Mexican Drug Lord's home raided.

[timbha]

cant understand some of the comments on here and how serious the people making them are.

The war on drugs is designed to achieve successes just like this but you cant just go and take the top man out. Investigators have to spend years if not careers tracking the drug chain from the street seller right up to the people at the top. Then they strike and take out the top people and disrupt the entire chain.....and if a few rivals, gangsters, corrupt politicians, and carriers "fall by the wayside" so much the better.

Drug money doesn't just fund more drugs deals, it finances terrorism and other dreadful crimes that could harm us all.

 

[Philzo-93]

I'm sorry but the police definitely did this when they saw all that money

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[ali jenkins]

It makes you realise that it really is small change to them when a couple of tourists get caught with a few £100k's of coke in their suitcase. Or even if a few £1m's get found in a boat off the coast. They'll just find some other person desperate for the cash to do it.

 

[emphyrian]

where do i sign up to be a mafia drug lord. Never found this job in the careers advice book at school.

 

[brightonrock]

There was a Stacey Dooley documentary on BBC3 a few months back about the cocaine trade, it was fascinating. The South American cartels, rather than ruling with an iron fist, were paying the poorest, most destitute villagers really well to grow the coca plants and make the coca paste that is processed to make the cocaine. They went from tin/mud huts to brick houses in thriving communities with air-con, fridges and satellite TVs. It was even paying for their kids to go to school. It was a weird thing to watch; when the cartels are making the billions shown in the OP, what's a few hundred thousand to them? It was enough to buy the villagers' service (rather than growing rice or coffee) and it improved the lives of hundreds of them - but obviously there's a reverse effect at the other end of the chain.

 

[timbha]

It's time to legalise drugs, it's clear who has won the war.

What else would you legalise for the same reason? Benefits fraud, travellers parking on public parks, pick pocketing on the Tube, using mobile phones when driving?

 

[hybrid_x]

cant understand some of the comments on here and how serious the people making them are.

The war on drugs is designed to achieve successes just like this but you cant just go and take the top man out. Investigators have to spend years if not careers tracking the drug chain from the street seller right up to the people at the top. Then they strike and take out the top people and disrupt the entire chain.....and if a few rivals, gangsters, corrupt politicians, and carriers "fall by the wayside" so much the better.

Drug money doesn't just fund more drugs deals, it finances terrorism and other dreadful crimes that could harm us all.

this is not true.

the CIA are behind the whole cocaine gig, and the dough is used for black ops.

 

[hybrid_x]

What else would you legalise for the same reason? Benefits fraud, travellers parking on public parks, pick pocketing on the Tube, using mobile phones when driving?

the key in this argument is that many politicans, lawyers, and judges all use drugs too.....it's a part of planet earth.....until some ethical types replace the current psycopaths in control.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Does a Drug Lord always outrank a Drug Baron?

Presumably, those achieving actual Drug Royalty have to be addressed as Your Royal Highness.

 

[fat old seagull]

What else would you legalise for the same reason? Benefits fraud, travellers parking on public parks, pick pocketing on the Tube, using mobile phones when driving?

All of this plus ....... dogging

 

[Lush]

Yet another reason why opening the debate on drugs policy is so important.

http://www.carolinelucas.com/media....d-a-major-step-towards-a-humane-drugs-policy/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/caroline-lucas/drug-law-policy_b_4767891.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK

 

[The Camel]

A Mexican Drug lord has had his home raided by police. What they found is staggering.

http://imgur.com/a/DYU2e

"The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years!
It is estimated to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone. Not to mention the ones in other countries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. Their money can buy politicians, cops, judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs! This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight."

I find the bit in bold very difficult to believe.

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Just a quick clarification from your local reporter, the photos are from a series of different houses and found over several years, the pile of cash is from a few years ago and hilariously the pólice when they showed it said it was only a few thousand as they looked to keep most of it and an enterprising local reporter (it was found in a swanky área of Mexico CIty) then asked someone from a bank how much they though it was, around 17 million was closer, quite what did happen to the money and any of the other suff confiscated is anyones guess.....Difficult living next door to the worlds largest drug market, someone is going to supply it......