Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen

Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by ardy42 on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:53PM (#23877446)

> It blow my mind that there are multiple organizations that are so large and well armed that even the Mexican government won't touch them. Keep in mind that the Mexican military has the 17th most active duty personnel in the world and spent $7 billion last year, and still isn't willing to take on drug cartels stomping on their own sovereign territory.

But if the real problem is your army is corrupt, no quantity of guns and personnel will fix that.

As far as I know, the cartels are closer to an asymmetric military adversary, and have subverted the Mexican state rather than defeating it directly.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by bob33212 on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:39PM (#23877813)

When everyone knows that they can either get paid off or get killed most people choose to be paid off.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by dylan604 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:33PM (#23878425)

It is an either/or situation. Neither is not an option. Not taking the money means you can't be trusted not to talk, you still get killed.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by dzamo_norton on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:13PM (#23899242)

And the final possibility, namely both, probably happens a fair bit.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by nradov on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:30PM (#23878414)

"Plata o plomo" (silver or lead)

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by posterboy on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:00AM (#23880313)

Plata o diploma

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by mycall on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:55PM (#23884317)

Perhaps Mexico is in need of some good ole UN liberation forces.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by smsm42 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:58AM (#23887121)

Judging from the past examples, they'd be corrupted at lightning speed - who wants to risk their life in some foreign country by playing a saint when all local "government" officials around you are on the take? What would motivate one to resist? The locals have patriotism, caring for their community and making better country, but foreign forces are just paid to do a job - so somebody could pay them 10x to do a different job or just to look the other way. It happened to UN forces many times.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by amelius on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:24AM (#23881254)

But what if you took down their communications?

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