Posted on 10/24/2009 11:10:48 PM PDT by Saije
MATAMOROS, Mexico — This border city near the mouth of the Rio Grande is eerily quiet on most days — eerie because its streets are largely the lair of the Zetas gunmen, the most feared and savage gangsters in Mexico.
On other days, gunbattles ensue in broad daylight between heavily armed Zeta enforcers and those who get in their way — as happened last month when soldiers stopped a suspicious carload of men on a street that runs along the Rio Grande levee through a wealthy Matamoros neighborhood. The gunmen opened fire, tossed grenades. Bullets tore into houses and businesses and even flew across the Rio Grande, hitting buildings and a parked car at the riverfront campus of the University of Texas branch campus.
“We have this fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said anthropologist Tony Zavaleta, the acting provost of the University of Texas at Brownsville, whose family has lived on both sides of the Rio Grande for centuries. Military-style tactics
Zeta cells have attacked Mexico towns in platoon-strength numbers; fought hours-long skirmishes with Mexican troops in the streets here and in Monterrey and other cities; massacred hundreds of competitors, often beheading and dismembering them; and assassinated police chiefs and local politicians.
Employing military-style tactics and frightening firepower, the Zetas have transformed Mexican drug trafficking from a law enforcement problem into what seems an invincible criminal insurgency.
“These are not your everyday assassins,” said Luis Astorga, an expert on Mexico's narcotics trade and the gangsters who control it. “This is more like an urban guerrilla organization.”
Originally formed by army special forces deserters, the Zetas have rained terror this decade upon much of the country as they battle criminal rivals, the army and police for drug-smuggling routes to U.S. consumers.
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We trained them. That is why they are the best.
“We trained them. That is why they are the best.”
I wondered about that.
Hire these guys to replace the permanently laid off cops.
Yes, the sooner the better. Remember the book Clear and Present Danger? Same sit, different characters. Kill them all with extreme prejudice. I’m starting to think its a tactic my local law enforcement should use on the degenerate gangs invading my area. I personally would have no problem if a positive ID was made, they would just be shot. They have nothing to offer society at all.
The problem is that we have too many, in both parties, who would give the Zetas (along with all illegals)...Amnesty.
You wonder if the pro-illegal/anti-American crowd is being bought off by the drug cartels.
Illegal Alien Amnesty is Anti-American Bigotry. All illegals should be deported. This will lessen the problem with Drug-Cartel gangs
It needs to be done Los Pepes style :(
The beard trained many of them cuz.
Once the city is deserted, install military checkpoints to all entrances and exists and then have the helicopters remove the radiation sources, and search the city for an weapons.
City cleaned.
Ping!
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