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The astonishing violence that erupted in Mexico over recent days, following the killing of Jalisco New Generation cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, is not just a demonstration of the power of these shadow-government criminals. It’s also an indictment of decades of Democrat policies in the US. The open borders and ‘defund the police’ policies of successive federal administrations and multiple Democrat state governments fuelled the tidal wave of fentanyl that made the cartels rich, while two specific Democrat policies almost certainly armed the cartels to the point of outgunning the Mexican government, leaving at least 25 National Guardsmen dead.
Mexico Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said the troops in Jalisco were killed in six separate attacks following the killing of Oseguera Cervantes during a shootout inside his home as the Mexican military attempted to capture him. He also said some 30 criminal suspects were killed in Jalisco and four others were killed in Michoacan […]
Oseguera Cervantes was the leader of one of the largest narco-terrorist cartels in the country.
The criminal network was notorious for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States, and staging brazen attacks against government officials who challenged it.
The firepower the cartels were packing was the envy of some national armies.
Mexican forces seized rocket launchers capable of shooting down aircraft during the operation Sunday that killed cartel boss Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," underscoring how the Mexican Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) amassed military-style firepower over the years.
Authorities have previously linked CJNG to a 2015 attack in Jalisco in which cartel gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to bring down a Mexican military helicopter – one of the starkest examples of a cartel directly engaging federal forces with battlefield-grade weapons […]
Authorities said troops seized armored vehicles and heavy weapons, equipment more commonly associated with armed conflict than routine law enforcement.
Where did they get that sort of weaponry? “Fast and Furious”, and Afghanistan.
“Fast and Furious” is a gun-running scandal the Democrats and their media bootlickers have done their best to bury.
Fast and Furious was a Justice Department program that allowed assault weapons – including .50-caliber rifles powerful enough to take down a helicopter – to be sold to Mexican drug cartels allegedly as a way to track them. But internal documents later revealed the real goal was to gin up a crisis requiring a crackdown on guns in America. Fast and Furious was merely a pretext for imposing stricter gun laws.
Only, the scheme backfired when Justice agents lost track of the nearly 2000 guns sold through the program and they started turning up at murder scenes on both sides of the border – including one that claimed the life of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
And dozens more. All murdered by Mexican cartel bandits armed with US government-issued weapons.
It gets worse.
In one of the most astonishing cock-ups in modern history, when Joe Biden hurriedly bolted from Afghanistan, his administration left behind some $80 billion of military weapons. It was practically a lucky dip for militant groups around the world.
The stockpile included American-made firearms such as M4 and M16 rifles, along with older weapons already in Afghan possession from previous decades of conflict.
And the rest: armoured vehicles, grenade launchers, rockets, Black Hawk helicopters, Howitzers… you name it. Enough to literally equip an army.
And that is exactly what’s happened.
In a February report, the UN said that al-Qaeda affiliates – including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and Yemen's Ansarullah movement- had access to the weapons or were purchasing them on the black market […]
A former journalist based in Kandahar told the BBC that an open arms market operated in the city for about a year following the Taliban takeover, but has since moved underground, now functioning primarily through WhatsApp.
On the platform, wealthy buyers and local commanders reportedly trade both new and used US-supplied weapons, most of them originally left behind by US-backed Afghan forces.
Black market US-issued weapons have also turned up in Gaza.
Is it any stretch to imagine that the Taliban, whose financial operations rely heavily on the drug trade, were also dealing weapons to the cartels?
