Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
by sukilot on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:10PM
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There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
by Teever on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:01PM
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Dude that's how you get the child of American senators kidnapped andmailed back in pieces or another 9/11.
Everything sounds simple in theory until you think of the consequences.
Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
by phobosanomaly on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:24PM
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I think a lot of it has shifted over into meth as well, with the availability of cheap precursors from China, and loose security on ports.
Can't stop it at the source anymore.
Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
by nradov on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:51AM
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In 2019 the Trump administration considered formally designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. They backed off on that approach, but had they gone ahead it probably would have led to drone strikes.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming...
This fella in Texas was selling .50-cals and miniguns straight to the Cartels for years. There are likely many, many more like him.
Mexican think tanks have spent years trying to figure out how the hell to stop the massive flow of weapons into Mexico from Texas and Arizona.
https://www.mexicoevalua.org/mexicoevalua/wp-content/uploads...
US think tanks too, notably David Shirk at USD has done a bunch of work on this.
https://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_g...