Paljudes kohtades on siis sõjavägi tänavatele toodud ja otsivad kartelliliikmeid maastikul.
Mexico
: military forces are reported to be mobilizing in the streets of Uruapan (Michoacan state), preparing to counter cartel violence.
https://x.com/ThomasVLinge/status/2025684811323490498
Video of Mexican security forces rushing towards an ambush sight in San Isidro where national guard members were killed moments before by cartel gunmen.
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2025761449977528803
Kartelliliikmed liikvel
CJNG cartels have mobilized their ‘Los Deltas’ named after Delta Force against the Mexican government.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/2025693292730479055
Kartelliliikmed tänavatel
Armored vehicles, reportedly linked to the CJNG cartel, were driving through Zacapu, Michoacán in Mexico during ongoing clashes.
Zacapu has seen violence before, but armored vehicles are another level!
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2025747902975349120
Maantee läbikaevamine, et liiklus peatada
Apparently, narcos are excavating highways now, they're taking the blockade thing next level!
https://x.com/HrvojePM/status/2025703030688215446
"We will kill civilians": Mexico is engulfed in fire after the elimination of one of the most influential drug lords in the world - the leader of the "New Generation Jalisco Cartel", nicknamed El Mencho, reports the Milenio newspaper.
What is known at this moment:
- The special operation was carried out by Mexican and American law enforcement officers with the participation of helicopters with miniguns, after which a fierce shootout began.
- Immediately after the news of the cartel leader's death, militants declared war and promised to kill civilians.
- The CJNG cartel attacked a National Guard base, riots began in 8 states of the country, street battles are taking place in Guadalajara, militants are setting fire to trucks and blocking roads.
El Mencho was considered the most wanted man in Mexico and one of the most wanted drug bosses in the USA.
https://x.com/Beefeater_Fella/status/20 ... 1640892915
Kartelliliikmed poode põletamas
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is burning down Oxxo convenience stores across Puerto Vallarta right now.
This is a city that depends on tourism to survive.
Imagine booking a beach vacation and landing in the middle of a cartel war.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2025794843675333100
Piirkonnad, kus antud narkokartell on tegev
https://x.com/WW3_Monitor/status/2025639689474936985
Mehhiko armee kopterid lendamas linna kohal
Helicopters are now circling downtown and the Emiliano Zapata area in Puerto Vallarta after a narcoblockade set several cars and buildings on fire.
Not exactly the “local vibe” tourists expected.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2025732337489863057
Kanada turistid vaatamas hotelli katusel toimuvat
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2025710197025468611
USA üksus, mis tegeleb luureinfoga Mehhikos
A new U.S.-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Mencho,' a U.S. defense official told Reuters.
The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple U.S. government agencies, was formally launched last month with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. officials said.
The U.S. official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details on any information that the U.S.-military-led task force may have offered Mexican authorities. The official stressed the raid itself was a Mexican military operation.
A former U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity without referring specifically to the task force, said the U.S. compiled a detailed target package for El Mencho and provided it to the Mexican government for its operation.
This detailed dossier included information provided by U.S. law enforcement, U.S. intelligence, the former official said.
The former official added El Mencho was very high, if not at the top, of a list of U.S. targets in Mexico.
There is little information publicly available about the U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, or JITF-CC. Its website says its goal is to "identify, disrupt, and dismantle cartel operations posing a threat to the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border."
U.S. Brigadier General Maurizio Calabrese, who leads the task force, spoke to Reuters this month about how the U.S. military is channeling its experience battling groups like al Qaeda and Islamic State to map out cartel networks.
"The cartels operate differently than al Qaeda or ISIS, different motivations, which makes it even more important for us to identify entire networks so that we can disrupt and dismantle (them)," Calabrese told Reuters, using an acronym for Islamic State.
Calabrese noted that estimates vary widely but said there were possibly a few hundred core cartel members "at the top."
"But then you have anywhere from 200,000 to 250,000 independent contractors that will help you move these drugs," Calabrese said.
Jack Riley, a former senior official at the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Trump's designation of Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations last year unlocked new kinds of U.S. military assistance.
He said that could be helpful when it comes to U.S. military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance resources.
"Our surveillance capabilities are going to be probably unlimited, and that will really help with real-time stuff," Riley told Reuters.
"But these guys are extremely astute at being able to cover their tracks, cover who's in charge and where those people are."
A second U.S. defense official, speaking to Reuters ahead of the Mexican operation, said the new task force fit into a broader U.S. strategy to combat drug trafficking that has seen the U.S. military take increasing operational control of the border with Mexico.
It also includes now-regular U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats in Caribbean and Pacific waters, the legality of which has been challenged by Democratic lawmakers and legal experts.
"The whole idea of creating an interagency effort is to not have stray voltage, is to bring it all together, synchronize it," the second official said of the task force.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ ... 026-02-22/Ainus, mida me ajaloost õpime, on see, et keegi ei õpi ajaloost midagi.
Live for nothing or die for something.
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EA, EU, EH
The elimination of El Mencho hasn't just left a power vacuum; it has triggered a full-scale urban war. By targeting the international airport, CJNG is sending a message that they can paralyze Mexico’s infrastructure at will. This is the 'Culiacanazo' effect on a much larger, more dangerous scale
