It must not be an important story. After all, I've never seen it covered on the national MSM.
Posted on 09/20/2011 11:27:12 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The aol ticker feed provides the above headline, which, when clicked on, has the following:
Mexico says key drug cartel figure arrested Updated: Sep 20, 2011 - 11:15AM Text Size ----
AP MEXICO CITY -The Mexican army says it has captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico.
Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas says Saul Solis Solis was captured Monday in the western state of Michoacan, where the cartel was born. It split from La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
Villegas said Tuesday that Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar and is involved in various attacks on soldiers and federal police.
Mexico's attorney general had offered a $1.1 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Solis is a cousin of one of the gang's main alleged leaders, Enrique Plancarte Solis.
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The tooth fairy.
Damn! Those are big honkers!
I think Mexico is in danger of becoming another Somalia.
Mexico has no death penalty.
truck in the middle of the road
CAUTION GRAPHIC pictures:
Translated to english:
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I wonder how many were killed with Fast&Furious firearms?
That place is a mess.
“Both groups claim to be devoted to God and to be fighting poverty and injustice under a strict code of conduct.”
Astonishing. This indicates a desire to become populist; looking for popular support by having a marketing arm. One of the articles said the recently captured man had been a candidate for the “Green” party. I’m wondering if Green means the same in Mexico as it does in the US? (Florescent light bulbs, low-flush toilets, and solar power.)
Unfortunately, attempts to enforce the drug laws by attacking cartels have created the perfect free-market. The original cartels in the ‘70’s were so powerful that nobody dared to go into the drug business in competition. But as the DEA/ATF/Mexican authorities took out the major players, they opened the marketplace to smaller and smaller players. There’s so much money involved even on a small scale and poverty is so high in Mexico that even a small player gets rich in weeks. Each small player is able to hire an army and attempts to wipe out the other players as well as attacking the police. With two or three thousand dollars you could hire people to kill others in Mexico.
The drug beast is like the hydra, the mythical beast where if you cut off one head it immediately grows two more to replace it. The hydra is fed by US money and Mexican poverty. US drug policy has reduced the cost of drugs in the US by making the market more efficient. Perhaps the DEA should limit themselves to intercepting drugs in the US and allow the cartels to coalesce into one strangling big operation again. That will act to slow the marketplace and limit the amount of drugs that can be handled. Big cartels with no competition are inefficient and also, with no competition, they’ll raise prices. Higher prices will serve to limit drug consumption in the US. Everybody wins. But with the current “War On Drugs” everybody loses.
It must not be an important story. After all, I've never seen it covered on the national MSM.
I am so darned glad we won the War on Drugs. Ever since the victory parade, you just can’t hardly find any of those bad ol’ drugs around any more. Hooray!!
It does now. Pissing off a drug lord in the third degree = death sentence.
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