Beyond The Horizon
ICYMI: The Skyrocketing Amount Of Crimes Being Committed On The Border
Ever since Mexico announced it's war on drugs in 2006, the country has become a much more dangerous place and no place in Mexico is as dangerous as the border.
In this episode, we take a trip south of the border to check in on uptick in violence in border cities and how the atrocities are not only growing in number, but in scope.
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Baja, Chihuahua among top 3 in Mexico for ‘atrocities’ | BorderReport
- Duration:
- 13m
- Broadcast on:
- 27 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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And in today's episode, we're going to talk about several of those locations and how they're the most dangerous spots that have seen the most torturous lanes, dismemberments, mass shootings, and women's murders, not to mention all of the abductions and missing people. So today we have an article from Border Report and the headline. Border states, Guanajuato, have most torturous lanes, dismemberments, mass shootings, and women's murders, a non-profit says. This article was authored by Julian Resendez. The border states of Shihuahua and Baja, California are high on the list of places in Mexico where most atrocities are taking place. And while I don't know anybody down in Shihuahua, I can definitely tell you that things in Baja are spinning out of control. As I've said many times when I was growing up, I spent a lot of time down in Baja, mainly down in Tijuana. And I met a lot of great people down there, and I still have a lot of good friends that live in the region. And the stories that they have to tell about how things have degenerated, it's all bad. And while Tijuana and Baja have always been relatively dangerous places, things really exploded after 2006 and Felipe Calderon declaring the war on drugs. That's when things really spun out of control. Up until that point, the biggest fear in a place like TJ or down in Baja was getting rolled by the federalis, not by getting run up on by a cartel, unless you're down there looking for, you know, drugs or whatever, then well, fuck around and find out. But if you're just a tourist, somebody down there to hang out have a good time, chances are that's what was going to happen. You were going to have a good time. And I've said a million times a year before on the podcast that all the times I've been down to Tijuana, the only time I ever ran into trouble was with the federalis, but all of that really changed after 2006. There was just a whole different feeling in TJ. The Mexico City non-profit common cause that puts out the list that defines an atrocity as tortures laying, dismemberment, incineration, mass shootings, or the use of extreme non-lethal violence against a woman among others. Chihuahua recorded 442 such crimes during the first nine months of 2023, followed by Guanajuato with 434 and Baja with 413. Guanajuato, where CJNG and the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang are trying to exterminate each other, had more victims than almost twice as many mass shootings as either border state though. And Guanajuato is just the Wild West at this point. Seems like every time we turn around, we're hearing about somebody storming a bar down there, killing a bunch of people randomly, and it just is on repeat. It's like it doesn't stop. And all of this violence, obviously, is revolving around the battle for supremacy between CJNG and Santa Rosa, at least here in Guanajuato. Obviously, there's different players on the stage, depending on where you are geographically speaking, but in Guanajuato, there is no doubt that CJNG is running the table. Some of the most gruesome acts of violence include the beheading of seven people in Gerato in June and the kidnapping of five young men in Jalisco, one of them seen in a video made to kill one of his friends. In Chihuahua, a New Year's Day prison escape left 10 guards and seven inmates dead. And we covered that when it happened, it was bananas, that prison break. Those dudes were out there, lighten the whole entire world up, it seemed like, turned Guanajuato in the surrounding area into like a mini Fallujah. This report compiled stories that, taken as a whole, paint a picture of cruelty and pain behind the crime statistics. It also shows that, far from the official myth about organized crime, a great portion of these atrocities are perpetrated by people who do not belong to criminal organizations. Common Cause said, in its report summary, well, I don't know who thinks that. Certainly not down in Mexico. The unfortunate truth is, no matter what you do down there, you're going to get taxed by the cartel for the most part. Oh, you want to sell hot dogs in the plaza? Well, you're going to have to pay the tax. You want to go and sell, you know, trinkets at some store. Somebody's going to show up and say that you need security. And it's not like the mafia, right? Where the mafia, for the most part, if you're not involved in their life, if you're not involved in their thing, you're not going to get caught up. Unless, of course, there's some sort of, you know, business dealing or whatever, and they're leaning on you, but down here in Mexico, forget it. You can't do shit without the okay of the cartel. Mexican authorities at the highest level blame their country's violence on the drug gangs. There is criminal violence, yes, but there is also gender-based violence, family violence, and group violence, the group said. Well, that's the truth in any country, right? Not only does Mexico have the usual issues that countries are dealing with when it comes to violence against women, when it comes to domestic violence and all the rest of it. They're dealing with literally a cartel war, and not just two different groups, or one group against three other groups. We're talking about a multitude of groups here. Obviously, Cinaloa cartel and CJNG, they range supreme, but there's a bunch of other little gangs and little cartels out there that are causing all kinds of chaos. And what, you think the fat cats in Mexico City are the ones suffering? Or is it the people that are out here trying to sell some limes that are out here, trying to sell some bananas? We all know this story already. While the fat cats in Mexico City continue to count there to Ching, the regular people of Mexico are left holding the bag. And the sad part is, they don't even have the ability to defend themselves. There's no second amendment down in Mexico. You can't have a gun down there. They have like one gun store in the whole entire damn place. And it's in like Mexico City, unlike a military base. So the regular people out here who are being impressed, regular people who are being extorted, they have no hope of help. There's no relief coming. So what are they supposed to do? What are people supposed to do when hope is absolutely torn away from them? And I know that Biden and Amlo had a meeting recently. And I think that Amlo for all of his bluster and bullshit was on the right path. I think that it's time to invest in people. And I don't just mean invest in people in America. I'm talking about investing in people in the Americas. 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Those of us who have been residents of Juarez, our lives, are used to seeing homicides in public, the disappearance of young women, which in the past used to cause outrage, and prompt people to pressure the authorities. "We see it as normal now," said Oscar Menes, former Chihuahua state criminologist. "And once you get to that point, and this sort of shit is normalized, forget it. People become despondent, they know that there's no sort of recourse for them, they know there's nobody that's coming to save them, they know that there's no hope, they know that there's no help. So what are people supposed to do? I know I keep asking that question, and it's rhetorical, but you wonder why there's so much migration. This is why roughly 88% of people that are migrating from Mexico, they say they're migrating to get away from the violence. And when you look at all the reports, and you dive into the topic the way we do, there's no doubt that they're telling the truth. The violence that is so pervasive down in Mexico has reached levels that we haven't seen except for on battlefields, right? I'm talking about the shit you see ISIS doing. That's the kind of shit these cartels are doing down in Mexico." He said this numbing effect allows criminals to go about their business with impunity and gives authorities leeway to ignore public safety issues in certain neighborhoods. Yeah, they've given up. They know that they have no hope of restoring order. They know that the cartels are in charge of insert area here, and nothing that the military or the government can do is going to change that. Maria, Palar, Deziga, an investigator with common cause, said public opinion surveys, show three out of five Mexicans never report crimes. She said that's because they fear retribution from criminals and hostile treatment from police when they try to file a complaint. So it's not only the cartels that are pressing them, but they're being extorted by the police as well. And I could tell you from my own personal experience, that's a fact. The federalities down there, at least back in the day, oh, they sure did love the role you for a quick 20 or 30 bucks. So I'm sure if you're a Mexican citizen down there, the last thing you want to do is, you know, call the police and get robbed the second time. She continued. It is the most politicians advantage that not all crimes are reported, so they can say things are not so bad. Well, anyone saying that things are not so bad down here in Mexico is lying to you. This is a very, very dangerous situation, and the whole last country of Mexico is in jeopardy of slipping directly into narco statehood. And I wish that was hyperbole. It is not. Things are very tenuous at best down here, and they don't look like they're getting better anytime soon. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. 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