Mexico finds cartels making fake military uniforms

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[Perdogg]

- Mexican marines say they have found a clandestine workshop in northern Mexico where presumed drug traffickers made copies of military uniforms.

The navy says hundreds of camouflage pants, shirts and vests were found at the workshop in the northern border city of Piedras Negras., across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.

The uniforms are part of an effort by criminal gangs to damage the reputation of the marine corps, the navy said Thursday.

[SkyDancer]

Copy/intimation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[Crapgame]

Actually there could be something to this. For a long time the Mexican Army has been as corrupt as the society at large. However the Mexican Navy and Marines have always been regarded as more professional and if not beyond corruption, then certainly more difficult to infiltrate.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It seems to me that it would be cheaper to invade northern Mexico, seize control of the northernmost 5/10/20 miles and create a dematerialized zone of sorts (even offer it to UN control), which could act as a buffer/filter/control mechanism. Obviously everything tried to date has not worked, and anything which relies on the corrupt culture and government of Mexico will fail. The costs of the status quo are enormous.

The NYT piece on Walmart was a classic. They take a lot of time and space to criticize Walmart for conceding to the culture of corruption there and paying bribes, but they just don’t seem to have the time to illuminate and criticize the endemic corruption of Mexico itself. Walmart bad, Mexico (impliedly) OK. Ugh.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

That’s “de-militarized”.

[buffaloguy]

Apparently the cartels are cleaning people out of their homes along a very long strip that is about 10 miles deep. In effect, they are creating their own demilitarized zone.