Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
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Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
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Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#2Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#3Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
>> This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country.
Just FYI, not everyone on HN is from US.
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#4Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
so....a wall then
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#5Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
>> This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. Just FYI, not everyone on HN is from US.
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Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#7Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
so....a wall then
You made two spelling errors in "war".
Do you think that mafia will sit and watch?
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#8Recommended movie: Elite Squad and especially the sequel Elite Squad: Enemy Within.
It's about BOPE, the special operations unit of Rio de Janeiro police. The first is about the military anti-gang exploits, the second is a good hard look at what corruption looks like. The drugs aren't going away if you break up a cartel, neither is the money.
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#9Mexico, along with Russia, are the two most notorious mafia states. And notice the problems have been getting worse as the amount of oil diminishes, which was predicted. This, on our own doorstep, cannot be contained and will affect our own country. There will be even more refugees, too, because of this.
I don't understand why they don't upgrade their methods for the 21st century and get into legality. I'm sure they would be quite successful in pharma/opioids/tabacco/gambling businesses. There would be no need to use axes on average people.
Re: Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
so....a wall then
You made two spelling errors in "war". Do you think that mafia will sit and watch?
The US military or national guard would be deployed as necessary if the cartels began firing on the contractors and government workers building a theoretical wall. Cartels are certainly threatening in their environment, they're entirely worthless in actual military style engagements. In terms of gear, logistics, training and soldiers, they're less capable than the most mediocre of nation armies. It's not what they're good at. They fare extremely poorly against the Mexican military.
It'd be just about the dumbest thing a cartel ever did, to engage the US Government in such a moronic 'war.' They'd quickly abandon that idea. It's the reason they don't target prominent people in the US Government as it is now: the US can kill their leadership top to bottom, with just a bit of effort and resources pointed that direction. They know that, so they stay within certain bounds of behavior accordingly.