Bye-Bye Chapo Guzman

[bagochina]

lol oh god. Wonder if they were paid to be there?

Guzman's safe house
http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.h...qGVUIuNcr9dzehL052AoeItcR4gsDT3ZKtI4Vt3VQ&s=1

 

['medicine cabinet']

That secret bathtub is awesome.

 

[TheRapperGoneBad]

Heard about this threw local news during my hiatus, crazy stuff but like many have said before I some one will surely take his spot.

End the drug war and there's no need for ruthless cartel leaders..

 

[somnilicious]

As a foreigner its really impossible to make heads or tails of whats going down in mexico.. many tens of thousands of people are dead, the cartels, police, army seem to all kinda be fighting each other. Some people are fed up with the cartels while others are staging protests for the leader of one to be released..

I guess I will just have to chalk all this up to just one more thing that makes absolutely no sense in the utterly failed, life taking, country destroying, life ruining madness, greed fueled mayhem for both cops and criminals, that is the "War on Drugs"

Yeah, it is extremely complicated. There are the victims of cartel violence and then there are the destitute and poor who have benefited from cartel money. Guzman brought electricity to many villages and drug money is pouring into locations that would otherwise have no economy to speak of. I went to Germany and Hitler came up in conversation. His atrocities were noted but he was also quickly defended for the good things he did for the German people such as construction projects e.g. (Autobahn) and getting Germany out of skyrocketing inflation and the depression that left many Germans without food.

 

[Jabberwocky]

holy shit!! So much for the "sinaloa's totally gov-sponsored/approved" line, I guess?

 

[Jabberwocky]

^exactly. There may be a great rearrangement, and therefore a disruption in supply. Same thing happened to Colombia's cartels after Escobar. Today, they are a shadow of their older selves. The upside is, Colombia is much more peaceful now. Same thing will happen in Mexico, especially with the vigilante squads regulating shit in the smaller cities.

I'm no WoD historian, but I understood it as the opposite, that after smashing escobar's group, the resultant competition / groups were more vicious fighting over the pieces. Maybe it was just more efficient, not more efficient+more violent? The efficiency *surely* increases when the big groups get broken down.