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Joanne98  (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-31-09 02:42 PM
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Mexican farm leader killed with 14 others on ranch
 Source: Reuters


MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug gangs, local police said on Friday.

Margarito Montes, a well-known organizer of agricultural laborers, was among the bodies found riddled with bullets in trucks in the town of Hornos in southern Sonora, a state bordering the United States, a police spokesman said.

The cause of the crime was unknown but the killings had many of the hallmarks of hits by drug cartels, who often use automatic weapons to murder people in groups to send a message to rivals.

More than 15,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an army-led assault on cartels soon after taking office in 2006.

Local farmers are often caught up in drug violence, paid or coerced to grow marijuana and opium poppies for powerful traffickers, often in northern states were cartels control large swaths of territory.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59U0C6200...


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This should have been titled "Mexico's selfish, greedy, mass murdering, right-wing elite assassinates union organizer and tries to make it look like the drug cartels did it."

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subsuelo (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-31-09 03:44 PM
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2. I would also include "with U.S. support" in your title

AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-31-09 04:35 PM
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5. Drug cartels are members of the right win
 It would be imposible to find a real leftist managing a drug cartel
 

[Odin's Hand]

AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-31-09 04:35 PM
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5. Drug cartels are members of the right win
It would be imposible to find a real leftist managing a drug cartel

More "pious" liberal/communist garbage from the inhabitants of DU.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/2205687/Hugo-Chavezs-Venezuela-supplies-half-of-Britains-cocaine.html

Hugo Chavez's Venezuela 'supplies half of Britain's cocaine'
President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela has become the key trafficking route for most of the cocaine sold on Britain's streets, anti-drugs officials believe.

I am sure Hugo wasn't aware of those state-run facilities and airbases manufacturing and transporting the drugs.  

[The Village Idiot]

Say what??

Lets go downtown and ask all the drug dealers how they feel about Obama.

[docstew]

AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-31-09 04:35 PM
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5. Drug cartels are members of the right win
 It would be imposible to find a real leftist managing a drug cartel

Now hang on, there's some truth to this statement.  No real leftist would have the business acumen to sell water in the desert, much less run a drug cartel.

Being customers, OTOH,...