Posted on 07/05/2021 2:56:47 PM PDT by BeauBo
Mexican authorities are bracing for more border violence in the coming days as rival cartels fight for lucrative smuggling routes. In recent weeks, cartel gunmen killed more than 15 innocent victims and a dozen rivals.
The most violent shootout took place Tuesday morning when gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas rolled into Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas (West of McAllen Texas, across from Roma), and clashed with members of the Gulf Cartel. While the shootout took place under cover of darkness, by daylight residents reported the discovery of nine bodies strewn along a highway leading into the city.
According to local residents, the shooting went on for more than an hour without any interference despite a Mexican Army building less than two miles away from the scene. The lack of military involvement comes as residents and state officials claim Mexican federal authorities are not clashing with gunmen.
Miguel Aleman is controlled by the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel. Their territories expand east to the border city of Reynosa. The Metros are currently fighting on two fronts with the CDN-Los Zetas pushing from the west, while another faction of the Gulf Cartel from Matamoros is encroaching from the east.
On June 19, Gulf Cartel gunmen from the Matamoros faction rolled into Reynosa and killed 15 innocent victims. Military forces and federal authorities did not respond until after the shooting.
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Better to let them kill each other as much as they can, and then hunt down the survivors, when the Military can control the conditions of the engagement.
UPDATE: That is just what happened after this shootout as well. The Military literally tracked down the group of gunmen who invaded the local territory (Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas) in the days after, by identifying the tire tracks of the specially armored vehicles they drive. They tracked them to their rural hideout, came with overwhelming force, and flushed them out of the house when they were unprepared, killing five while losing none of their own, and capturing a bunch of their gear and intelligence materials.
The cartels are better armed than the Mexican Military, from what I’ve read, the cartels are fairly sophisticated using encrypted radios, .50 cal machine guns, anti-aircraft capable of shooting down helicopters, armored vehicles, etc...
It makes you wonder if the cartels ever got together and operated collectively what damage could they do..
Back in the 1920s and 1930s in the USA, the Italian Mafia was constantly fighting each other, Lucky Luciano somehow got them all together and formed the commission and 5 families to settle disputes...the italian mafia combined with prohibition took off...
If the Cartels ever did something similar it would be unbelievable what damage they could do..
The Military literally tracked down the group of gunmen who invaded the local territory (Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas)
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Looks like that segment of the Mexican Mil works for Los Zetas
Pull quote: “ rival cartels fight for lucrative smuggling routes”. Thanks to Joseph Stolen they are lucrative. Add human trafficking to drug smuggling. Next, if the Commies here ever get the gun control they want, firearms smuggling will be another lucrative business. Look for the Mexican military to be in on it.
They're gonna run out of customers one way or another.
Next, if the Commies here ever get the gun control they want, firearms smuggling will be another lucrative business
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Behind the times - it already is.
We need a Predator II situation at the border. Wish we could get a message out... “Fully stocked game preserve. Quarry heavily armed. No bag limit. Will provide cattle and lodging”.
The Mexican Military still greatly out-guns the cartels, but the cartels are stepping up to paramilitary-like firepower. As you mentioned; encrypted radios, .50 cal machine guns, and light armored vehicles.
Anytime and anywhere the Military decides however, they can swoop in and kill everybody who is home - so the cartels need to pay up, and not buck the Military, when it puts it foot down.
When they do go after cartel gunmen (which is pretty frequently in practice), it is pretty much gloves off and guns blazing.
They get a lot of help ...
Worse Than Fast and Furious? State Dept. Allegedly Sold Guns to Zetas
“They’ve found anti-aircraft weapons and hand grenades from the Vietnam War era,” Plumlee said. Other weapons found include grenade launchers, assault rifles, handguns and military gear including night-vision goggles and body armor.
What? Gov’t Let Cartel Smuggle Drugs in Exchange for Intel?
DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.
DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
businessinsider Jan. 13, 2014
Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to 'Look the Other Way' on Drug Cartels December 31, 2016
Well, the Military did shoot up one side of the conflict.
But in addition to the highly likely payoffs that occur in Mexico, it is also an economy of force measure to take on the small and wounded invading force, rather than the larger and entrenched local cartel.
If you just want to stop the War in the streets, finishing off the smaller side would work, and probably cost fewer of your own guys’ lives.
where are all the stronger-than-men women finishing off the cartel fighters?
Right? In the movies, any lightly armed 98 lb. girl can wipe out a gang of 20 muscular, vicious, heavily armed men. Just send all your 98 pound girls in to fight. It would be over in about an hour and a half.
To Police:
Lo siento. Pensamos que era Chicago.
Sorry. We thought it was Chicago.
When we had 2 prisoners fighting in the prison I worked at we didn’t just jump right in. As long as there were no weapons involved we waited for backup to show. This allowed the guys to tire themselves out a bit before we intervened. I see this as something similar: let them fight so they’ll be tired when the army does jump in.
CC
“let them fight so they’ll be tired”
...and less of them.
A lot of cartel members are former Mexican military.
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