Diesel Civil Trust

In a new incident of grisly drug war violence, a man’s face was skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball as a threat to members of Mexico’s Juarez drug cartel.

Seriously, does depravity know no boundaries? I don’t consider myself a naive person, but even I am shocked by this level of violence. It makes me question humanity’s chances for basic survival. Emphasis mine.

A new regiment of soldiers arrives in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. Mexican President Felipe Calderon mobilized 45,000 soldiers in his efforts to quell the violence created by drug traffickers.

A new regiment of soldiers arrives in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. Mexican President Felipe Calderon mobilized 45,000 soldiers in his efforts to quell the violence created by drug traffickers.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s war on drugs took a grim twist this week, as a prominent mayor said he had created an undercover group of operatives to “clean up” criminal elements — even if it had to act outside the law. Underscoring why the mayor may have felt compelled to take such steps, the new police chief in a neighboring town, a retired brigadier general, was shot and killed Wednesday, four days after taking up his post.

9,903 deaths in Mexico since January 2007 can be directly tied to the drug war being fought on both sides of the border.

9,903 deaths in Mexico since January 2007 can be directly tied to the drug war being fought on both sides of the border.

abbyjean:

The wave of violence in Mexico is becoming even more gruesome. Twelve bodies of federal police officers were found on the side of a remote highway in Michoacan, Mexico, with signs of torture. The ambushed officers were apparently killed execution style, with single shots to the head. The killings are the latest in violence spurred by President Felipe Calderon declaration of war on the drug cartels in 2006, which has since led to the deaths of almost 10,000 people. In the past month, 13 other bodies have been found along the same stretch of highway, and 16 police officers were wounded over the weekend in Michoacan, with at least 32 people killed in the past few days.

azspot:

Over the past month, the United States Southern Command, in collaboration with the Salvadoran military and civil aviation officials, has been evaluating the suitability of using unmanned aircraft, or drones, for counternarcotics operations throughout Latin America. As drug traffickers increasingly use semi-submersible submarines to transport cocaine from ports like Colombia to the United States, it has become increasingly difficult for manned aircraft to remain in the air long enough (due to fuel and pilot safety issues) to confirm the identity and location of the semi-submersibles and other drug-running boats. The use of drones, such as the Heron, appears to be how SOUTHCOM proposes to respond to this problem.

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