monkeyswrench
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I know, the weather's great, beaches are nice and "they never mess with the tourist areas"....
Borderland Beat is a site reporting news on cartels, drugs and human trafficking. A lot of it is written under alias, or anonymously...pretty understandable considering what happens to reporters there.
Since the start of the last border crisis/not crisis, (depending on who you vote for) I've been looking around for "gossip". Standard stuff, drug runners, coyotes and the like. It seems as though we don't hear as much info north of the border. Bodies found, pieces of bodies found, notes and videos explaining why, and threatening others...but now it's happening in TJ and Ensenada. This is pretty damn close. Now, I'm sure some of ya'll here are Billy Badass, and have no fear of anything...Well, I'm not that guy. My ass isn't headed over the border for a long time. Really kind of sad, as I went quite a bit as a kid.
In seeing the cartel videos, these guys are no longer playing with Chinese AK's. These guys are running some nice gear, and pretty decent weapons. Hell, some of the "soldiers" now wear body armor with cartel identification across the chest... They have moved forward as less "gang", and more militaristic. It's almost like Narcojihad. These guys are pretty close to hodji in Iraq, but better armed, and better trained it seems. The head of one of the cartels, CJNG, was a federali I think. Well, his daughter got locked up last week on federal charges, in LA. Some of the other cartels were founded by ex-soldiers, some even trained by us! This open border crap could get interesting.
Borderland Beat is a site reporting news on cartels, drugs and human trafficking. A lot of it is written under alias, or anonymously...pretty understandable considering what happens to reporters there.
Since the start of the last border crisis/not crisis, (depending on who you vote for) I've been looking around for "gossip". Standard stuff, drug runners, coyotes and the like. It seems as though we don't hear as much info north of the border. Bodies found, pieces of bodies found, notes and videos explaining why, and threatening others...but now it's happening in TJ and Ensenada. This is pretty damn close. Now, I'm sure some of ya'll here are Billy Badass, and have no fear of anything...Well, I'm not that guy. My ass isn't headed over the border for a long time. Really kind of sad, as I went quite a bit as a kid.
In seeing the cartel videos, these guys are no longer playing with Chinese AK's. These guys are running some nice gear, and pretty decent weapons. Hell, some of the "soldiers" now wear body armor with cartel identification across the chest... They have moved forward as less "gang", and more militaristic. It's almost like Narcojihad. These guys are pretty close to hodji in Iraq, but better armed, and better trained it seems. The head of one of the cartels, CJNG, was a federali I think. Well, his daughter got locked up last week on federal charges, in LA. Some of the other cartels were founded by ex-soldiers, some even trained by us! This open border crap could get interesting.