Filed Under:  Cartels, Mexico, Sinaloa, Washington

Mexico’s two major crime cartels now at war

May 25th 2012   ·   5 Comments

The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — the victims most likely innocents.

No longer limiting themselves to regional skirmishes, the older, established drug-smuggling Sinaloa cartel is now fighting the brash, young paramilitary Zetas crime organization across multiple front lines in Mexico in a desperate fight, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and security analysts on both sides of the border.

The two gangs and their surrogates continue to quietly kill each other, but they are also staging public massacres in order to terrify civilians, cow authorities and taunt outgoing President Felipe Calderon, who has made his U.S.-backed confrontation against the cartels a centerpiece of his administration.

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A version of this column originally appeared in mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com.

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Readers Comments (5)

  1. Al Jones says:
    May 25, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    GOOD!!!!

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  2. Randall Mckinney says:
    May 25, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    wipe each other out

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  3. Dennis Neil says:
    May 25, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    Yeah, if we can just get them to “mutually annililate each other, we will have it made…!!! ———get out the vote!!!

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  4. Helen Bennett Taylor says:
    May 25, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    May they kill each other off the planet!

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  5. Wayne Burkes says:
    May 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Last Man Standing gets a Prize!

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