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Mexico's drug war rocks U.S. expat stronghold
Yahoo News ^ | 06/17/12 | Robert Ramirez

Posted on 06/18/2012 8:07:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

For decades, American and Canadian expats have flocked to the shores of Chapala, seeking refuge in the spring-like climate of Mexico's largest natural lake, where English author D.H. Lawrence once came for inspiration. But the calm of the clustered lakeside retreats was shattered last month when suspected drug-gang hitmen kidnapped a group of Mexican locals and dumped 18 decapitated bodies in two vehicles just miles (kilometers) from the lakeside tourist enclave of Ajijic. The explosion of violence followed months of escalating tension in a turf war between the Sinaloa and Zetas drug cartels that has spread from smuggling routes in the north to the fringes of Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cartels; drugs; drugwar; mexico; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
"We're hoping it was an isolated tragedy,"...

Yeah...It's isolated until your head ends up rolling down the street.

1 posted on 06/18/2012 8:07:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Wonder if this is where Jesse Ventura finds his vast freedoms?


2 posted on 06/18/2012 8:09:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

In Baja somewhere...


3 posted on 06/18/2012 8:14:09 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

‘No one under 30 to be deported’

MSM, ‘Did Jalo get her haircut this weekend’?


4 posted on 06/18/2012 8:14:49 AM PDT by doc
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
'I ain't got no body, and no body cares for me.'
5 posted on 06/18/2012 8:24:20 AM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: tumblindice

It’s anybodies world...


6 posted on 06/18/2012 8:28:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I visited this area several years ago, back when Bush was President. You couldn’t believe the hate filled leftists that made up the majority of the ex-pat community. I went to a party at one of the hotels and the “I hate Bush” anti-American talk chased me out within 15 minuets.

I guess too much multicultural diversity is not all that it is cracked up to be.


7 posted on 06/18/2012 8:41:21 AM PDT by Random Access
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I wouldn’t visit Mexico for a day never mind live there.


8 posted on 06/18/2012 8:51:02 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

Agreed...I would not travel anywhere in mexico.


9 posted on 06/18/2012 8:56:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Random Access

I figured most of them would be retired teachers from whack left universities.


10 posted on 06/18/2012 8:58:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Random Access

They can have the damn place! I can get just as good margaritas here.


11 posted on 06/18/2012 9:00:53 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
a turf war between the Sinaloa and Zetas drug cartels

The War on Drugs: channeling hyperinflated profits into violent criminals' hands for 30 years, and still going strong. (TM)

12 posted on 06/18/2012 10:56:56 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

...Which is why we’re hearing about the “plight” of these poor, poor, people...Now, if it’s American’s being murdered by illegals...crickets.


13 posted on 06/18/2012 12:45:19 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Obama is so busy with Executive orders & reaping praise from Mexico..(AP) LOS CABOS, Mexico — Mexico’s president is praising President Barack Obama for having the “courage” to limit the deportation of some young illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/mexico-praises-obama-courage-on-illegals/?cat_orig=us

How many fast and furious guns will be aimed at Americans ?


14 posted on 06/19/2012 6:15:32 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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