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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Great video and greater news. Good riddance to that lowlife. Also shot dead is putting it mildly. From the photos of his corpse he was shot to pieces. Also you don't think the term "jefe de sicarios" applies to Jorge? Is it because it's already an outdated term? Obviously these cartels don't resemble the ones from the 1980s. But he more or less was a security chief and commands and army of hitman much like a jefe of sicarios. Obviously it's not just an army of kids with guns on motorcycles anymore. I honestly get a kick out of watching the chapitos crumble. Seeing the once mighty sinoala cartel disintegrate warms my heart. But also you wonder who will replace them? Obviously no one wants to see CJNG take over sinoala. The mayo people definitely wouldn't want that. I hope we go after CJNG after the chapitos are done. Also why is ovidio's family members getting asylum in our country? We giving asylum to terrorist relatives now? The FTO list?

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Yeah, I think jefe de sicarios works as well but they are more than that - so I was using "paramilitary forces." We are not sure Ovidios family is getting asylum but I agreed, it's scandalous if they do

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Have you seen....... MUNICH YET!!!!!!! 😂

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Also did ever go see that new warfare movie by Alex garland? I really want to see it. I don't know how well received it is in Mexico. Given that the iraq war was looked down upon by Mexicans in the 2000s. President fox was good friends with Bush though. They were both cowboys 🤠

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

But warfare is based on the 2006 battle of ramadi in Iraq by American and Iraqi forces against al qaeda backed militias led by Abdul al zarqawi. He was a Jordanian jihadist that went to iraq and waged war on American and coalition troops and was connected with Osama bin laden. It's also a pretty cool depiction of contemporary urban combat. Bloody too. Chris kyle the American sniper took part in that battle

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Yeah I want to see it. Fox was friends with Bush but he didn’t vote for the Iraq War when Mexico was on the U.S. Security Council…

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

I kind of miss the 00s actually. Yeah I know we had 9/11, anthrax scare, GWOT, Katrina, recession, but pop culture media was still great the lord of the rings trilogy!!!

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Sweet was it good? How was the combat scenes? Does it remind you of the combat you see in Mexico? 😂

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Jerry Kelly's avatar

Headed to Puerto Lobos via Sasabe for first time in years... something has changed...the 2011 battle there was epic ! https://insightcrime.org/investigations/outlaws-roost-the-story-of-sarics-battle-against-el-chapo/

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Sweet you lucky I haven't been in Mexico for years now. Guadalajara was such a fun city.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Good luck and stay well. Let us know how it goes there friend.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

Let's see. Family members of Ovidio are allowed to enter the United States, new narco terrorism indictments of the Sinaloa cartel in Southern California and now the execution of El Perris. There is definitely an information leak in the Sinaloa Cartel and the Chapitos in custody in the US certainly have the most to gain from leaking information. This leaking of information I think lead to this-

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/twenty-two-charged-imperial-valley-takedown-violent-drug-trafficking-organization

All of a sudden after years even decades of this corruption existing in Imperial Valley, indictments suddenly appear detailing their so called lengthy investigation in busting this ring. What is really interesting, previous arrests in California always mentioned cartel involvement. Now the indictments clearly specified the Beltran Leyva connection with El Chapo Isidro. Is this revenge?

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Bruh my home state cali has so much cartel relatives. It's wild that alot of them have family here. And have American born kids

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Yep, Cali the cartel land…

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Great documentary! Lol

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Hmm. Some very interesting connections there and you are right, this is a possibility and will certainly be raising suspicions among them.

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Brendan's avatar

If you look at the way the guns positioned on the bed in the photo, the "shoot to kill" theory makes sense

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Jonathan Ramos's avatar

Yeah it seems the Mexican army had no intention of "arresting " him they aren't policeman after all they shoot first

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Absolutely. Best there Brendan.

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