Borderland Beat, for perfectly understandable reasons, is being quite oblique these days, but I think the gist of this is that the Zetas wanted to get rid of a troublesome subordinate by hiring a contractor to murder and dump 49 people on his plaza on Mothers Day, thereby stimulating a fuss leading to his arrest. Obviously, content warning.
UPDATE: OK, here's an overview from the New York Times Magazine/Cartel leader level, where everything is kind of cool. The rise of Chapo Guzman:
But Chapo’s greatest contribution to the evolving tradecraft of drug trafficking was one of those innovations that seem so logical in hindsight it’s a wonder nobody thought of it before: a tunnel. In the late 1980s, Chapo hired an architect to design an underground passageway from Mexico to the United States. What appeared to be a water faucet outside the home of a cartel attorney in the border town of Agua Prieta was in fact a secret lever that, when twisted, activated a hydraulic system that opened a hidden trapdoor underneath a pool table inside the house. The passage ran more than 200 feet, directly beneath the fortifications along the border, and emerged inside a warehouse the cartel owned in Douglas, Ariz. Chapo pronounced it “cool.”
You can tell that an article is basically approving when itr uses the word 'innovation'.
Fat chance of the authorities getting more efficient. And I thought wildly exaggerated stories about used car dealers were the preserve of US law enforcement
Posted by: skidmarx | June 23, 2012 at 08:08 PM