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

Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by cookie_monsta on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:41PM (#23877827)

A few years ago there was a live news broadcast on Mexican TV of a running downtown street battle between the cops/feds/army and one of the cartels. I think it was in Juarez. We watched in real time as the state forces retreated, outmanned and outgunned.

It's so different to the reality that most of us inhabit that it's hard to imagine.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by jwilber on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:56PM (#23878274)

Less than a year ago a cartel literally out-gunned the government to recapture the cartel head’s son from the police [0].

They literally overpowered and brought the city to a standstill.

They run Mexico, no illusions anymore. Still a beautiful place to visit fwiw.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiacán

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by ponker on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:07AM (#23879646)

Going for a capture rather than a kill was the core mistake in this operation. Shoulda just droned him.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by licebmi__at__ on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:01PM (#23878301)

It might have been Sinaloa, where the police captured one of the sons of "El chapo". There was actually something fishy about that event, and some even think it was a setup of the local government against the federal government.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by cookie_monsta on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:16PM (#23878365)

No doubt there was extreme fishiness involved. One common trait of most corrupt societies is the concentration of power at the top of the pyramid, and how the same few names and families keep popping up all over the landscape.

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