Mexican Drug Cartels Turn to IEDs to Use Against Army as Drug War Rages On

Newsweak ^ | 2/04/22 | Lora Korpar

[Libloather]

Drug cartels in western Mexico have started using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the ongoing war with the government.

Though Mexican cartels have used explosives, drones and homemade armored cars in the past, the Associated Press reported that this is the first time they have used IEDs, or homemade explosives.

According to a report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, IEDs can take many forms, from a 1-pound explosive stuffed into an envelope to "a sophisticated device capable of causing massive damage and loss of life." Mexican television station Milenio described the IEDs the cartels have used as pipe bombs with a cone-shaped cap that directs the explosion.

AP reported that the city of Tepalcatepec, in western Michoacán state, is currently the center of a self-defense movement against gunmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. A spokesman for the movement, who remained anonymous for his safety, told AP that the cartel used an IED in a Saturday attack against the Mexican army.

[Libloather]

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a 2018 statement that the Jalisco cartel was "one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world, responsible for trafficking many tons of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin into the United States, as well as for violence and significant loss of life in Mexico."

Let's go Brandon.

[nascarnation]

Well the Muslim towelheads were pretty good at this 20 yrs ago so not surprised a crew of braceros could make it work too.

[RBW in PA]

They know how to fight, we don’t.

[Gen.Blather]

“They know how to fight, we don’t.”

Our civilization has become too civilized to succeed.

[TLI]

responsible for trafficking many tons of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin

Why in the world the cartels are not smuggling HCQ and IVM is beyond me.

Their customer base would dramatically increase and the markup would go from 50% - 100% to upwards of thousands of %.

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[sockmonkey]

Gazing into my crystal ball...

Now that Mexico has announced it is going to mine lithium, and no outside countries’ companies will get in on the action, I await the announcement that cartels are out of control, Hezbollah is responsible, and the US must invade.

Trump on Syria: “We’ll take the oil”
Brandon on Mexico version: “We’ll take the lithium”

[laplata]

Now that Mexico has announced it is going to mine lithium, and no outside countries’ companies will get in on the action,

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That pissed off China. Good.

[JonPreston]

Can’t say they weren’t warned

[JimRed]

The powers that be know who the Cartel bosses are and where they live. It would be quite simple to track their movements, wait until they are at home and take them out. Family, servants and staff will be acceptable collateral damage. Do the first few and the others will relocate and find new lines of work.