Mexico’s two major crime cartels now at war - Polidicks

[quote] MEXICO CITY — The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — the victims most likely innocents. No longer limiting themselves to regional skirmishes, the older, established drug-smuggling Sinaloa cartel is now fighting the brash, young paramilitary Zetas crime organization across multiple front lines in Mexico in a desperate fight, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and security analysts on both sides of the border. The two gangs and their surrogates continue to quietly kill each other, but they are also staging public massacres in order to terrify civilians, cow authorities and taunt outgoing President Felipe Calderon, who has made his U.S.-backed confrontation against the cartels a centerpiece of his administration. “What was once viewed as extreme is now normal. So these gangs must find new extremes. And the only real limit is their imagination, and you do not want to know what is the limit of psychopaths,” said Alejandro Hope, a security analyst with the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, a nonpartisan think tank. In the past month alone, in what authorities describe as gruesome version of text messaging, the two criminal groups and their allies deposited 14 headless bodies in front of city hall in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, and hung nine people, including four women, from a bridge in the same city. They have left 18 dismembered bodies in vans near Lake Chapala, an area frequented by tourists and U.S. retirees outside Guadalajara. They used a dump truck to unload 49 more corpses, missing not only heads but also feet and hands, outside Monterrey, Mexico’s main industrial city. To guarantee the widest possible audience, they posted a video of themselves dumping the bodies, plus a banner: “Gulf cartel, Sinaloa cartel, marines and soldiers, nobody can do anything against us or they will lose...” It was signed with names of Zeta leaders. “We’ve had over recent weeks these despicable inhuman acts in different parts of the country that are part of an irrational struggle mainly between two of the existing criminal organizations and their criminal allies,” said Mexico’s interior minister, Alejandro Poire. ‘Psychopathology at work’ Many of the victims have not been identified, and in the case of the 49 decapitated corpses, their heads have not yet been recovered. It appears likely the victims might not have been members of the warring groups but street criminals, addicts, civilians or migrants just passing through on their way to the United States. “The killings are done to draw a response from the media, from the government, to bring in the military. So these victims, they are not members of the organizations. They are just random guys. All the evidence suggests this,” said Jorge Chabat of the Center for Investigation and Economic Studies, an expert on the drug trade.[/quote] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexicos-two-major-crime-cartels-now-at-war/2012/05/24/gJQAUhKlmU_story.html?hpid=z1[/url]

[quote]To guarantee the widest possible audience, they posted a video of themselves dumping the bodies, plus a banner: “Gulf cartel, Sinaloa cartel, marines and soldiers, nobody can do anything against us or they will lose...”[/quote]God what a bunch of assholes.

"Senor! We are at war with the Zetas!" "Throw heads everywhere son! [B][I]EVERYWHERE![/B][/I]"

What a bunch of scum.

Hopefully they will all kill eachother.

Jesus Going a bit far are we

[QUOTE=Garik;36080488]Hopefully they will all kill eachother.[/QUOTE]Or it'll end up creating an even greater problem

Oh man, this is gonna be bad.

Where the world police at?

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;36080790]Where the world police at?[/QUOTE] Everywhere where it shouldn't be

[QUOTE=Garik;36080488]Hopefully they will all kill eachother.[/QUOTE] Even if they killed each other, the power vacuum that would be created could encourage other smaller cartels to bid for the power. It could create a very bloody war between every cartel in Mexico.

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;36080790]Where the world police at?[/QUOTE] Looking for birth certificates and oil.

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;36080790]Where the world police at?[/QUOTE] I had the Team america theme in my head when I read that. [B]'Muurriiccaaa FUCK YEE[/B]

I think Mexico can take an example in Brazil, mainly Rio. After decades of war police vs. Facelas, they completely changed strategy. Rather than fighting criminals, they try to help the people who initially supported/ignored crime by taking certain social choke points and investing a lot of time into micromanaging local problems. Just saw a documentary.

more gore videos coming

I wonder how long until some ass tries to make a video game based on this.

[QUOTE=Evoc;36080820]Looking for birth certificates and oil.[/QUOTE] What oil? Where is the U.S. looking for oil?

[QUOTE=Evoc;36080820]Looking for birth certificates and oil.[/QUOTE] Yeah those huge oil deposits that Afghanistan doesn't have. LOL U SO COOL

What is it going to take for America to finally do something. I mean for fucks sake, this is right next to our homeland. Fuck Afghanistan, they can deal with their own problems, the Taliban are just insurgents half a world away, they can't do anything to us. We need to protect whats around us.

The first ghost recon future warrior?

[QUOTE=Killuah;36081469]I think Mexico can take an example in Brazil, mainly Rio. After decades of war police vs. Facelas, they completely changed strategy. Rather than fighting criminals, they try to help the people who initially supported/ignored crime by taking certain social choke points and investing a lot of time into micromanaging local problems. Just saw a documentary.[/QUOTE] Could you post a name? I'm really interested in the Favela problem in Rio. It's an interesting story, and a very politically charged one.

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;36080790]Where the world police at?[/QUOTE] Mexico doesn't want us there.

[QUOTE=Killer900;36080445]God what a bunch of assholes.[/QUOTE] bit of an understatement

[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;36082121]Yeah those huge oil deposits that Afghanistan doesn't have. LOL U SO COOL[/QUOTE] No, actually, we went into Afghanistan for the opium, lol.

[QUOTE=Fenderson;36083799]No, actually, we went into Afghanistan for the opium, lol.[/QUOTE] Thank you for making a profile goodbye.

[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;36083823]Thank you for making a profile goodbye.[/QUOTE] Come again?

[QUOTE=Fenderson;36083872]Come again?[/QUOTE] Please kindly take your leave. You are making yourself look like an ass.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36083971]Please kindly take your leave. You are making yourself look like an ass.[/QUOTE] I don't know, I thought that dude with the pink title was being kind of a dick by mocking Evoc. I haven't mocked or disrespected anybody, I'm sorry if you think I did.

If there's someplace our military needs to be, it's definately Mexico. A growing problem right next to us? Fuck that lets control countries that mean nothing to us 6,000 miles away!

Throwing heads at your enemies is something I dearly wish had died along with feudalism and the trebuchets that were once used to launch severed heads.