Posted on 08/21/2025 5:41:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sinaloa is a Mexican state in northwest Mexico. To the west, it's the Pacific Ocean and to the east a couple of other states. The largest city is Culiacan, a city of about a million people and a place that most of us didn't hear much about until a famous cartel came into the news, i.e., the Sinaloa cartel.
In recent days, bullets are flying in Sinaloa because the cartels are fighting each other for territory as well as angry over their leader’s capture. This is the story:
August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any other. But in Sinaloa -- a northwestern state facing the Pacific -- it was no ordinary Sunday. That day, 17 homicides were committed: one every 85 minutes.
According to Mexican government figures, it was the most violent day of 2025 in Sinaloa, exceeding every other state in the country. Sunday’s killings were some of the latest in a spate of violence that has gripped the state following the surprise arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who authorities say is a long-time leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s oldest and most violent criminal organizations.
Since his capture, homicides in Sinaloa have risen by more than 400%, according to an analysis of public data conducted by CNN.
A friend who lives down there told me that it's scary everywhere. As often happens down in Mexico, the bullets often hit innocent people enjoying a coffee, a Saturday night dinner, or even a trip to a shopping center. The shooting is intense.
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Mexico needs to take care of their own problems.
Amen. And we need to complete the wall to keep their problems from becoming our problems. Wire, mines and belt-fed weapons.
Mexico, by all accounts, is a Narco-State. Pulled in many directions be rival cartels.
I think the only way for Mexico to really right itself is for ONE cartel, to essentially take over and merge/ become the government.
> the bullets often hit innocent people enjoying a coffee <
Mexico has very restrictive gun laws. Yes, you can own a firearm. But it is next to impossible to get a permit to carry it in public.
Would the cartels be less bold if they knew those innocent people could fire back?
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“Would the cartels be less bold if they knew those innocent people could fire back?”
The Cartels literally have armies. They are trained soldiers, and armed as well as many national forces of countries.
ONLY a superior military force is a realistic counter to most cartels.
Add the fact that it is an army AND a mafia. If an indiviual kills/ injures a cartel member. If they find “who done it”. it is a very real likelyhood that person’s whole family will be publicly executed to send a message.
Very good points.
I suppose early on an armed citizenry could have been effective. But no longer, for the reasons you stated.
They’re trying, but we keep sending them back.
Mordida - casual everyday graft - the core of pervasive acceptance of corruption in every aspect of Mexican life.
THAT is the problem. Until the virtue of society is held above the mess that exists, there won’t be much change.
The Magnificent Seven was just a movie - the villagers ain’t fighting back, ever.
Mexico needs to take care of their own problems.
We buy their product. It is a problem we share.
Trump putting pressure on the Mexican government to capture terrorist cartel criminals probably created this.
We have been through this scenario before. Mexico had a
long string of PRI corrupt leftist presidents who were part of the cartel business plan.
Then “Club for Growth” PAN (Republican) president Fox won. His focus was on improving the non-cartel economy and not on the cartel or social issues.
Fox was followed by social conservative strict Catholic PAN president who targeted elimination of the cartels. A very bloody period was those 6 years.
In direct reaction against the bloody years Mexican politics swung the other way. Now those bloody years are in the rear view mirror. But the Trump pressure could change that.
As long as demand exists in the US, there will be supply.
Mexico needs to set up a secret Service like Israel to deal with her problems.
Mossad.
Thank GOD Polk said no thank you to taking all of Mexico.
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