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Caribbean-Latin America
How the coronavirus lockdown is hitting Mexico's drug cartels
2020-04-06
[DW] The global coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 lockdown is making it hard for Mexican narco mobs to operate. With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other.

There's nothing you can't find on Mexico City's Tepito Market, locals say. In this maze of alleyways and stalls, you can buy anything from brand-name clothing, to flat-screen televisions, toys, glasses, drones, mobiles and much more. Wares produced in informal workshops are on offer, as are counterfeit consumer goods from China and even illegal drugs and weapons.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” ― Carl Sagan
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-04-06 19:09  

#10  #8 IMO, the most important outcome of Covid-19, is that a lot of (otherwise good people) learned that the Universe doesn't give a damn that they think.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-06 18:39  

#9  #8 Hear, hear.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-06 18:30  

#8  I know it's surely cost that bastard Soros everything he's spent for decades on trying to destroy borders and sovereignty. And possibly, the incorrigibly careless muslims in every nation, their lives. The chinese it will hurt for years to come, you shall see. And the champions of mob virtue and collective pressure shall probably never do business like they used to again.

Life, in the political world is altered forever now. Without a shot fired, without a legislation, fast-tracked by that oldest, most primal motivator of men. Fear.

This blasted thing, whether escaped from a lab or evolved from demonic strain, is a force of nature that has lain waste to all our diverse enemy and their wiles. It has given our Governments a much needed chance to re-evaluate our imperatives and projected possibilities for other future things like it, that shall have to be now strategized for. This means a lot, both from the public administrative and mass psychological perspectives. And the results can be a more secure social environment for our citizens, more discipline and less buggery by public nuisances like liberals.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-04-06 17:51  

#7  Country linen Lysol scented blow !
Posted by: Thor Lumplump9167   2020-04-06 15:23  

#6  I recall the outrage over the Walmart model. Coming into a small community, extinguishing the local hardware and clothing stores....then closing down if the expected margins were not met. Walmart closures led to people having to drive 15-25 miles to the next town and a Super Walmart, the old hardware and clothing stores were gone.

The Walmart business model appears to mirror that of the Chinese business model, or vice versa. Shocking, no ?


Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-06 12:51  

#5  The tunnel runs more than 1.3 kilometers under the border wall between the US and Mexico and is equipped with an elevator. "We never really thought they had the moxie to go that far," one US official said.

o.O !
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-06 12:48  

#4  ^Produced deliberately, escaped accidentally.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-06 12:46  

#3  This would tend to support the argument that covid-19 is an accident. I mean, Chicoms would never jeopardize their narcotics business.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-06 12:35  

#2  Start rumors that the different drugs are tainted by the virus to kill the demand side.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-04-06 12:12  

#1  With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other.

Gotta be a way to turn this up to 11.
Posted by: gorb   2020-04-06 07:01  

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