Refugees cowering in fear of Zetas

[harvey007]

Source: San Antonio News/Houston Chronicle

The Zetas began attacking Mier just hours after the killing by Mexican marines last week of Gulf Cartel boss Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, better known as Tony Tormenta, or Tony Storm.

Officials on both sides of the border have warned that Tony Tormenta's demise is all but certain to unleash havoc as rivals fight to replace him.

Events in Ciudad Mier suggest the vicious conflict of the past nine months between the Zetas and Gulf Cartel, who were allies for more than a dozen years, seems ready to tip into scorched-earth war.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/refugees_cowering_in_fear_of_zetas_107614343.html

[somone]

1. "Half the town's residents had fled to the United States"

[jonthebru]

2. Americans should be paying more attention to this.

But we should absolutely not send in troops.
How about taking the vice out of vice.

[duhneece]

3. Ya mean like ending the War on Drugs?

The US policy of a War on Drugs has contributed hugely, imho, to the violence we're seeing in Mexico, and especially Juarez, 100 miles south of where I live. You'd think we would have learned something from Prohibition of alcohol...

[Posteritatis]

8. I'm curious as to how much the cartels are contributing to that at this point

If I were one of their leaders I certainly wouldn't want my good legalized, after all.

[24601]

4. Fearing the Zetas is smart. They are Mexico's baddest bad-

asses and nobody in Mexico is prepared to take them on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Actually spec ops, which both the marines and army have

As well as the AF...trained by our spec ops, the IDF and others...

These guys are spec ops gone rogue.

You want to worry?

Iirc last week a seal was arrested for selling c-4 to the cartels.

[24601]

7. Agree - shack! (you hit the bullseye) n/t

[bemildred]

5. This makes Chicago in the 30s look tame. nt