The Guardian: Cowed and outgunned: why Mexico’s police 'don't stand a chance' against drug cartels
The 14 October massacre that left 13 state police dead was just one extreme episode of violence in a recent litany of horrors
At first glance, the human skull lying beside the road looked like a piece of rubbish. Once spotted, it was impossible to ignore: charred, broken and punched through with a bullet hole.
Around it, a carpet of bullet casings was scattered across the street which runs through the middle of the village of El Aguaje in Mexico’s western state of Michoacán.
Bones and bullets bore witness to the intensity of a ferocious cartel ambush which two days earlier had killed 13 state police officers and wounded nine.
“It was crazy to send them here like that,” said a young mother who lives a block away from the ambush and asked not to be named. “They were sent to the slaughter.”
And the fact that – more than 48 hours after the attack – human remains and ballistic evidence still lay in the open suggested that any investigation of the crime scene had been cursory and carried out in a state of panic.
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WNU Editor: The police are outgunned, and their families are exposed to cartel revenge attacks. In such an environment how can they enforce the law.
4 comments:
Sounds like it's time to bring in Jack Ryan.
Raise the Black Flag!
I'll make a prediction - the USAF and SOCOM will be involved in Mexico within a year. Just from friends, family and acquaintances in SoCal, the more they're learning of the November massacre the more furious they become. The anger is only going to increase among Americans - especially those residing near the border.
President Trump needs to declare these cartels to be terrorist orgs. Then he'll have much more latitude to deal with them the way that they've needed to be desalt with for years.
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