Saturday, November 9, 2019

Is Mexico Failing?

Americans were horrified when a Mormon family was recently butchered in Mexico.  Such violence should come as no surprise as Mexico becomes a failed state.  That may be a harsh assessment but when the police and soldiers must don mask for their own safety, the state has failed.   One cartel recently flexed its muscled as it captured a town, beating the Mexican army in open battle, and forcing it to surrender.  Time Magazine (yes, it is still around) reported:


But on Thursday in the Sinaloan city of Culiacan, the cartel gunmen were everywhere. They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their Kalashnikovs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like it was a scene in Syria. They took control of the strategic points in the metro area, shut down the airport, roads, and government buildings and exchanged fire with security forces for hours, leaving at least eight people dead. In contrast, everyone else had to act like ghosts, hiding behind locked doors, not daring to step outside.

And in this unusual battle, the Sinaloa Cartel won. Their uprising was in response to soldiers storming a house on Thursday and arresting Ovidio Guzman, the 28-year old son of convicted kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. In February, the U.S. Justice Department announced it had indicted Ovidio Guzman on trafficking cocaine, marijuana and meth. But after hours of cartel chaos, Mexico’s federal government gave soldiers the go ahead to release him. It capitulated....

 “You can’t fight fire with fire…We don’t want deaths. We don’t want war,” Lopez Obrador said in his morning press conference. “With justice, we will guarantee peace and tranquility in the country.”... Rest of article.
 How brazen was the Sinola Cartel? Cartel gunmen went on search and destroy missions for the families of soldiers.  No one, it appears, is safe from the wrath of the cartels in Mexico. John Davidson reported in The Federalist:

Armed with military-grade weapons and driving custom-built armored vehicles, cartel henchmen targeted security forces throughout Culiacan, launching more than one dozen separate attacks on Mexican security forces. They captured and held hostage eight soldiers, then kidnapped their families. Amid the fighting, an unknown number of inmates escaped from a nearby prison. At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen were injured.

The eight-hour battle ended when government forces, outgunned and surrounded, without reinforcements or a way to retreat, received an order directly from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to release their prisoner and surrender. Lopez Obrador later defended this decision, insisting that his security strategy is working and saying, “Many people were at risk and it was decided to protect people’s lives. I agreed with that, because we don’t do massacres, that’s over.” Column

Culician is a major regional capital in Mexico.    The videos posted below show the battle as it took place.  Some videos are not for the faint of heart.  Consider yourself warned. 

Battle 1 

Battle 2

 Police Chief involved in capture executed in broad daylight.

Officer in arrest shot more than 100 times.

Battle 3

Cartels use 50-cal machine guns

Battle 4 

Battle 5

Cartel reinforcements arrive.

Capture of son

Cartel uses RPG

Cartel takes over mall. People flee in panic.

Soldiers surrender.




19 comments:

Anonymous said...

This will be our next skirmish, it’ll be in Mexican soil with their governments permissible. Is there any oil down there?

Anonymous said...

For all of human history invaders were slain. If you don't slay invaders you get colonized. When white people do it, it's evil. However, for some reason it is okay to invade Europe/USA.

Not only is the West under invasion, but people of European descent aren't allowed to live anywhere else. From Mexico to South Africa, whites are slaughtered.

Anonymous said...

If the Democrats don’t get their heads out and secure the borders this country will be just like Mexico in a very short time

Anonymous said...

Not Mormons in the sense of being members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day i.e. Missionaries-on-bikes, yellow shirt “helping hands” cleaning up after floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters, believe in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, etc This group is a fundamentalist group that left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (“LDS”) likely upset that the LDS faith discontinued the practice of polygamy. (The LDS faith discontinued the practice of polygamy many years ago. See churchofjesuschrist.org) Still a tragedy, and very sad regardless of their faith.

“We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico,” said a spokesperson for the LDS Church named Eric Hawkins, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Though it is our understanding that they are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, our love, prayers and sympathies are with them as they mourn and remember their loved ones,” he continued.

Anonymous said...

As Allen Ginsberg famously wrote: "Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?" I believe little if anything in Time Magazine.

I didn't watch all the videos but I did watch the "fifty caliber" one. NOT fifty caliber. Thirty caliber. Why is that important? Because it calls into question the accuracy of this "news."

Read the comments in Spanish, "armas gringas?" The translation is "gringo guns, how did they get past the border?" We blame them for dope here and they blame us for guns there.

I agree it is an awful tragedy. I agree Mexico has become a hell hole (again?) As a 21 year old -- 54 years ago -- I hitch-hiked to Mexico, rode buses and 2d class cars on the national railroad. Ordinary Mexicans bought me lunch, embraced a kid tourist. I could not have gotten killed if I had tried.

Five or so years ago I thought I'd do it again. What a mistake that was. I parked at the border and rode buses a couple hundred kilometers south. The military presence freaked me out and I cut it short. On the way home I shared a conversation with a young physician who rode the bus rather than drive his Lexus for security reasons. Less likely to be killed and eaten by his neighbors.

If they were more civilized in the first place, i.e., less corrupt, the drug gangs would never have taken hold. If we were more proactive -- controlling our national appetite for dope and a little more intent on seeing Mexico develop economically -- immigration would not have become the problem it is.

Anonymous said...

Mexico can solve all of its problems by making their already strict gun laws even stricter.

Works like a charm every time. Just look at Chicago and Baltimore.

Anonymous said...

mexico is out of control and the drug cartels have more power than the government in many parts of the country. trump has been telling this to the american people for years but anything that trump is correct about does not fit the agenda of the media. the media would rather focus that small country in the caribbean called the dominican republic talking garbage about tourists that have been gassed and /or poisoned. sorry mr news media , but all that talk about the dominican republic was proven to be a total hoax by both the dominican government and even our own FBI. In the mean time the dominican tourist industry suffered a great deal while tourists all went to the 'safe' country of mexico. well, tell me how safe does mexico look now?

Anonymous said...

Please remember that in Mexico it is unlawful for a citizen to own a firearm. The law abiding people are now sheep with no sheep dog to protect them.

Joan Quigley said...

Just say no!

Albert Schweitzer md said...

Wrong headline: the gerundive (failing) gives the idea this process is not complete.
Correct: Mexico has failed. It is now an abusive narcostate.
We are left with often spineless republicans and often evil democrats.
And the dimms, with their heads so far up their asses they are looking at their
Appendices, want this country to have no borders so this wonderful country
Can become another Mexico. Pure insanity!

Anonymous said...

California is experienced cartel violence also. A sheriff's deputy was murdered by a cartel member two weeks ago in Placerville, CA. The Sheriff and the U.S. Attorney are outraged about what is going on.

When California legalized pot, including large scale pot farms, using the theory that this change in the law would eliminate the "black market."

Not.

The cartel is now running the pot farms and smuggling the pot out of state to states where it is illegal.

Why take the risk of growing the pot in Mexico, combined with the additional risk of smuggling the pot into the U.S., when they can grow their crops in plain sight in California?

Anonymous said...

What's the difference in Mexico and Baltimore, Toledo, parts of Chicago, Milwaukee, L.A and Philly? If Obama had managed a third term, we would see this in the streets of every major US city. Every damned one.

Anonymous said...

"...a little more intent on seeing Mexico develop economically"

What else could we have done, 6:00 a.m.? You did hear that 'giant sucking sound', did you not? Do you think we had/have an obligation to raise all the planet's children, not to mention the adults?

Maybe now that your in your mid 70s you can join Catholic Charities, Amnesty International and the ACLU and do your part to turn America into the shit-hole it's becoming.

This is why we can’t have nice things said...

@11:01 am
Not sure if serious

Anonymous said...

Mexico is a sewer. Seal the border, and place a 50% tax on all wire transfers from this country to that one.

Then start deporting illegals.

Treat Mexico like an invading army. This is a war.

Anonymous said...

Hell i thought this was High St. in Jackson,Ms. My bad.

Anonymous said...

11:27 - I posted at 11:01 and am dead serious. And millions agree. You don't?

Cynical Sam said...

@1:56 PM - spot on.

Anonymous said...

Large parts of Mexico are really nice and safe. The areas closest to the corrupting influence of the USA's insatiable desire for drugs and US arms are not. I'm going to Mexico City in a couple of weeks for a vacation and am looking forward to walking the tree-lined streets of Condesa and Roma Norte amid fashionable Art Deco buildings and eating at some of the stunning number of world-class restaurants there. This will be around my 15th trip to Mexico. Generalizing to the entirety of a very large country paints a misleading picture. I'm sure that hatred of Mexicans plays a part in this.


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