Mexican Drug Cartel Declares War on Cheetos

Their hands are stained with the orange cheese dust of their enemies...

Mexican drug cartels are not strictly drug cartels. One of their fastest-growing markets is extortion of private citizens and businesses. Don’t pay, and you can be threatened — or worse. But largely, the cartels target small businesses and individuals, and stay away from the larger industries. Now several arson attacks over the weekend against a Mexican snack chip subsidiary might be the first time the cartels have targeted a multinational corporation. 

That corporation would be PepsiCo. According to press reports, masked men attacked five warehouses and vehicle lots on Friday and Saturday nights belonging to the U.S. snack and soft drink giant. More specifically, PepsiCo’s Mexican subsidiary: Sabritas. Dozens of yellow delivery trucks — which transport Sabritas chips and Fritos, Cheetos and Ruffles (among other brands) for the Mexican market — were burned. The good news: No one was injured or killed. At least one member of the Knights Templar cartel was reportedly arrested. Video has also emerged of firefighters battling the blazing trucks and the European Pressphoto Agency released images of Sabritas’ smiley-face mascot illuminated by the flames.

Dramatic Footage of Drug Cartel Shootout in Mexico

The Mexican authorities have released dramatic video of a shootout between federal police and alleged gang members.

Three people were killed in the gun battle in the southern state of Zacatecas.

It is the latest in a series of high-profile incidents as the security forces try to crack down on the country's drug trade.

Mexican Drug Cartel Hitman Has Eyes Tattooed on His Eyelids

Is this so his enemies never see him sleeping? Is it so that he never loses a staring contest? Or perhaps, it's just forward planning for the time he's destined to spend with some very randy fellow inmates.

The teen is Gabriel Cardona who was a member of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors.

Here's a video report.

Time to Wake Up - Mexican Drug Cartels Growing Pot in Northern California

Menudo, tortillas and hot sauce...

Brazen mexican druglords have moved their operations to U.S. territory and grow 50% of the nation's marijuana supply in California, they even employ white American teenagers in the marijuana plantations and kidnapped mexican civilians from Tijuana.

Chaos on the Mexican Border - Shocking Footage!

Today on Glenn Beck, Glenn's guest was a film producer who embedded himself with the Mexican narcotraficantes gang the "Zetas." He made a documentary film about what goes on at our border, and also teaches classes along the border to cops, Border Patrol, ICE and other Federal agencies.

This is quite shocking, folks, and this nation better wake up before it's too late. You think beheadings only happen in Muslim countries? They happen in Mexico by the DOZENS at a time!



This video shows just how real the possibility is that this violence can spread across the border to the United States.

Joe Dirt Donates $100,000 to Phoenix Police to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels

David Spade has donated $100,000 to the Phoenix police to fight Mexican drug cartels. Upon presentation of the check, Joe Dirt was quoted as saying "Is this gay?...Is this gay?"

Actor and one-time Phoenix resident David Spade has donated $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department. The department will use the much needed funds to buy high-powered rifles to defend the city from the growing influence of Mexican drug cartels.

Through his publicist, Spade explained that "these guys need to be able to do their jobs, and I am just happy I could help."

Spade says he got the idea for the donation after seeing a story on FOX News. Phoenix police say Spade called asking to donate to their rifle program after he saw that officers, outgunned and desperate for more firepower, wanted to buy their own semi-automatic rifles.

Spade, 44, grew up in the Phoenix area and graduated from Arizona State University. The "Rules of Engagement" star has helped out cops before, donating $25,000 to the family of a fallen Phoenix police officer last year.

Nine Decapitated Bodies Found Near Acapulco

Finish the border fence and finish it quick.

Mexican police on Sunday found nine decapitated bodies and the army identified eight soldiers who had died fighting powerful drug gangs and whose murders were seen as a brazen challenge to the government.

The bodies showed signs of torture. They were left on the side of a highway about an hour north of the tourist resort of Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero, state police said.

Their heads were stuffed in a plastic bag and left outside a shopping center.

A note left with the severed heads warned of more decapitations, the state police said.

Border Patrol Shot at with Automatic Weapons

Alarming news from Borderfire Report:

Early this month U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Tucson, Ariz. sector and agents of U.S. Immigration Michael Websterand Customs Enforcement were again fired upon with what appeared to be military type automatic weapons by Mexican drug smugglers dressed in military garb. Agents after observing a Flatbed tow truck on the Mexican side of the U.S. Mexican border backed up to the new international border fence. According to witnesses the tow truck backed up on a newly constructed earthen dirt berm which put the truck almost even with the height of the fence. The tow truck operator slowly unloaded two trucks laden with marijuana over the 18 ft. high fence to the U.S. side of the border. The entire episode was caught on the remote camera surveillance system and watched by U.S. predator and National Guard camera operators who were able to coordinate Border Patrol field agents to the scene. Shortly after arriving several Border Patrol agents came under fire after chasing and stopping the drug smugglers two vehicles near Douglas, Ariz.

MEXICO: AFTERMATH OF GUN BATTLE WITH NARCO KIDNAPPERS

Mexico's ongoing battles with gangs taking hostages resulted in a bloody battle Tuesday morning and ends with 20 arrested 4 dead and the death of a police officer in the dawn raid in which 2 hostages were rescued.

GRAPHIC!

CHAOS ON THE US / MEXICO BORDER: DOES ANYONE CARE?

Is anyone paying attention to the events occurring in Mexico near the US border? Mexican troops and police are involved in combat with Mexican drug cartels who are seeking to secure their operations of smuggling drugs, weapons and in some cases, people into America. Nearly every day there is a new story of either police or cartel members being killed in intense fighting. The drug cartels operate openly and freely for the most part. In some cases, as reported yesterday, going as far as to place "help wanted" to attract new "employees". This activity is taking place in many towns along the US and Mexico border and no one, including our government, seems to care. Just this week reports surfaced that Mexican drug cartels are operating paramilitary training camps on the border with Texas. WORLD AT WAR

If al-Qaeda were at the U.S. border kidnapping and decapitating people while circulating videos of its exploits, Americans would be apoplectic. It would mean that terrorists were no longer "over there" in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, but instead right at our doorstep.

For some reason, though, this country doesn't seem terribly alarmed that Mexican drug cartels are kidnapping, torturing and even beheading their victims – and posting videos of it on the Internet. They've established border-area training camps and amassed arsenals of assault rifles, grenades and armor-piercing ammunition.

Mexico has deployed about 22,000 troops and federal agents to major border and coastal zones in the past 15 months, including 2,500 troops and federal agents sent last week to Ciudad Juárez.

That far exceeds the U.S. troop commitment in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. But since this is the war on drugs, our nation seems not to be terribly concerned. We should be. It's time for a change in psychology because this threat is real, it's imminent, and it's happening right next door.

Nearly 200 people have died in Ciudad Juárez this year in a mafia-style turf battle between rival cartels.

After listing several high-profile assassinations of Mexican officials as well as U.S. citizens caught up in the violence, Thomas A. Shannon, an assistant secretary of state, told a congressional panel in February, "We can no longer just warn of this violence spilling over into the United States; we must acknowledge that it has."

For our side of the border, this remains strictly a law enforcement problem and does not require a military response. But we do believe Congress needs to act quickly on President Bush's Mérida Initiative request of $1.4 billion to help Mexico and Central America train police and coordinate programs to fight the cartels. And this country must stop handicapping our neighbors by failing to halt the flow of U.S. weapons and laundered money that fuels these gangs.

Let's face it: Drug gangsters are drawing straight from al-Qaeda's playbook to terrorize the Mexican public. If it's unacceptable overseas, we certainly shouldn't tolerate it next door.

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