Thursday, September 10, 2015

Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Now Waging An 'Instagram War'

Ivan Guzman’s Culiacan mansion in the heart of Sinaloa state has been paid for by his father’s cartel, which makes more than $3 billion annually from the narcotics trade in the United States alone

Daily Mail: Narcos at (Instagram) war! From guns and girls to big cats and big piles of cash, El Chapo's sons spark social media battles between Mexican cartel members showing off their sickening wealth

* Mexico's top cartel members are showing off their lavish lifestyles on social media in a bid to outdo each other
* Pictures of gold-plated guns, bikini-clad women, fast cars and big cats are being posted on Instagram and Twitter
* Trend believed to have been set by the children of El Chapo, a cartel boss who escaped from prison two months ago

Gold-plated guns, voluptuous bikini-clad women and big cats are appearing on the social media accounts of Mexican cartel members in a trend thought to be set by the children of fugitive El Chapo.

In an effort to compete for the title of Narco King of Instagram, Mexico’s most powerful narcos have taken to social media to show off their lavish tastes.

Posting under the hashtags #narcos and #narcostyle, top cartel members flash their enormous wealth over Instagram and Twitter, uploading outrageous pictures which attract hundreds of both adoring and hate-filled comments.

WNU Editor: Here is a perfect opportunity for the Mexican government to catalogue all of this wealth .... and to then seize it for money laundering, tax evasion, etc.. Unfortunately .... my gut is telling me that they are going to do nothing.

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