Sunday, August 7, 2011

More village defense, this time in Mexico.

Of course the cops showed up to disarm the villagers.

2 comments:

Justthisguy said...

Reminds me of the Combined Action Platoons in Viet-Nam. A squad of US Marines re-inforcing the local militia. Worked great, until the Powers That Be shut it down.

WV: cutwom, which is so close to "cutworm" that I am feeling like looking over my shoulder, or something.

Anonymous said...

These villagers are lucky that the cops didn't make them disappear into one of Mexico's extensive "narcofosas" (narco-mass-graves).

Anyone who thinks that this is a war between the Mexican government and myriad cartels is definitely smoking something. This is a Mahdi militia free-for-all, and the government can't be trusted anymore than the cartels can. Hell, there have been cases of soldiers kidnapping, torturing, and killing police officers (municipal, state, ministerial, federal) and shoot-outs between groups of police officers allied to rival cartels. IT IS NUTS.

A great book on the topic is Murder City by Charles Bowden. If you're fluent in Spanish, a great place to get the real dope (no pun intended) on the Mexican collapse is youtube: just type "5antuario" (yes, with the number 5) and find his channel. In English, borderlandbeat.com also provides very good information.