The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico's Drug Wars

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STRATFOR published an analysis last Wednesday noting that a reliable source in Mexico informed us that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. The source also informed us that those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. The source further reported that the murder of the lead Tamaulipas state investigator on the case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas — whose head was delivered in a suitcase to the Mexican military’s Eight Zone headquarters in Reynosa on Oct. 12 — was a specific message from Los Zetas to Mexican authorities to back off from the investigation.

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I wonder how long it will be before our spec-ops teams are dropped in to eliminate these druglords.

With or without the blessings of Sr. Calderon.

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You know well that Calderon would have to be desperate to give us his blessing. These clowns are coming from accross the border and threaten our citizens. Time to deal with them is now.