Mexico pwned by narcoterrorists: Anti-kidnap chief kidnapped

[korn469]

HERMOSILLO, Mexico - The bullet-riddled bodies of four Mexican policemen were found Wednesday about 20 miles south of the Arizona border, and the anti-kidnapping chief in another northern Mexico state was reported to have been kidnapped.

Sonora state Gov. Eduardo Bours said a group of armed men had seized the Cananea city police officers hours before they were found dead. He did not give a possible motive for the killings.

Mexico has seen a wave of attacks on police, military and intelligence officials as the government battles drug gangs.

State police were sent to reinforce security in the town.

Meanwhile, authorities in the northern state of Coahuila reported that men disguised as Mexican federal agents had kidnapped the state’s chief anti-kidnapping investigator.

Lucio Tello, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, said that Enrique Ruiz Arevalo, director-general for investigations of kidnapping and organized crime for the agency, has been missing since Monday, when he was seized as he ate breakfast in a restaurant.

The four kidnappers carried rifles and wore black uniforms with the insignia of the Federal Agency of Investigation, Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI, when they grabbed Ruiz Arevalo and another agent in Torreon, 310 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas.

They released the other agent hours later. He said he had been blindfolded, roughed up and insulted.

Tello said the attorney general’s office knew of no motive for the abduction.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18706076/

Ok actually we don't know who kidnapped Senior Arevalo, but hey it's Mexico during the middle of a drug war. I'm going with the obvious here.

Pretty ironic though.

[Dinner]

The drug cartels love this sort of symbolism. They like to prove they can get anyone at any time. Much like they shot the lead Presidential candidate in Tijuana in 2000. They literally can kill or capture anyone.

[Barnabas]

The problem is the corruption, the narcos have lots of cash,
One could say, use the army to fight the drug dealers, but then, the army is probably infiltrated and the drug dealers can bribe many people of the army.

[Dinner]

In the US the cops and the army get paid enough where they don't have to beg. Plus the law is almost assured of catching up with criminals (unless the criminal's name in GWB) so there is a near certainty that you will have to pay at some time. In Mexico that isn't the case. In fact cops are paid just a few hundred dollars a month and they are forced to buy their own bullets and uniforms. Offer them just $1000 and most will jump.

[Dinner]

Mexico needs a paramilitary organization like the Italian Carabinari. A well paid government controlled group which can act as the "Untouchables" did during the American prohibition. People who are well paid and honest which the state keeps close tabs on so that they cannot be corrupted. People who are protected enough to not be tempted by the drug cartels.

[Berzerker]

The four kidnappers carried rifles and wore black uniforms with the insignia of the Federal Agency of Investigation, Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI, when they grabbed Ruiz Arevalo and another agent in Torreon, 310 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas.

Texas is 310 miles southwest of the border?

Mexico needs a paramilitary organization like the Italian Carabinari. A well paid government controlled group which can act as the "Untouchables" did during the American prohibition. People who are well paid and honest which the state keeps close tabs on so that they cannot be corrupted. People who are protected enough to not be tempted by the drug cartels.

Hoover refused repeated attempts to draw the FBI into drug enforcement, he said it was too corrupting. And Mexico dont need paramilitary stuff, they need to legalize drugs and reduce the black market. Alot of people are being killed in northern Mexico and its because of the illegality of drugs.

[Patroklos]

We should have invaded Mexico instead.

[Admiral]

Originally posted by Patroklos
We should have invaded Mexico instead.

Invading Mexico is so 19th century.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Berzerker


Texas is 310 miles southwest of the border?

You can't see the other possible parsing of that sentence?

[Dinner]

Most of Mexico's drug trafficking isn't for consumption in Mexico. It's destined for the US and the drug cartels are fighting over who gets to control the flow of drugs into the US.

[Patroklos]

Honestly, I don't see why we don't pull most of our foriegn aid form everywhere else and try our best to reform/help that festering **** hole that is Mexico. You would think with it being right there we would care more about it.

[Dinner]

We give hardly any aid at all these days. Certainly not enough to help Mexico in a meaningful way.

BTW Mexico is the richest country in Latin America but it's government is screwed up.

[C0ckney]

...and the anti-kidnapping chief in another northern Mexico state was reported to have been kidnapped.

this made me smile.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Oerdin
We give hardly any aid at all these days. Certainly not enough to help Mexico in a meaningful way.

BTW Mexico is the richest country in Latin America but it's government is screwed up.

It's not even close to the richest latin american country by any measure if you mean per capita income. Do you mean that it has the largest gdp of any latin american country and are you for some reason excluding Brazil from latin america if that is the case?

[Barnabas]

Mexico has the highest nominal per capita income, but in ppp it is well behind Chile and Argentina.
The souther cone countries Chile Argentina (and Uruguay) are still the ones with the highest standard of life by far.

Mexico also has the benefit of sending the poorest members of its society to the USA.