My first thought was were they tortured.
Drug gang killed 43 students, Mexican law official says" by Randal C. Archibold | New York Times November 08, 2014
That's so very interesting since my printed Mexican article is missing, as was this.
I guess the Globe didn't want you to know "Authorities say it said started when police, under orders of the former Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and working with a drug gang, opened fire on students," or that "the parents, human rights groups and Mexicans in general have been appalled by the government's slow response to a case that has exposed in the worst way decades of collusion between officials and organized crime along with government inaction. There had been accusations for more than a year that Abarca was involved in killing and disappearing rivals but no investigation. When students who survived the Iguala confrontation sought help from the military the night of the attack, they said they were turned away. Parents reacting to Murillo Karam's report Friday said they have lost trust in anything the government says," or that a "Marine who fought in Afghanistan returned home to Florida on Saturday after spending eight months in a Mexican jail for crossing the border with loaded guns," although you might have found out "in a country with a history of coerced confessions and staged arrests, the relatives reacted with disbelief and anger, some accusing President Enrique Peña Nieto of trying to conclude the case before his planned trip to Asia this weekend. The case has riveted Mexico for weeks, provoking large demonstrations, unmasking the depth of local corruption, and threatening to overwhelm the agenda of Peña Nieto, who has made economic advancement his administration’s centerpiece."
For show:
"Sinaloa Cartel member sentenced to 5 years in N.H.
A federal judge in New Hampshire has sentenced a man prosecutors said was member of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to plotting a major cocaine distribution network. New Hampshire prosecutors said Alvaro Rivera-Pedrego — who lived in Arizona and Mexico — helped set up meetings between undercover FBI agents posing as drug lords and cartel members working to set up a cocaine distribution network in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Two of those meetings took place in New Hampshire. The conspirators ultimately delivered a cargo container laden with 346 kilograms of cocaine to the FBI agents at a port in Algeciras, Spain, on July 27, 2012 (AP)."
How do you know they were undercover?
Related: U.S. Government Helped Rise of Mexican Drug Cartel
So what did Mr. Rivera-Pedrego do wrong, and HOW LONG WAS THAT HAPPENING?
Kinda puts the fraud to the drug war, huh?
At least I was able to find this one: Fugitive Mexican mayor, wife caught
I have a confession to make, readers. I no longer want to blog about the Bo$ton Globe and it shell game censorship.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Just keep in mind that it is several government agencies helping run the drugs when you read this load, 'kay?
"Mexican meth increasingly supplanting at-home labs" by Jim Salter | Associated Press November 09, 2014
ST. LOUIS — The nation’s Heartland is ridding itself of the scourge of homemade methamphetamine, with lab seizures down by nearly half in many high-meth states.
Actually, I was told the stuff was being brewed out in California and it now comes in liquid form, but....
But any celebration is muted: Meth use remains high, but people are increasingly turning to cheaper, imported Mexican meth rather than making their own.
Meth lab busts and seizures are down 40 percent or more in states that traditionally lead the country in the undesirable category, narcotics specialists said.
Enforcement actions and stricter laws are partly responsible, but the meth now coming through Mexican cartel pipelines is so cheap and pure that it is supplanting meth made in homes or soda bottles inside cars. The cartels have even expanded their meth reach to rural areas and small towns.
No wonder the country is falling apart -- all so government agencies can have black budgets for black ops and money-laundering banks bolster their bottom lines while hollowing out all sense of community in America by importing that evil poison. Seen it all before, and a courageous reporter named Webb was killed because he outed it.
‘‘The great news is that meth from Mexico doesn’t explode, doesn’t burn down your house and your neighbor’s home, doesn’t contaminate your property, doesn’t kill children the way meth labs have done here in the US for decades,’’ said Jason Grellner, the chief narcotics officer in Franklin County, Mo.
I guess that is looking on the "great(?)" side of it?????
Meth lab seizures peaked nationally in 2004, when nearly 24,000 labs were seized. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported 11,573 seizures last year (the most recent available), up 363 from 2012.
Wheel keeps on turning....
Grellner’s county has often topped 100 meth lab seizures in a year, but have only had about a dozen this year. Statistics provided by the Missouri State Highway Patrol show 558 meth lab seizures occurred statewide for the first six months of 2014, putting Missouri on pace for 1,116. That would be a 34 percent drop from the 1,496 meth lab seizures in 2013, and only a little over half in 2012.
The decline is more pronounced in other high-meth states.
In Tennessee, lab seizures are down 40 percent this year, said Tommy Farmer, director of the Tennessee Meth and Pharmaceutical Task Force. Oklahoma had 160 meth lab seizures through September and is on pace for 213 — about half last year’s seizure total, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward said.
One only needs to go to the morgue to know that, despite fewer lab busts, the meth problem isn’t going away.
In Oklahoma, which tracks meth-related deaths, 167 died of meth overdoses last year — up from 140 in 2012 and 108 in 2011, Woodward said. Figures for 2014 weren’t available. ‘‘I don’t think meth use has ever been higher in the state of Oklahoma,’’ he said.
Kind of an ancillary benefit in the population control and reduction department, 'eh?
The Mexican cartels have long controlled the market for illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
Yuh-huh (with help from governments).
Meth was trickier. For years, many US users have chosen to make their own, first in homemade labs that often caught fire or ruined houses. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s website lists thousands of homes contaminated by meth.
When federal and state lawmakers began implementing laws limiting the sale of key meth ingredient pseudoephedrine in the mid-2000s, it became difficult to obtain enough for large batches. Users turned to ‘‘one-pot’’ or ‘‘shake-and-bake’’ methods — mixing a couple of cold pills with household chemicals such as lighter fluid or drain cleaner in a 2-liter soda bottle.
WTF?????
I must confess, I don't even know what meth was and now I don't want to be anywhere near it. No wonder they are ending up dead.
Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have upped their meth-making, turning to an old recipe known as P2P that first appeared in the 1960s and 1970s.
Yeah, cook it up!
It uses the organic compound phenylacetone — banned in the United States but obtainable in Mexico, according to the DEA — rather than pseudo ephedrine.
That's gotta be good, right?
Chemists in Mexico have refined the process to the point where the meth is both potent and cheap.
The purity of Mexican meth increased from 39 percent in 2007 to essentially 100 percent today, said Jim Shroba, special agent in charge for the DEA’s St. Louis office. The price over that same period has fallen by more than 60 percent.
And check this out:
Marijuana is by far the most seized drug in the United States, with DEA statistics showing nearly 600,000 pounds seized in 2013. That compares with about 50,000 pounds of cocaine, 9,000 pounds of meth and 2,100 pounds of heroin.
I rest my case.
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Also see: Meth House Cleanup Makes Me Mad
Cui bono on all levels?
