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Violent drug gang threatens US tourists and Kash Patel in terrifying message after raids and weapons seizures
The Daily Mail UK ^ | October 8, 2025 | Brittany Chain

Posted on 10/13/2025 7:45:29 AM PDT by Twotone

Violent cartel members have threatened US tourists in Mexico in an effort to send a warning to FBI Director Kash Patel as the administration continues to crack down on drug and weapons trades.

Extraordinary banners have been erected in Baja California responding to recent raids and weapons seizures conducted by the FBI.

The messages claim that starting Sunday, cartel gunmen from the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel will begin targeting US citizens who are in Mexico with violence.

In particular, tourists and Americans living in Cabo San Lucas and San Jose have been warned they will be targeted.

Written in Spanish, the warnings state: 'You will be the ones to blame. We'll show how we'll make this war starting 5/10/2025 on all Americans residing in areas where we have a presence… especially those living in San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.

'We are the ones who rule here and we'll demonstrate what we are capable of if you don't stop arresting our people and decommissioning our loads and weapons.'

Cartels are known to hang 'narco banners' from bridges and overpasses in an effort to deliver a message to governments or their rivals.

But Christian Agúndez Gómez, mayor of San Jose del Cabo maintained there is no credible proof of the existence of the banners.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202510; 20251005; agundezgomez; cabosanlucas; cartels; crime; drugs; kashpatel; loschapitos; overpassbanners; overpasses; sanjose; sinaloa; sinaloacartel; smuggling; terrorism; threats
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1 posted on 10/13/2025 7:45:29 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Is it time for cruise missiles into Mexico?


2 posted on 10/13/2025 7:49:36 AM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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To: Right Brother

US tourists in Mexico
Why?


3 posted on 10/13/2025 7:53:50 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: Twotone

Sounds like a declaration of war.


4 posted on 10/13/2025 7:59:13 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Twotone

Any American in Mexico right now is stupid.


5 posted on 10/13/2025 8:00:50 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: larryjohnson

The cartels and drug gangs would be the targets.


6 posted on 10/13/2025 8:01:01 AM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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To: Twotone

Weapons seizures? FBI?

Doesn’t the FBI operate in the United States?

Why are cartels in Baja bent out of shape about something going on in the United States and not in Mexico?


7 posted on 10/13/2025 8:02:34 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Twotone

Mexicans in the USA send more than $63 BILLION DOLLARS a year back to Mexico.

Just stop Mexicans in America from sending money to Mexico until the Mexican government gets control of their own country.

Better yet - just shut down all transfers of money by individuals to every other country FOREVER!!!


8 posted on 10/13/2025 8:02:58 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Dunning-Kruger Effect Simplified: Stupid People Are Too Stupid To Realize They're Stupid)
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To: larryjohnson

Maybe they are not classic lookie-loo tourists. Maybe only there to get high, on drugs, alcohol, and weed. Then there is sex tourism.
No overriding reason to go to Mexico. Maybe the mex. Govt. will realize that decent tourist dollars help more people than cartel dollars. Not holding my breath.


9 posted on 10/13/2025 8:04:52 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Twotone

Hey Mexico take care of this , Oh wait ,LOL


10 posted on 10/13/2025 8:05:18 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Twotone

> Violent cartel members have threatened US tourists in Mexico… <

Here’s an idea. Do not vacation in Mexico. There are plenty of nice places in the US to visit. Sandy beaches, mountain trails, etc.

Sure, it might be a be a bit more expensive. But, hey. What’s a safe and peaceful vacation worth?

🇺🇸


11 posted on 10/13/2025 8:05:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Getready

We have some well to do friends who go to Mexico...they are in their 70s...I think they have a timeshare there.


12 posted on 10/13/2025 8:06:50 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: larryjohnson

US tourists in Mexico Why?


A good question and a fair one. The fact is that there are many places in Mexico that are quite beautiful and pleasant that give the illusion of safety and normality. So people go there thinking they are quite safe. If the cartels follow through on their threats, tourists and ex-pats will quickly leave.

What happens after that, I have no idea.


13 posted on 10/13/2025 8:11:21 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: larryjohnson

There are many Americans living in Mexico. Until the last decade or so Mexico has been an American retirement haven. The gangs have left the American residents alone in a deal with the government because of the money that comes to Mexico with those expatriates. That, I believe, is beginning to change as the cartels take more and more control of the government through bribes and intimidation.


14 posted on 10/13/2025 8:15:24 AM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l ._)
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To: Twotone

My daughter has to travel to Mexico at times for her job. She is provided with a guard. LORD have mercy and protect her and other Americans who must travel there.


15 posted on 10/13/2025 8:15:41 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Twotone

Any deaths of Americans by cartel thugs is the direct fault of the people financing them....American drug users. Kick them, in thanks.


16 posted on 10/13/2025 8:16:33 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: packagingguy

The Cartel bosses think they own a slice of the USA now and that it will continue to increase. Biden insured that the Gangs, hell more and more they are guerrilla organizations, would get astrong foothold here. Now they think they own an expanding piece of us.


17 posted on 10/13/2025 8:17:47 AM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l ._)
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To: Twotone

The Narcos or narco terrorists are true psychopaths and seems all CA Dems have been corrupted by them. Yup, seems like war unless demand for their product dried up,. That’d be the best scenario. Maybe they could go back to growing produce.


18 posted on 10/13/2025 8:18:17 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Twotone
Americans, stop doing drugs. You are empowering the Cartels.
19 posted on 10/13/2025 8:19:12 AM PDT by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Party.)
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To: Mariner

“Any American in Mexico right now is stupid.”

I completely agree.

My brother spent three weeks
in the Mediterranean recently.
The last part of the trip was
seven days in Italy.

They left a couple of days after the
P.m. said she’s not recognizing Palestine.
And riots went up everywhere.

I had to worry about him the whole time.

My husband is French (came through
Ellis Island when he was three).
He wants to visit France.

I’m like OK have a good time.


20 posted on 10/13/2025 8:20:19 AM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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