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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMexico can't seem to catch a break. Now it will have to deal with another drug cartel collapse and
the violence that follows. Texas will also be affected.
One of the world's most wanted drug barons, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is arrested in a joint US-Mexican operation in Mexico's Sinaloa state.
Renew Deal
(81,881 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)insensitive, at best. But, we all know what it is, in reality.
mucifer
(23,574 posts)I believe the guards here would be less likely to help him escape the way the Mexican prison guards got him out 8 years ago.
Gman
(24,780 posts)and not any worse off than any other multi-billion dollar corporation would be if it lost it's CEO.
I doubt anything will spill over to Texas. While in Texas there have been random killings of punks and thugs associated with the cartels, the real bloodshed, IF ANY, will be in Mexico. But it's hard to say what's going on right now. I would have expected things happening by now.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)I would assume others have taken control of his org, but I don't know a whole lot about the cartels beyond their horrid history of violence toward citizens, not just their business competition.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Not like he was unique and the only one that could do the job.
tritsofme
(17,405 posts)Oops, just saw who the poster is, never mind.