Mexico Drug Cartels Attack Social Media Users

Latin America News Dispatch:

The bloodied bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging from a bridge in the northeast Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo Tuesday, along with two posters left nearby warning social media users about reporting on the drug war.

Read the whole story: Latin America News Dispatch

Comments

[tedhices]

09:01 AM on 09/18/2011

How much more of this violence before we finally end "The War on Drugs"? This is the 30's mobsters. Take away the cartels revenue source and the cartels wont be fighting over shipping routes.

[nutsaccoupe63]

04:28 AM on 09/16/2011

WHY ARENT THE LIBS DOWN THERE MARCHING FOR ACCEPTANCE

[Jayjaybe]

02:59 AM on 09/18/2011

You're plopped on your couch with a fresh bowl of popcorn to watch, huh?

[w7o7l7f7]

09:17 PM on 09/15/2011

uhh, actually if you tally up the nightly toll of drug related deaths in the U.S.,, we still have Mexcico beat by far...eom

[ansonlytle]

07:36 PM on 09/15/2011

We should find out if they have enough guns. If not, we can post on Eric Holder's Facebook to send another batch.

[Mr Bobo]

05:17 PM on 09/15/2011

The Zetas and the rest of the cartels can kiss my a**!

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

05:00 PM on 09/15/2011

looneydoone wrote 12:56 PM, "Here's something for you to ponder *Mexicans* are First Nations (Native American) people. DNA proves it. http://mexidata.info/id1442.html

1] Nope. Your website, "The Mexican racial breakdown is officially presented as 9 percent white, 60 percent mestizo (Indigenous-European hybrid), 30 percent Indigenous, and 1 percent other."

That means 70% of Mexico are descendants of Europe. There are people in the USA that are 1/16 or 1/8 or 1/4th descended of a tribe often described as a Native American Indian, but the remainder of those same individuals are also descended of Europe, but they usually refer to themselves as either Americans or of European descent or a "little Cherokee as well". They do not omit the European descent, and claim to be 100% Native American Indian

2] Your website omitted where they received that information, it comes from here http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf where they state on Page 196 of the white paper or page 12 of the PDF pages

"Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay, in which the majority population are between 91% and 70%, mestizo"

[In the report it is written as, "Por otro lado, se encuentran los países mestizos:México, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Paraguay; en los cuales la población mayoritaria, en tre 91% y 70%, es mestiza.]

Which means that some 70% to 91% of Mexico are descended from Europe. At a minimum they are a European-Indian, just like we describe African-Americans, or Italian-Americans, or Irish-Americans, when they really may be a mixture of national heritages, and not 100% Italian, etc. They are not an indigenous Indian.

3] Only about 10% to 30% of Mexico can claim to be indigenous, and that does not mean they are descended from, or even closely descended from, the Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, Yavapais, Sinaguas, Apache, Zuni, Lipan, Yuman, Maricopa, Achomawi, Havasupai, Atsugewi, Miwok, Moquis, Ute, Hualapai, Paiute, Comanches, etc

The 10-30% are descended from the Maya, Olmec, Toltec, Aztec (primarily Chichimec and Mixtec), and the Zapotec, tribes (MOTAZ). MOTAZ did not refer to their home lands as the land known as the USA today. To the contrary, all evidence archaeologically, anthropologically, and even sociologically points to the MOTAZ being from the lands referred to today as Central America and the Northern edge being 25 degrees North latitude, or roughly where Parras de la Fuente, Mexico is.

[altsc22]

10:56 PM on 09/15/2011

And your point is?

[nutsaccoupe63]

04:20 AM on 09/16/2011

WHO CARES?

[TAIsabel]

03:59 PM on 09/15/2011

Somalia of the Americas. Just earlier this week, I shared a NYC subway car with one of these criminals. His tattoos were unmistakeable, his demeanor disgusting.

[paige mcghan]

12:55 PM on 09/25/2011

AND WHAT DID YOU? YOU DID NOTHING. YOU SUFFERED A FOOL AND YOU ARE A COWARD FOR THAT.

[clearwaterclearmind]

03:48 PM on 09/15/2011

thanks american prohibition.

the cartel's power, methods, and bodycount lie entirely on the shoulders of those who keep marijuana illegal to protect the profits of plastics and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

not to mention our own government's drug trafficking to finance projects no american would stand for.

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

03:37 PM on 09/15/2011

Mexico - the narco state that just keeps on giving

[looneydoone]

04:09 PM on 09/15/2011

United States of America...the largest consumer market for drugs on the planet that just keeps on demanding more drugs

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

04:32 PM on 09/15/2011

Hang around, I have more for you champ

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

05:36 PM on 09/15/2011

You should feel good, evidently under this news article today I am not permitted to address you...I have some 7,000 comments, hardly any deletions, but I am not being permitted to respond. Funny, they let you address me, but I am not permitted to address you.

Double standard that will eventually cause big problems in North America. looneydoone, if you are doing the mod, show you have some integrity or character and permit my replies to appear.

[looneydoone]

04:53 PM on 09/15/2011

Redeye
Your reply is in my message box, but not yet posted
To which I ask "what more do you have" for me "champ" ?
In past you have accused me of being an illegal in *your* country...of human smuggling, and of drug trafficking. None of which is true, it's simply slander. I have no interest in chatting it up with a person like yourself

By the way, my tribal affiliation is Rappahannock...how more *American* could I possibly be ?

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

05:24 PM on 09/15/2011

Don't worry brave one, you are being protected here by HP.

I posted something for you to read that could not be posted further down where you were replying to DA5050 but they evidently felt it was OK for you to break the rules with distortions of facts and falsehoods, but not OK for me to call you on it. Go ahead, keep posting what you post, it is a bigger reflection of HP, because HP does not want both sides. Eventually that type of control will cause major problems in North America, but whatever.

[BillyRI]

03:32 PM on 09/15/2011

"With insufficient governmental protection for journalists, Mexican Attorney General Mora recommends that a good strategy for those working on stories about organized crime not to sign their names in order to protect themselves against possible retaliation." (Cencos 07-31-07)

[Dewts]

03:11 PM on 09/15/2011

mexico, you suck. i'm sorry, but there's really no other way to say it. you are a terrible country.

[paige mcghan]

01:04 PM on 09/25/2011

Thank you so much for you respectful, well informed, relevant comment.

[GandenT]

02:09 PM on 09/15/2011

One can only wonder when the selfish blood-lust of Social Conservatives will be sated so we can end their failed, bloody, and enormously expensive Drug War. How many more people and lives must be sacrificed on the altar of their hypocritical self-righteousness and revolting moral vanity?

[clearwaterclearmind]

03:43 PM on 09/15/2011

you, uh....

might want to check and see who is president and who that president appointed to attorney general, and what that attorney general is doing despite promises not to before you dole out ALL your frustration to the gop on this one.

[GandenT]

04:28 PM on 09/15/2011

I did not mention any specific political party since any one of them is perfectly capable of having so-called "social conservatives" obsessed with legislating morality with their church inspired "vice" laws antagonizing common human practices and behavior. It's confusing mainly because the Republicans have the bad habit and poor taste to run around proclaiming themselves to be paragons of moral virtue and wisdom when they're not also claiming to speak for God.

[IllTakeTheRedEye]

03:45 PM on 09/15/2011

So...are you advocating that all street drugs be legal? or just mary jane?

If you permit even one street drug to remain illegal, then the enforcement battle you have been witnessing will continue. However, legalization of every street drug, will likely mean even more people will lose their lives due to addiction, car collisions, suee  side, over dose, street drugs with actual poison cut in for lack of grams to sell, etc.

How do you intend to save everyone's life? You think the drug war has lost lives, how will you save lives if there was no drug war?

[mmsuki]

04:15 PM on 09/15/2011

I'll make a trade: legalize all street drugs and make alcohol illegal.

[GandenT]

04:34 PM on 09/15/2011

Yes I am advocating for the legalization of any and all recreational drugs along with regulation and taxation. I can appreciate that you imagine, as prohibition advocates do, that some sort of disaster will occur if this happens but the cases that are available for study clearly indicate the opposite of your speculation. Holland and Portugal being two prime examples illustrating the absolute lack of social chaos, addiction, and death following legalization and regulation. In our history Prohibition was an unqualified failure that simply added violence and crime to the supposed ills of drinking, and at great expense and loss of life. Our drug war, even if, for the sake of argument you grant that it is somehow necessary, has been a complete and total failure by any measure. I am not pro-failure but of course I understand that others disagree.

[DA5050]

12:07 PM on 09/15/2011

Offer Mexico statehood ,regulate and legalize the lower class drugs,make our new state a very large military training installation,give mexican nationals that are currently living in the US incentives to move back .Our new border would be seriously more narrow on the south,(easier to regulate traffic) tax dollars from "pot" alone would be an astronomical asset to debt problems, mexicans would be more likely to stay in their own areas with their families closer together and they would now be US taxpayers.! what else ya got I'm on fire..heheehheeh..

[looneydoone]

12:56 PM on 09/15/2011

You're "not on fire"....you're all wet

Here's something for you to ponder
*Mexicans* are First Nations (Native American) people. DNA proves it
http://mexidata.info/id1442,html

Illegal immigration from Mexico to the USA is at a record breaking 40 year low, and in fact is today net zero. More US born, naturalized, legal resident aliens and undocumented are leaving the USA
source; San Diego Union Tribune newspaper Fri 09 Sept 2011
www.signonsandiego.com

[DA5050]

01:38 PM on 09/15/2011

And they owned California the ares we call new Mexico,Arizona ,Texas, I beg your pardon,I was reading the article about the violence in Mexico now. Native American peoples are a valid point for some issues other than the violence issue I was responding to.So I guess statehood is out of the question ??!!?? And I meant no malice to the Mexican people. Am I gettin warmer ??? hahhehehaah

[looneydoone]

02:00 PM on 09/15/2011

* try this http://mexidata.info/id1442.html

[SpiralSD]

11:47 AM on 09/15/2011

Decriminalize drugs. I have a feeling that the resulting tragedies would be fewer than they are right now.

[capnamerca]

12:57 PM on 09/15/2011

You can't legalize Meth and Heroin for recreational use. The drug cartels will only change their focus more towards these drugs and the violence will continue. Do you expect they would just lay down their guns and go back to tending the goats? I think not.

[SpiralSD]

02:01 PM on 09/15/2011

Well, I don't pretend to know what would happen, it is a fact that those drugs are illegal, which lowers the supply and increases the price to people that want them. Their illegality itself provides a HUGE incentive for people to import them, and to compete over the same market. This is where the violence comes from; competition.

If these drugs were legal, the price would go down as the supply is no longer being choked, and there would be little reason for legitimate companies to kill each other over a market. Do we see this happening with Coke and Pepsi? Nike and Adidas? No, of course not, the legality of the business provides transparency and responsibility to an extent and makes those types of actions less effective.

With a lower price, it would not be worth the risk for illegal companies to try and smuggle this stuff. They will just go through legal channels. The cartels, would not go back to herding goats, they would become the first generation of legal drug companies.

[planetjeffy]

03:07 PM on 09/15/2011

"You can't legalize Meth and Heroin for recreation­al use..."

In 2001, Portugal became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Between 2001 and 2006, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half...

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html

[cornel]

11:39 AM on 09/15/2011

This is how a failed state looks like, complete anarchy and corruption at all level. That country should be renamed Exito !

[paige mcghan]

08:20 PM on 09/25/2011

FYI- the word ÉXITO means success in Spanish.

[cornel]

04:06 AM on 09/26/2011

Sure in mean success but also means a a false friend, tell me Paige what does gilipolla mean in your world : )