Mexico's Cartels Escalate Drug War (militias, whose tactics include beheadings ... border wall ?)

LaTimes ^ | June 23, 2006 | Richard Marosi

[IrishMike]

TIJUANA — The caller painted an ominous scene: A convoy of 40 vehicles carrying 70 heavily armed and masked men was prowling the streets of Rosarito Beach on Tuesday evening. The three police officers who arrived were quickly abducted. The next morning, their mutilated bodies turned up in an empty lot.

Their heads were found in the Tijuana River later that day.

The assault is believed to be one of the largest in Baja California, and is the latest in a series of precisely executed paramilitary operations that have beset Mexican cities as drug cartels escalate their battles to control key smuggling routes.

With Mexican authorities relying more heavily on the military to combat drug smuggling, traffickers have responded in kind, forming large forces of assailants and arming them with frightening arrays of weaponry. ......Cartels also are using increasingly brutal methods to intimidate their enemies. The Rosarito Beach beheadings followed the decapitation in April of a police commander in Acapulco, whose head was found in a public plaza.

[IrishMike]

I think I would be more likely to take a vacation in Iraq than Mexico.

[OpusatFR]

It would make sense that the Islamofascists are making common cause with the drug lords to fund the Jihad as more and more interdiction occurs in the banking and transfer of electronic cash worldwide. The have made inroads in the Central American countries and South America.

Decapitation is a signature of the jihadists so I'd look very hard at exactly who is involved in this on our border.

Now, can we control borders...? Or is that too much to ask.

[Little Ray]

Tell me again why we don't want to wall off Mexico?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Looks like the drug legalization lobby in Mexico are making progress...

[JimRed]

TIJUANA — The caller painted an ominous scene: A convoy of 40 vehicles carrying 70 heavily armed and masked men was prowling the streets of Rosarito Beach on Tuesday evening. The three police officers who arrived were quickly abducted. The next morning, their mutilated bodies turned up in an empty lot.

Send three cops to deal with 70 individuals in 40 vehicles? And where was the Mexican Army? Oh, yes; right there in those 40 vehicles!

[seasoned traditionalist]

And where was the Mexican Army?

Uh Uh.

They were on the border assisting drug smugglers and other illegals to cross into US

Why ANYONE would want to travel/visit/vacation in Mexico, is beyond me.

Hit Nuevo Laredo a few times when I was stationed in Austin Tx., in late 60's and had a good time and took family to Tijuana (once was enough) in late 80's.

But things have changed.

Now, you couldn't pay me to step across that border.

[spectre]

These beheadings aren't far from home.

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[Phantom Patriot]

One Texas Ranger could have handled everything just fine.

[robowombat]

"It's a disturbing manifestation of the latest drug war frenzy…. The militarization of the drug war in many ways on the side of law enforcement has corresponded with the militarization of tactics and personnel on the criminal side," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego."

Prof Shirk should check out some past history. This is just a new manifestation of the Mexican Bandito phenomenon in which large bands of heavily armed criminals operate openly and either co opt the authorities through making alliances or openly go to war with the authorities. To some degree this sort of thing has happened since the Mexican War of Independence crated innumerable armed bands whose loyalty was only to their leader. When the government grows weak or becomes massively penetrated with camirrilas of politicos who are purely devoted to plunder the bandits emerge from the shadows and begin to openly wage war on the authorities to carve out space where they can operate openly. This is part of the Mexicanization process that I contend will inevitably come to the US with the effective Mexicanization of the political culture of the Southwest via mass immigration from the south both legal and illegal.

[IrishMike]

...Now, can we control borders...? Or is that too much to ask.....


Completely agree, see the thread title, and what I added.

[IrishMike]

...Tell me again why we don't want to wall off Mexico?...

Not me sir, I'm too stupid because I cannot come up with an answer as to why it was not closed previously, or any reason why it shouldn't be done now. Contact one of our DC beltway elite for an answer.
Sorry I couldn't help.

[IrishMike]

...Send three cops to deal with 70 individuals in 40 vehicles? And where was the Mexican Army? Oh, yes; right there in those 40 vehicles!.....


Good probability you're right on the money.

[radar101]

Yes--what is the difference...Mexico or Iraq?

[IrishMike]

...Yes--what is the difference...Mexico or Iraq?


Other than Turbans VS Sombreros... NONE

[redgolum]

I fear these drug gangs are getting influenced by islamics.

[ncountylee]

Partied many times in Rosarito Beach but no longer cross the border even in the Newport Beach/Ensenada sailboat (largest number of boats) race.