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In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
By MARK STEVENSON
FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020 file photo, a policeman drives past town hall in Apaseo El Alto, Guanajuato state, Mexico. The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of their own: the cartel kidnapped in mid-May 2021, several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers, and are now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued nations of Central America and poses the most direct challenge yet to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of avoiding violence and rejecting any war on the cartels.
But the cartel has already declared war on the government, aiming to eradicate an elite state force known as the Tactical Group which the gang accuses of treating its members unfairly.
“If you want war, you’ll get a war. We have already shown that we know where you are. We are coming for all of you,” reads a professionally printed banner signed by the cartel and hung on a building in Guanajuato in May.
HeadSet saysassassins aimed at judges and police chiefs
Plata o plomo ?
Your 2021 Toyota pick up was made in Guanajuato.
the majority of the people have distrust of the government and so the country is mostly lawless.
1. Legalize drugs - Mexican cartels no longer ship marijuana as the US has completely wiped out their profit margin on cannabis.
MJ is legalized in CA yet there are plenty of illegal growing spots popping up all over the desert. One was even found in Death Valley. How come legalization didn't wipe these out?
The legal prices are too high. (So to speak.)
MJ is legalized in CA yet there are plenty of illegal growing spots popping up all over the desert. One was even found in Death Valley. How come legalization didn't wipe these out?
Mexico voted in their midterms yesterday. Insane fact: 97 politicians were assassinated just during this election cycle!
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