I was walking along the beach near Mazatlan about 25 years ago and came upon what I thought at the time was a boy scout camp but was really a small mexican army camp.
By noontime sbout half were drunk and it was more like a bad comedy then an army.
Have to believe the narco trafficers would give more of a scrum.
Have to believe the narco trafficers would give more of a scrum.
The narcotrafficantes have a more serious purpose, and accordingly, use more draconian measures both to enforce discipline and instill loyalty, if only the sort of loyalty that can be bought and sold.
Remember that many of the senior officers of the underpaid Mexican Army are deditos [little fingers] in the pay of the cartels, and that by keeping their troops drunk, well-fed and out of the way at certain key times, are rendering aservice for their masters.
While you were watching that display of something less than Mexican military prowness, I wonder what was going on elsewhere....