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> It blow my mind that there are multiple organizations that are so large and well armed that even the Mexican government won't touch them. Keep in mind that th
by ardy42 6y ago
> It blow my mind that there are multiple organizations that are so large and well armed that even the Mexican government won't touch them. Keep in mind that the Mexican military has the 17th most active duty personnel in the world and spent $7 billion last year, and still isn't willing to take on drug cartels stomping on their own sovereign territory.
But if the real problem is your army is corrupt, no quantity of guns and personnel will fix that.
As far as I know, the cartels are closer to an asymmetric military adversary, and have subverted the Mexican state rather than defeating it directly.
- bob33212 6y agoWhen everyone knows that they can either get paid off or get killed most people choose to be paid off.
- nradov 6y ago"Plata o plomo" (silver or lead)
- posterboy 6y agoPlata o diploma
- dylan604 6y agoIt is an either/or situation. Neither is not an option. Not taking the money means you can't be trusted not to talk, you still get killed.
- dzamo_norton 6y agoAnd the final possibility, namely both, probably happens a fair bit.
- amelius 6y agoBut what if you took down their communications?
- mycall 6y agoPerhaps Mexico is in need of some good ole UN liberation forces.
- smsm42 6y agoJudging from the past examples, they'd be corrupted at lightning speed - who wants to risk their life in some foreign country by playing a saint when all local "government" officials around you are on the take? What would motivate one to resist? The locals have patriotism, caring for their community and making better country, but foreign forces are just paid to do a job - so somebody could pay them 10x to do a different job or just to look the other way. It happened to UN forces many times.