan State.Teloloapan is near an area shared by Guerrero and Michoacan that is known as Tierra Caliente for its steamy weather. Drug traffickers have used the violent, mountainous zone for years to grow [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/m/marijuana/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"]marijuana[/URL] and opium poppies.The region has been plagued by drug violence in recent years as drug gangs have fought to control it. The authorities say the fighting has severely battered La Familia.Soldiers have been sent to the area, but that has not stopped gunmen from killing priests, politicians, police chiefs or anyone else who gets in the way.In September 2010, nine police officers were kidnapped in Teloloapan as they were investigating the death of a man in the village of El Revelado. The bodies of eight of the officers were found days later. Six had been dismembered. One officer was found alive.More than 47,000 people have died in drug violence nationwide since President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on drug cartels in December 2006.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/world/americas/investigating-beheadings-12-officers-slain-in-mexico.html[/URL] Wow, don't fuck with the cartels.

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this is fucking insanity

[QUOTE=The golden;35218538]They really need to stop fucking around with the police and courts and just call in military forces. How many innocent people do they want to die? Their current strategy is obviously not working. Why do they keep doing it?[/QUOTE] I'm fairly certain they already sent in the military. Obviously, if they have not much has changed. There needs to be some real intervention in Mexico.

Would be amazing if they made all narcotics legal in Mexico. They wouldn't know what the fuck to do then.

-ninja-

[QUOTE=Cone;35218565]I'm fairly certain they already sent in the military. Obviously, if they have not much has changed. There needs to be some real intervention in Mexico.[/QUOTE] The marines are involved. [IMG_thumb]http://images.tmcnet.com/featurestory/ap/2010M9d15/Mexico-Drug-War-JPEG-1.jpg[/IMG_thumb]

[QUOTE=The golden;35218538]They really need to stop fucking around with the police and courts and just call in military forces. How many innocent people do they want to die? Their current strategy is obviously not working. Why do they keep doing it?[/QUOTE] Not only did they call in the military ages ago, the Los Zetas (or one of the major ones) were formed by specially trained soldiers who formed a cartel after realising how much money they could make.

Yikes, not vacationing to Mexico anytime in the next few decades.

We are not going to mexico. There is no oil. Sad truth.

Just reading the title, I knew it was Mexico. The place is fucked up.

[QUOTE=Elfy;35218635]We are not going to mexico. There is no oil. Sad truth.[/QUOTE]But they're the sixth largest crude oil producer in the world?

I think Mexico's problems are too great to deal with by themselves, especially if you consider how a lot of the police are siding with the cartels.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;35218588]Not only did they call in the military ages ago, the Los Zetas (or one of the major ones) were formed by specially trained soldiers who formed a cartel after realising how much money they could make.[/QUOTE] ...note to self: Vote to raise salary of all US special operations. Organized crime carried out by SEAL's would be...less than ideal...

[QUOTE=Elfy;35218635]We are not going to mexico. There is no oil. Sad truth.[/QUOTE] its funny because they produce more oil than Iraq

martial law anyone?

[QUOTE=GunFox;35218772]...note to self: Vote to raise salary of all US special operations. Organized crime carried out by SEAL's would be...less than ideal...[/QUOTE] IIRC, it was the US who funded the training of the special forces that made up the Zetas, they recieved very good quality training! :v:

[QUOTE=Terminutter;35218903]IIRC, it was the US who funded the training of the special forces that made up the Zetas, they recieved very good quality training! :v:[/QUOTE] You're welcome, Mexico! Up next we'll give them [I]tanks![/I] We know how you like a good challenge.

I feel bad for Mexico :(

Cos bloody mic

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;35218575]The marines are involved. [IMG_thumb]http://images.tmcnet.com/featurestory/ap/2010M9d15/Mexico-Drug-War-JPEG-1.jpg[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE] It's time to fuck their shit up even more then.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;35220847]It's time to fuck their shit up even more then.[/QUOTE] The country is corrupted from head to toe, either an outside intervention, martial law, or dictatorship (not always a bad thing) could do something.

[QUOTE=Elfy;35218635]We are not going to mexico. There is no oil. Sad truth.[/QUOTE] Yeah I went through a "fight the power" government-hate stage when I was a kid, too.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;35218575]The marines are involved. [IMG_thumb]http://images.tmcnet.com/featurestory/ap/2010M9d15/Mexico-Drug-War-JPEG-1.jpg[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE] Sports obviously got him into this business, ban sports.

There's a very glaringly obvious way to remove drug cartels virtually overnight. Destroy their market; legalise drugs. [editline]20th March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;35221063]Yeah I went through a "fight the power" government-hate stage when I was a kid, too.[/QUOTE] Now you're in the 'government is infallible' stage?

Knew it was Mexico just from the title.

[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;35221162]There's a very glaringly obvious way to remove drug cartels virtually overnight. Destroy their market; legalise drugs.[/QUOTE] I don't think that would actually do that much. The cartels utterly despise each-other, so there would still be tons of gang warfare, which in itself would lead to cops trying to stop it and getting killed much like they are getting killed today. Then you've got police officers basically being told to turn the other cheek if they don't want to get decapitated, and at that point the cartels can basically do whatever they want. Plus the police are still corrupt as fuck, so even if the cartels abruptly become pharmacuetical companies they can still pay off cops and kill competition when nobody's looking.

[QUOTE=SapphireFlame;35218614]Yikes, not vacationing to Mexico anytime in the next few decades.[/QUOTE] The upper states of mexico are pretty bad, but the lower parts are fine. Escpecailly the Yucatán Peninsula which is where Cancun is, and the famous Mayan City Chichen Itza. I went there a few years ago, it is awesome being able to climb the temples. Dunno if you can still climb them.

[QUOTE=GunFox;35218772]...note to self: Vote to raise salary of all US special operations. Organized crime carried out by SEAL's would be...less than ideal...[/QUOTE] I don't think that you realize just how hard it is to actually become a SEAL. You need to love your country to even have a chance.

[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;35221162]There's a very glaringly obvious way to remove drug cartels virtually overnight. Destroy their market; legalise drugs. [/QUOTE] Like that'll destroy them, I'd bet that they'd take on domestic terorrism, attacking legal suppliers and retailers, creating an environment of fear, leading to fewer people wanting to get involved in legal production and retail. Then add to the fact that the cartels will be able to offer a significantly lower cost, due to the fact that they avoid the borders fees and the like, along with taxes. Sure you'd get safer stuff from legal corporations, but the costs would be exorbitant in comparrison to that guy at the end of the street. (or however people buy drugs, I don't know much about that) Sure legalising would make them take a hit to profits, but it would hardly destroy them.