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2010-05-20 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican Cartel Bad Guys Getting into the Pirate Business

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Posted by badanov 2010-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Falcon Lake is considered one of the best bass fishing lakes in the nation, the sheriff said. Its a shame this is happening. The sheriff is a master of understatement, to say the least. Any fisherman on that lake is tempting death to take him.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-20 00:20|| 2010-05-20 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The linked article's web page is infected with a virus. I hope nobody gets exploited.

Posted by gromky 2010-05-20 03:13|| 2010-05-20 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Texas? My first thought was interception of banned chemicals:
Wednesday, authorities said about 88 tons (80 metric tons) of a precursor chemical used to make methamphetamines had been seized at the Pacific Coast seaport of Manzanillo.

The chemical ethyl phenyl acetate, also known as phenylacetic acid, can also be used in cocaine processing.The navy said the chemical was found in five shipping containers sent from China to Manzanillo.Drug traffickers have turned to phenylacetic acid since Mexico effectively banned imports of another precursor, pseudoephedrine. A similar confiscation, reported at the time as the largest single seizure of its type, was reported by authorities at the same port earlier this month.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-20 10:17|| 2010-05-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't suppression of piracy one of the primary purposes of the US Navy? And isn't prevention of smuggling one of the missions of the Coast Guard?

So why are we tolerating this?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-05-20 10:23|| 2010-05-20 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Putting a bounty on any smuggler shot by a fisherman at Falcon lake would stop this.

My fellow Texicans like to fish and they like firearms and they like a good fight...me thinks there is some synergy between these...I hope the endgame is a bunch of smugglers getting ventilated from 300 to 500 yards by fishermen with their .243 Winchesters and 4 x 20 variable scopes...more fun than antelope hunting.

Posted by James Carville 2010-05-20 11:51|| 2010-05-20 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Uh, uh, CAPITANE JOSE SPARROW???

Gut nuthin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-20 23:55|| 2010-05-20 23:55|| Front Page Top

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