Zetas And Other Gang Fighting In Mexico Results In At Least 40 Deaths In 24-hour Period

[Cereal Kyller]

Source: Huffington Post

MEXICO CITY -- Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.

At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the gang is fighting its former ally, the Gulf Cartel, said federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

Eleven bodies shot with high-powered rifles were found earlier Friday, piled near a water well on the outskirts of Mexico City, where the gang is fighting the Knights Templar, Poire said. That is an offshoot of the La Familia gang that has terrorized its home state of Michoacan.

Poire said an additional 10 people were found dead early Saturday in various parts of the northern city of Torreon, where the Zetas are fighting the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/09/zetas-gang-fighting-mexico-dead_n_893998.html

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So, legal pot has no medical purpose, DEA? How about keeping bullets out of people's brains and chests?

[ClarkUSA]

1. Good. I hope they exterminate each other as fast as possible.

I have no sympathy for these murderous greedy vermin.

Of course, I have no sympathy for those who keep the drug trade alive on either end.

[Cereal Kyller]

2. You're not concerned about the "collateral damage"?

"It isn't the bullet with my name on it that worries me," Dick Gregory once quipped, "it's the one that says 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

[ClarkUSA]

5. I never said that, so don't put words into my mouth. Love your quote, though. ;)

Gotta go. Thanks for the OP.

[msongs]

4. that's not a very nice thing to say about your friend Mr. Obama lol

feds rule marijuana has no legitimate medical purpose:


http://www.huliq.com/10559/feds-decree-marijuana-has-no-medical-purpose-and-crack-down-enforcement

[ClarkUSA]

11. Pres. Obama has got nothing to do with people choosing to do drugs.

To be exact, I have no sympathy for those who keep the drug trade alive with their habits.

[Kaleva]

3. They may suffer the same the fate as the Purple Gang of Detroit. Self destruct.

[laser_red]

6. if that happens, they will be replaced with something much the same .nt

[Kaleva]

8. The Purple Gang was supersed by the much tamer Detroit Partnership

[kenny blankenship]

7. I'm all for legal pot, but these dear people will still be unable to resolve differences amicably

That's because they do a roaring trade in crystal meth as well as pot - and cocaine and heroin too, and anything else that's illegal.

I don't think there's any appetite in America for legalizing crystal meth and I doubt there ever will be. Mexico is going to have to face the fact that it has a huge addiction problem itself, which increasingly threatens everything valuable in its life: they are hooked on killing each other. Nobody else can make them quit. The Amy Winehouse of drug related murder is probably still Colombia or Jamaica. But Mexico is in the same league*, and the presence of some other country at the top of the list this year or next, or the similarity of their homicide rate to Russia's, doesn't give them a valid excuse to ignore their problem.

Simply legalizing pot in the USA will not make this horror show stop.

* the current leader board shows Honduras and El Salvador topping the charts. These two countries are host to the same gangs and gang wars that plague Mexico, so their eye popping murder rates (which run up to twice that of Colombia) are arguably part of the same phenomenon.

[BadtotheboneBob]

9. Excellent Post...

... and we are of like mind on this issue.

[Bo]

10. legalize Pot and Coke and avoid another 40 year drug war please

...that we are happily losing

[harvey007]

12. Big banks are fueling the cartels

Go to www.InfoWars.com and listen at 4:00 central time today (Sunday) to hear the latest information on this subject.

[Proles]

13. It doesn't matter.

At this point, legalizing pot (or any other drug for that matter), probably wouldn't make that much of a difference.

Los Zetas are already expanding their criminal activities to things like extortion, kidnappings, pirating DvD's and more, in light of the increasingly strangled drug market.

I do agree, pot should be legalize, or at least decriminalized, but at this point the criminal infrastructure already exists to do other things.

Heavily restricting the flow of weapons to Mexico may help though.

[GliderGuider]

14. The Guardian: "Ciudad Juarez is all our futures. This is the inevitable war of capitalism gone mad"

Ciudad Juarez is all our futures. This is the inevitable war of capitalism gone mad

But this is not just a war between narco-cartels. Juarez has imploded into a state of criminal anarchy – the cartels, acting like any corporation, have outsourced violence to gangs affiliated or unaffiliated with them, who compete for tenders with corrupt police officers. The army plays its own mercurial role. "Cartel war" does not explain the story my friend, and Juarez journalist, Sandra Rodriguez told me over dinner last month: about two children who killed their parents "because", they explained to her, "they could". The culture of impunity, she said, "goes from boys like that right to the top – the whole city is a criminal enterprise".

Not by coincidence, Juarez is also a model for the capitalist economy. Recruits for the drug war come from the vast, sprawling maquiladora – bonded assembly plants where, for rock-bottom wages, workers make the goods that fill America's supermarket shelves or become America's automobiles, imported duty-free. Now, the corporations can do it cheaper in Asia, casually shedding their Mexican workers, and Juarez has become a teeming recruitment pool for the cartels and killers. It is a city that follows religiously the philosophy of a free market.

People often ask: why the savagery of Mexico's war? It is infamous for such inventive perversions as sewing one victim's flayed face to a soccer ball or hanging decapitated corpses from bridges by the ankles; and innovative torture, such as dipping people into vats of acid so that their limbs evaporate while doctors keep the victim conscious.

I answer tentatively that I think there is a correlation between the causelessness of Mexico's war and the savagery. The cruelty is in and of the nihilism, the greed for violence reflects the greed for brands, and becomes a brand in itself.

Jim Morrison called it back in 1967:

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land

Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold.