Posted on 09/14/2011 3:04:18 PM PDT by Dallas59
True enough. The cartel (at least one of them) and the Mexican government is one and the same.
...The Hezbollah business empire also extends into the drug trade. The Bekaa Valley, Lebanon’s central agricultural heartland, is controlled by Hezbollah and serves as a major center for growing poppies and cannabis and for producing heroin from raw materials arriving from places like Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. Indeed, Hezbollah controls a commanding percentage of the estimated $1 billion drug trade flowing out of the Bekaa. Much of the hashish and heroin emanating from there eventually arrives in Europe, where Hezbollah members also are involved in smuggling, car theft and the distribution of counterfeit goods and currency. Hezbollah operatives in the Western Hemisphere work with Latin American drug cartels to traffic cocaine into the lucrative markets of Europe, and there have been reports of Hezbollah members dealing drugs in the United States.
In recent years, Hezbollah also has become active in Central America and Mexico, the latter being an ideal place for the Iranians and Hezbollah to operate. Mexico has long been a favorite haunt for foreign intelligence officers from countries hostile to the United States, ranging from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union, due to its close proximity to the United States and its very poor counterintelligence capability. Mexican government sources have told STRATFOR that the ability of the Mexican government to monitor an organization like Hezbollah is very limited. While Mexico has a domestic intelligence capability, it has historically oriented its efforts toward political opponents of the government and not toward foreign intelligence operatives operating on its soil. This is understandable, considering that the foreign intelligence officers are in Mexico because of its proximity to the United States and not necessarily to spy on Mexico. The Mexican government’s limited counterintelligence capacity has been further reduced by corruption and by the substantial amount of resources the Mexican government has been forced to dedicate to the cartel wars currently ravaging the country.
It is also convenient for Hezbollah that there is some degree of physical resemblance between some Lebanese and Mexican people. Mexican citizens of Lebanese heritage (like Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim) do not look out of place when they are on the street. STRATFOR sources say that Hezbollah members have married Mexican women in order to stay in Mexico, and some have reportedly even adopted Spanish names. A Hezbollah operative with a Spanish name who learns to speak Spanish well can be difficult for a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent to spot. American officials often lack the Spanish skills required to differentiate between Spanish speakers with Mexican accents and those with foreign accents.
Most of the Lebanese residing in Mexico are Maronite Christians who fled Lebanon and who are now well assimilated and prosperous in Mexico. Many of the Lebanese Muslims living in Mexico are relatively recent immigrants, and only about half of them are Shia, so the community in Mexico is smaller than it is in other places. Still, Hezbollah will use it to hide operatives. Sources tell STRATFOR that Hezbollah and the Iranians are involved in several small Islamic centers in Mexican cities such as Torreon, Chihuahua City and Monterrey. They also have an active presence in Shiite Islamic centers in border towns on both sides of the border and use these centers to coordinate cross-border smuggling of contraband and operatives...
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100811_hezbollah_radical_rational
“Hezbollah, Radical but Rational is republished with permission of STRATFOR.”
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How does any country with a military above the level of pygmy tribes even let a situation get like this?
Is the Mexican government really so incapable of dealing with these creeps?
Send the military and just start shooting! Trust me, people know who the drug cartel members are...they aren’t that hard to find. Its not as if Mexico has any rule of law left anyway, so just shoot the bastards.
I think the marines need to go in and clear a 100 mile DMZ into mexico from our border. Then we wall it off.
It DOES seem like overnight, doesn’t it. ha-ha...I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
What you said. Is it soup yet?
I agree with you Miss Marmelstein, the world is filled with evil. Believers are at odds with this world's system, and rightfully so. It promotes godlessness, and exclaims that evil is good and good evil. It's okay to hate this system, as one poster commented,God also hates the abominations that are on the increase. Hang in there, stay faithful to the end, and remember you are not alone.
Isaiah 13:11 - And I will punish the world for their evil
You are correct, but as I commented to Miss Marmelstein, the ungodly system that rules the world is what God hates. The world and those in it suffer because of all the evil done in it.
IB4 “It’s Perry’s fault”
Thank you for your kind words. I got really depressed yesterday reading this horror story. It’s good to know that there are others that recognize something is very wrong with the world. Hope to talk to you again.
“You are correct, but as I commented to Miss Marmelstein, the ungodly system that rules the world is what God hates. The world and those in it suffer because of all the evil done in it.”
Both the verses, yours, Is. 13:11, & John 3:16, which I referred to to another poster, are referring to evil men in the world, not the world system. God says He will punish them (the wicked), not that He hated them.
Yikes! Thanks for the ping.
My comment about “overnight” was in context to other posts, not because I lack knowledge of the history of evil in this world, lol.
What differentiates this from “Terrorism”...that we are afraid to use that word?
Another story proving violence in border towns. Following one of the debates recently, a “fact checker” on the Maddow show claimed border towns (like austin Texas - seriously, she said that) were safer than inner cities in the U.S. So gang violence in Philly means we shouldn’t worry along the southern border of the U.S.?
Our country has had an unsuccessful War on Drugs for 40 years, and has prohibited most narcotics for over 80 years. We have two choices: either legalize narcotics, as was the case before 1920, and suffer increased social pathologies due to universal availability of drugs, or scrap the Bill of Rights and ruthlessly go after drug peddlers and users under martial law, with summary executions for peddlers and chain gang type imprisonment for users. Mao used these techniques to root out drugs in Communist China.
Neither is a good alternative. However, the worldwide drug traffic is an issue of supply and demand. The "War on Drugs" has failed to prevent either. Frankly, the bribes offered Mexican and American officials are too lucrative for many civil servants to pass up. Either legalize narcotics or go to the most ruthless measures to stamp it out using the Armed Forces and not the civil authorities.
Unfortunately they are well trained. The core are former Mexican special forces/paramilitary who got turned (due to the money), and the rest are well trained. They are well equipped, with the shock troops being very well equipped. They are also well connected, indicating that one can never really know whether you are talking to a legit cop (as an example) or a cartel member who also happens to be a cop. Furthermore, with the various internal fights between different cartels (and cartel groupings), they tend to have a lot of practice. In conclusion, while they are far from invincible I would still say they are good fighters. Ranging from good to really good.
Now you know exactly who he is controlled by.
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