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Drug Cartels Block 13 Roadways in Mexican City

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Posted on Aug 15, 2010
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Police stand next to a trailer truck that was stolen and then used as a barricade by gunmen on the outskirts of the city of Monterrey, Mexico, in March of this year.

Mexican drug cartels in the city of Monterrey have stepped up their public presence, blocking at least 13 major roadways in the city on Saturday – dragging drivers out of their cars and using their vehicles to cut roads – as a show of force in the face of government crackdowns. —JCL

The BBC:

Police in Mexico say members of a drug cartel blocked off at least 13 major roads in Monterrey on Saturday.

Drivers were dragged out of their vehicles by armed men and their cars used to cut off the roads in the north-eastern city.

The blockade happened after a shootout between the Mexican army and alleged members of a drug cartel, in which four people were killed.

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By REDHORSE, August 16, 2010 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment

———-pardon the typo’s——-

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By REDHORSE, August 16, 2010 at 1:10 pm Link to this comment

Drugs, firearms, illegals smuggling, the illegal documents trade, human trafficking/sex slavery, money laundering, murder for hire, auto theft, organized international gang crime, home invasion, anchor baby/welfare fraud, capitalist exploitation of low wage cheap labor, distruction of American Social Services, for profit kidnapping, add your own: are all part of a trillion dollar enterprise that lines the pockets of both Mexican and American politicians.

    The primary driver of American Latino Politicos is not human rights for illegals, but the sure realization that a corrupt indifferent Washington has placed America on the auction block and it is possible through invasion to create, at the least, the opportunity to seize political control of the American Southwest. It already exists as a defacto second nation. The criminal enterprises listed above represent an already in place, black market underground economic empire, which stands as an independent entity, straddling both sides of the Southern Border. That’s the so called “real politic”.

      If you’re startled by the bold banditos blocking traffic in Monterrey, take a look at the Comandante Zero masked men fronting L.A. Latino demonstrations, or check the websites calling for armed Chicano Street gangs, to be recognized as armed militia, equivalent to the I.R.A., their crimes to be viewed as legitimate resistance to white oppression. Or, as many of us here in the Southwest have directly experienced, wait for direct unprovoked physical violence to wake you up. Again, I have family on both sides of both American Borders, North and South. As in all struggles motivated by greed and power, the politics transcend race. Those of us on the Border know there is a violent revolution underway. Meditate on it.

      Be assured that the K-Street bag men are running Black Market $$$$$$ (drug and otherwise) directly to members of the House and Senate on both the State and National levels. Obama intends to capitulate to the invasion by pushing through another amnesty. No matter what sympathy we hold for the poor honest illegal Mexican worker seeking a job, the question remains: Why isn’t immigration law enforced, and who profits?

      The government spooks and shadowboys who run the “for profit” drug war and inhabit the shadowlands of the of murkey world financial empire, which now seeks absolute control of American Democracy, allow the Mexican Cartels to run “pot farms” in American National Forests. What if the Taliban set up an armed enterprise in the U.S.?

      YOU KNOW!! and I know, sane drug laws and active enforcement of current immmigration law, which included serious prosecution of corporate employers, would end the problem. There is just to much $$$$$ and profit in prisons, illegal drugs and illegal labor. The subversion of American Civil Liberties, the bankrupting of Social Services (think Ca.& Az.) and distruction of the American Cultural fabric serves the overlords.

        REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT!! CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM NOW!! ENFORCE CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAW!! JAIL CORPORATE EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS!! NO MORE AMNESTY EVER!!

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By steve, August 16, 2010 at 10:09 am Link to this comment
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I have lived just across the river in El Paso Texas for several years now but do visit Mexico frequently: at least i did in the past.  There is really not much to add from previous posts.  The situation is bad and seems to be getting worse by the day.  There is just a culture of lawlessness and chaos there which you don’t see in the United States or Canada.  The Drug cartels are horrible but the Government isn’t much better.  Many down here say they are all joined at the hip anyways.  Finally, this does affect us more than what is going on in the Middle East.

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By felicity, August 16, 2010 at 10:07 am Link to this comment

Some of these comments (marines in Mexico) aren’t as
off the wall as they may seem.

Six plus years (as of 2009) later, Iraq has consumed
$1 trillion, killed 4300 Americans.  Given the stated
necessity of the Iraq invasion and subsequent
(intended) reformation of its government, economy and
culture, a like-wise case could be made for invading
and occupying Mexico.  Not to mention that we’d
probably be able to kill off a lot of potential
border-crossers (all in the name of a just and
necessary war, that was our rationale for invading
Iraq, wasn’t it?)

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By ofersince72, August 16, 2010 at 9:16 am Link to this comment

I got the quote right , but the person wrong

it was Gore Vidal,  not Carlin
The United States of Abnesia….....

Minor mistake, but I believe Gore still alive…
so , you know.

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By John, August 16, 2010 at 8:42 am Link to this comment
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Legalize marijuana in the US. This will bring the prices down and take the cartels out of the picture. The cartels get around 60 percent of their profit from the high prices illegal weed brings in.

Starve the cartel beast, legalize weed.

It’s so simple…

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By ofersince72, August 16, 2010 at 8:02 am Link to this comment

We will see…

T H E   A Z T E C   S Y N D O M E

applied with our Mexican relations for the next
several years.

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By ofersince72, August 16, 2010 at 7:59 am Link to this comment

CARLIN properly named America

THE UNITED STATES OF ABNESIA

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By ofersince72, August 16, 2010 at 7:32 am Link to this comment

Patrick Henry,  sooner or later everyones real
intentions are shown…...........


As my mother told me all my life

“The Truth, OFER, It always surfaces.”

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By ofersince72, August 16, 2010 at 7:17 am Link to this comment

“Drug Cartels Block 13 Roadways In Mexican City”

How the hell we know it was DRUG CARTELS??????????????

This is all information designed to show the
destabilization of Mexico, all helped along by the
U.S. government, not only by their NAFTA “treaty”, but
the mercenaries they have paid to go there, the money
they have sent to help destabilized Mexico and their
distortions about Mexican immigration and its causes,

so eventually , their partner in crime, the Mexican
government will ask for U.S. military assitance in quelling the DRUG CARTELS…all nonsense.  Then the
U.S. will , for their help, be awarded the Mexican
Nationalized Oil , which they will turn over to BP.

All the unrest in Mexico is about this and the unemployment caused by U.S. policy…........
SO once again, journalists and the news media got it
all wrong. ON PURPOSE, FOR THEIR MEDIA OVERLORDS.

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By Inherit The Wind, August 16, 2010 at 4:25 am Link to this comment

This problem in Mexico affects America far more than the problems presented by Afghanistan.
*****************************

Now THAT is a statement I can agree with 100%.

Mexico and Canada: Our two closest neighbors, therefore the two nations that should be our BIGGEST concern.

Of the two, a little analysis will reveal that Mexico is FAR more important to us. (sorry, Canada, beautiful nation that you are).
1) Mexico has 111 million people, Canada has 34 million
2) Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking nation in the Americas, and in the world.
3) Mexico is the buffer between the US and all the other Spanish-speaking nations of Central and South America, and has the same immigration issues at her Southern border that the US has.
4) Unlike Canada, our relations with Mexico have been problematic for pretty much our entire existence. 
a) From California to Texas, and everything between them was once part of Mexico and ripped away from that nation.
b) We haven’t fought a war with Canada in 200 years—we’ve been in war or war-like invasions of Mexico up through the teens.
c) Due to blatant exploitation of Mexican resources, US oil companies found their Mexican installations expropriated in the 1930’s, to their fury…“Why can’t we rape Mexico without fear of them striking back???”
d) Mexicans are “different”, Canadians are the “same” as “us” (“us” being Caucasian English-speakers). Yeah, some Canadians are French, but…most speak English (and with delightful accents) and are White.  In case this isn’t clear, it’s our fundamental racism at work.
e) When it comes to drugs, those that come in from Canada are mostly legal prescription drugs, while those from Mexico are basically heroin, marijuana and cocaine—all illegal.
d) There’s no Canadian Tijuana, where guys can go to drink, do drugs, and have all sorts of bizarre sexual encounters—all for money.
e) Canada is basically a law-abiding society.  Mexico is SO corrupt for hundreds of years that people are more willing to trust drug lords than Mexico City.

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By PatrickHenry, August 16, 2010 at 2:53 am Link to this comment

Mexican terrorists.  I guess to the locals they are.

This has more to do about outright control of the law and order in that region and who controls it than with drugs, guns and illegals.

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By Money is funny, August 16, 2010 at 12:03 am Link to this comment

These cartels just need an adviser. I would suggest to them that they need to give a percentage of their proceeds to Pfizer and or Anheuser-Busch, Philip Morris etc. until we leave them alone.

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By Malcontent, August 15, 2010 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment

“We need to lend the Mexican government a couple of Marine regiments and take down these modern day bandits.”

Marines in Mexico, eh?

Cool. We don’t have any Mexican terrorists yet. I mean, that has worked so well in the other countries our military kills people in.

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By PatrickHenry, August 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment

We need to lend the Mexican government a couple of Marine regiments and take down these modern day bandits. 

This problem in Mexico affects America far more than the problems presented by Afghanistan.

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By Malcontent, August 15, 2010 at 12:59 pm Link to this comment

Legalize?

Hmm… Hundreds, perhaps thousands of pathetic addicts shunning the free medical care, that we all could receive with ex-drug war money, and slowly poisoning themselves and breaking their loved ones hearts. (A terrible scenario indeed.)

vs.

Corrupt government, whole cities held hostage to armed gangs. (I guess they are catholic, not muslim, so they are ‘armed gangs’ not ‘terrorists’.) Increased government surveillance, reduced civil liberties, corrupt border patrol, militarized police, corrupt DAs and judges. Criminalization of, often common behaviors and decreased respect for the law. Privatized prisons. Easier access for minors, increased accidental ODs and addicts, just as likely to be harmed legally as helped medically, if they ask for help. Especially if they can’t afford it.

Tough choice.

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