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One need look no further than our Mexican friends to the south to find a nation embroiled in war. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

People are bad. Anyone who believes otherwise has clearly never met one. To find evidence supporting this assertion one needs to go no further than our neighbors to the South. For a bit more than a decade, much of Mexico has been quietly devolving into a genuine shooting war. In the past dozen years, this war has claimed more than 126,000 lives. This is roughly twice as many deaths as we incurred during the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The toxic combination of poverty, corruption, and gobs of illicit money seems to bring out the worst in people.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The recipe has actually\nbeen strikingly simple. Take a large population of people living at or near the\npoverty line, add a truly unimaginable volume of illicit cash, and sprinkle\nliberally with a little corrupt police, military, and civilian government.\nSimmer for a few years and voila–a proper bloodbath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Narco-fueled combat in Colombia has gone on for decades. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We actually know precisely when it all started. Colombia was the engine behind the festivities in the 1980s. However, while Colombia is certainly still exciting in its own right, many to most of those original players are dead, incarcerated, or burned out. Mexico\u2019s unfortunate geography made it the superhighway across which untold tons of illegal drugs flowed. There were minor skirmishes here and there as a result, but nothing that could be called truly epic in the way of violence. Then on December 11, 2006, newly-elected Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched Operation Michoacan, and everything changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things are Different Down\nThere<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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If you call the cops in American you can reasonably expect somebody to help you. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Much hay has been made of\nthe purportedly tenuous relationship between Law Enforcement and minority\ngroups in the United States. However, north of the border if you get into\nserious trouble and dial 911 you can reliably expect some altruistic soul to\nshow up and help you. That is not necessarily the case elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Young gringos meandering about Juarez, Mexico, typically have more curiosity than sense. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A college student acquaintance\nof mine with more balls than brains found himself wandering Juarez with a pal\nsome years back just soaking up the sights. These two idiots ambled off the\nbeaten path and got lost. Frustrated and more than a bit frightened they were\nrelieved to encounter a pair of uniformed Mexican police officers. They\ninnocently approached these two on-duty cops and asked directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uniformed Law Enforcement Officers in many other countries can simply not be trusted to do the right thing. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The two Mexican policemen\npresented their weapons and stole everything of value these two young men\npossessed, leaving them with nothing more than their clothes and their passports.\nTruth be known they were fortunate to escape without becoming somebody\u2019s\ndinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truly Breathtaking in\nScope<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Mexican drug cartels have access to the world\u2019s most advanced small arms and light weapons. This compelling shot was taken from a cartel\u2019s Instagram feed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are about a dozen\nmajor cartels, and armed internecine squabbles foment most of the carnage.\nNames like Sinaloa, the Knights Templar, Jalisco New Generation, Los Zetas, La\nFamilia, and Juarez dominate the headlines. With the support of the likes of\nMS-13, themselves an ISIS-grade mob of butchers, these organized crime\nsyndicates carve up and defend territory with military-grade ordnance. While\nmost of the casualties are cartel soldiers, a great many innocent civilians get\ncaught up in the chaos as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sheer volume of cash driving this enterprise is staggering. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The amount of money involved is difficult to comprehend. Experts estimate that between $18 and 39 billion dollars are removed from the US and laundered each year. With funding on that scale, there is quite literally nothing these guys cannot afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A near-limitless amount of money gains Mexican drug cartels access to military-grade firepower. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mexican citizens technically have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. However, practically speaking private firearms ownership is illegal south of the border. The entire country has a single authorized gun shop near Mexico City, and the administrative burden associated with legally buying a gun is intentionally prohibitive. That has not stopped Mexico from becoming awash in state-of-the-art military ordnance. Guns flow south from the US and north from Guatemala. Sundry Central and South American brushfire wars of ages past serve to source much of the iron. The cartels are sufficiently well funded to afford the Truly Good Stuff as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Get Serious<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Power and money make the cartels brash. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is tough for us to\nimagine exactly how powerful some of these cartels have become. Their\nwillingness to use slavery, torture, extortion, and wanton murder to advance\ntheir goals shocks the civilized mind. However, on May 1, 2015, the world got\nto see up close exactly how went the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEl Mencho\u201d is the former cop-turned-psychopath who still pulls the strings at the Jalisco New Generation cartel. He is currently the most wanted man in Mexico. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Bad Guys, in this case, were operators from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Anxious to prevent the capture of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the cartel jefe or boss, cartel gunmen staged a spectacular day of chaos. Cervantes is an ex-policeman turned bloodthirsty killer with the nom de guerre of \u201cEl Mencho.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The surgical application of violence can paralyze a city. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They burned vehicles, set roadblocks, and generally sowed mayhem across the Mexico state of Jalisco and throughout the state capital Guadalajara. Cartel criminals incinerated eleven bank branches and five gas stations. In response, the Mexican government mobilized the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mexican military is a widely used tool in the ongoing war against the cartels. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is not encumbered by its own Posse Comitatus Act, so it is apparently a straightforward thing for the civilian leadership to unleash the Mexican military against cartel forces. In the pre-dawn darkness of May 1, four helicopters from the Mexican Air Force and Federal Police Force were tracking a heavily armed convoy believed to be carrying El Mencho. Convoy vehicles were operated blacked out in an effort at avoiding detection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assault helicopters like this one were easy meat for heavily armed cartel soldiers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the Mexican helicopters approached the convoy, CJNG gunmen opened fire. The nature of cartel armaments was a shocking surprise to the Mexican government forces. In a scene reminiscent of Blackhawk Down,<\/em> Mexican aviators suddenly found themselves lyrically outgunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The EC725 Cougar is a multi-mission combat aircraft capable of fulfilling a variety of combat roles. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the government\naircraft, a Eurocopter EC725 Cougar, carried eighteen federal troops. The\nCougar is a twin-engine combat assault aircraft that can be configured for a\nvariety of missions. The aircraft has a max gross weight of more than 24,000\npounds and a max speed of 175 knots or 201 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The RPG-27 is actually a suboptimal counter-helicopter weapon. However, when volley fired at close range the weapon is devastating. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cartel operators opened\nup with Russian-made RPG-27 rocket launchers at close range. The shooters fired\nhalf a dozen antitank rockets at the aircraft and connected twice. They also\nfired at a second aircraft but missed. One of the rockets struck the Mexican\nCougar in the tail boom and exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The critically damaged Mexican Air Force Cougar spun in after having been hit with a Russian antitank weapon. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After losing tail rotor\nauthority the stricken aircraft began to spin uncontrollably. The pilots tried\nvaliantly to regain control of the helicopter and maneuver it to safety but simultaneously\nran out of both altitude and options. The doomed aircraft hit the ground hard\nand exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Weapon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The RPG-27 was designed to defeat modern main Battle Tanks like the M1 Abrams and British Challenger. The weapon is seen here in the cutaway form to show its internals. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The RPG-27 is the\nultimate evolutionary development of the family of antitank weapons that\nincluded the Vietnam-era RPG-2 as well as the ubiquitous RPG-7. However,\nwhereas these early launchers were reusable designs that could be recharged\nwith individual rockets, the RPG-27 is a disposable single-shot affair\nphilosophically similar to the American M72 Light Antitank Weapon (LAW) or AT4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The RPG-27 is actually a bulky cumbersome beast designed to kill Armored Fighting Vehicles weighing upwards of 130,000 pounds. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Russians call the\nRPG-27 Tavolga<\/em> which loosely translates \u201cMeadow Grass.\u201d Developed by the\nState Research and Production Enterprise Bazalt, the RPG-27 was first issued in\n1989. This self-contained weapon weighs just south of 17 pounds and has an\neffective range of around 200 meters. Muzzle velocity is around 400 feet per\nsecond, and the 105mm tandem charge HEAT (High Explosive Antitank) warhead will\nburn through 600 mm of rolled homogenous steel armor, 1500mm of brick or\nconcrete, or 3700mm of earth. The Mexican Cougar never stood a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Considering its modest range, the RPG-27 lacks the means of attaching any type of optical sight. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The RPG-27 is obviously a fairly short-range weapon and as a result, features a pair of simple flip-up sights front and back. Putting the weapon into its firing condition takes maybe ten seconds. Basic cartoon instructions for the use of the RPG-27 are printed on the outside of the disposable tube. It\u2019s so simple a child could do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Russians will sell anything if the price is right. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The RPG-27 is in active\nuse with the Russian Army and is, like most Russian military hardware, widely\navailable for export. Exactly how these state-of-the-art anti-armor weapons\nfound their way to Mexico is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rest of the Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Miraculously, several of those aboard the doomed Cougar ultimately survived the crash. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nine people eventually lost\ntheir lives in the crash, one female cop and eight Mexican soldiers. Several\nother Mexican soldiers died in associated combat action. As a result, the\nMexican government made the CJNG their prime target. Three years after the\nshootdown Mexican forces closed in on a ranch east of the crash site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CJNG operators are well equipped. These cartel shooters armed with an array of belt-fed machineguns are shown with a rival cartel leader named Adolfo Mendoza Valencia. They killed Valencia and hung his body from a bridge soon after this picture was taken. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Holed up in the ranch\nwere six cartel soldiers suspected of having been involved in shooting down the\nhelicopter. Arrayed in age between 25 and 50, these half dozen suspects were\narrested without incident. Their associated stash of military-grade ordnance was\nundeniably impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The M60, or \u201cPig\u201d as we called it back in the day, is a weapon of distinction among cartel shooters. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Mexican Police seized\neight rifles, one of which was an M82A1 Barrett anti-materiel weapon. They also\ncaptured an M60 belt-fed machinegun along with plenty of ammunition and\nmagazines. Two stolen cars seized in the assault had been modified to mount M60\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cartel wars in Mexico continue apace. Voluntarily opening our southern border up to such chaos strikes me as manifestly unwise. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The state of the southern\nborder in the United States is obviously a thorny subject these days. The\nPresident wants a wall, while his political opponents would prefer a gigantic\nwelcome mat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The arrest and incarceration for life of El Chapo is certainly a move in the right direction, but the ready availability of epic amounts of money keeps the drug war vibrant. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Disconnected Leftists\nfirmly residing in some world other than my own somehow believe that it would\nbe a good idea to allow unfettered access between the United States and the\nlikes of the CJNG. Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2015 shootdown of a Mexican Air Force Cougar military helicopter demonstrated a marked escalation in the ongoing drug war in Mexico. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Drug money finances some of the most extraordinary excesses. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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