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Leader of Mexico's brutal Zetas drug cartel captured

I have no doubt cartels would just murder any competition, legal or not.

I recently read a good book "El Narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency". It's a pretty good book, detailing the history of drugs in Mexico and the rise of "El Narco" and the culture that is being built upon them. The writer is a little biased but does stick to facts and statistics pretty consistently.
 

Apply that same logic to prohibition. Is it the Mobsters that now dominate the alcohol market? No. They no longer exist.
 
Rainman05,

The Al Capones of the world (thugs who capitalized on alcohol prohibition) all but disappeared after the 21st Amendment was passed. But your assertion is that wouldn't happen if other drugs are legalized. How does that make sense? Why are other drugs any different?

The cartels have a death grip on the industry because of prohibition, not in spite of it. They've been handed the black market on a silver platter. It makes no sense to point at the problems caused by prohibition as a reason to continue prohibition.
 

For those of us over age 40 or so, we've been hearing this sophistry for quite some time.

I can remember when the government bragged how much better things would be after it captured or killed or imprisoned, Pable Escobar, Carlos Lederer, and a very long list of other "kingpins". Pure political sophistry, meant to impress those who are easily impressed with headlines.

This man's capture will change nothing at all that is meaningful.
 

Heya HD. :2wave: Well it does weaken the Zetas. As his brother isn't the type that can lead and outwit Guzman. But you are Right. It does make for a good headline.
 

You discount the downward pressure of massive competition on prices. While these "drug lords" have armies to distribute raw agricultural products they lack what even our own tobacco companies have - access to rolling/packaging factories and contracts with millions of retail stores to sell their products. Growing marijuana and other raw materials for drugs are not what is highly profitable, it is the illegal distrubution (and lack of competition) that generates the big profits. Any moron can grow decent marijuana, and many can learn to grow very high quality weed. How much "boot legging" do we see now that alcohol is legal?
 
MMC said:
Heya HD. :2wave: Well it does weaken the Zetas. As his brother isn't the type that can lead and outwit Guzman. But you are Right. It does make for a good headline.
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And if the Zetas cease to exist, some other group will step up and take there place. That applies on both the individual level, and on the group/organization level.

And if the truth could be known, it's likely that Zeta and others are working in cahoots with somebody in CIA or DEA, running drugs one way and guns the other way. Until the prohibition is repealed, ain't nothing gonna change. :roll:
 

That's why back in the 60sixties they also shifted to pharmaceuticals. Also providing raw material for those. Mainly overseas. Moreover I would also start watching as to who is Putting up or backing the opening up of these Medical marijuana joints. The money behind whoever.
 

Marijuana is the least profitable product that they sell mainly due to its bulk. By weight, marijuana is not nearly as profitable as many other recreaional drugs. A truck load of marijuana yields less profit than a briefcase of cocaine, ecstasy, meth or heroin.
 

Yep.....and they have known this for at least 40 years. Which is why efforts were made to get the most out of that product as possible. Now all that is left is to play in the legal and medical business with it.

Going legal here isn't going to hurt them. It will help them in this area. As for the others. Different ballgame.
 

That's because anybody with a slightly green thumb can grow their own. :mrgreen:
 
Henry David said:
That's because anybody with a slightly green thumb can grow their own. :mrgreen:
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Sounds like.....someone will be sitting on those sacks of Seeds. :lol:

Not to mention they can get endorsements from Entertainers.

Just think of some stuff called. Lohan Longbottom leaf Kryto Chronica. Means this **** will blow your mind! :lamo
 
Ah, Los Zetas. I was in southern Mexico for a month a few years back and word was that they had control of just about all of Veracruz, but the group in question was not particularly violent, making their money primarily off the classic act of kidnapping targets of opportunity and demanding affordable ransoms from the victim's family. That said, the police still had M-16s and there were still military or paramilitary roadblocks in some places, though they were armed with a seemingly random and rather motley collection of M-16s, FN FALs, a few G-3s, and MP5s. In their defense, at one point I saw them in action, professionally stopping and apprehending a suspect in a very shiny, very new SUV with tinted windows.
 
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With the Zetas, Mexico reached the point at which the drug cartels were militarily qualified, with many of them having been trained by the US military at Fort Beginning. My goodness, 100 years of drug prohibition have brought us good things, eh?
 
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