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philip964 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:21 pm
No measly semi automatic rifles for the cartels.

Video on TV showed dump trucks with mounted 50 cal machine guns being used in the cartel counter offensive.

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:13 am If it wasn't already clear that Mexico is a failed state and that its government is not in control, this incident is the last proof anyone should need.

On Mexican State Collapse: a Guest Post by El Anti-Pozolero

Then the coup de grace: as the Chapo sons’ forces engaged in direct combat with their own national military, kill squads went into action across Culiacán, slaughtering the families of soldiers engaged in the streets.

Cowed and overmatched—most crucially in the moral arena—the hapless band of soldiers still holding the second son finally received word from Mexico City, direct from President AMLO himself: surrender. Surrender and release the prisoner.

It’s an absolutely extraordinary episode even by the grim and bizarre annals of what we mistakenly call the post-2006 Mexican Drug War. The Battle of Culiacán stands on a level above, say, the Ayotzinapa massacre, or the Zetas’ expulsion of the entire population of Ciudad Mier. Killing scores of innocents and brutalizing small towns is one thing: seizing regional capital cities and crushing the national armed forces in open fighting in broad daylight is something else.

From Culiacán, Sinaloa, to Nogales, Arizona, is one day’s drive.