The illegal trafficking in human body parts is widespread globally; and Americans and others are being killed for them. No American should feel safe traveling to Mexico, the world’s second deadliest country last year[2]. And no Americans should do business with Mexico until this brutal murder is solved and the killers are brought to justice—and face life in prison, or the gallows.
He was the wonderful son of old friends of mine, and he grew up in Southern California. He was loved deeply by his parents and so many others.[3] He had been surfing near Rosarito Beach and went to a hotel for the night. Two men were shown on the hotel video with an ice chest; and he was killed and his vital organs were removed for harvesting.
What happened to him could happen to any other American, and will. The Mexican authorities have closed the case, and his murderers have not been brought to justice. Mexico should be boycotted by all Americans and U.S. businesses until the killers and their accomplices are found and dealt with severely.
Anyone who understands the harvesting of human organs realizes that it constitutes a sophisticated enterprise in which time is of the essence. Not a minute can be wasted. Once he was murdered and his organs were removed, and presumably placed in the ice chest, they had to be transported quickly or they were of no value to anyone.
Also, they had to be surgically removed by one or more persons who were skilled in doing so. Any mistakes would render the human parts worthless on the international organ market for the purpose of transplantation. It has been noted:
Criminal networks increasingly engage in kidnappings, especially of children and teenagers, who are then taken to locations with medical equipment. There they are murdered and their organs harvested for the illegal organ trade.[4][5]
This heinous crime demands the attention of the Trump Administration and Mexico’s leadership, and action. Like the lovely Kate Steinle’s brutal murder in San Francisco[6], this young American must be remembered and his death must be avenged. Until then, Mexico must be shut down and closed from an American perspective.
Nothing less will suffice.
© 2017, Timothy D. Naegele
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[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see www.naegele.com and http://www.naegele.com/documents/TimothyD.NaegeleResume.pdf). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., http://www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/americas/mexico-second-deadliest-conflict-2016/ (“Mexico was second deadliest country in 2016”); see also http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mexico-now-more-deadly-iraq-afghanistan-1620921 (“Cartel drug war made Mexico more deadly than Iraq or Afghanistan in 2016”) and http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/Killings-continue-in-Mexico-s-Baja-California-Sur-11212064.php (“Cabo San Lucas beheadings: Cartel killings traumatize resort town as heads found in cooler”)
[3] His name is being withheld to protect his parents and their privacy.
[4] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Illegal_organ_trade (“Illegal organ trade”) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_for_body_parts (“Murder for body parts”)
[5] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Prosecuted_cases:
In 2014, an alleged member of the Mexican Knights Templar Cartel was arrested for kidnapping and murdering minors. Children were found wrapped in blankets and stuffed in a refrigerated container inside a van. Various accounts have stated the arrested man is part of a network that kidnaps and kills minors, after which their organs are removed. The Cartel’s other sources of income include drug trafficking, extortion, illegal mining, and, illegal logging.
See also http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/03/mexico-cartel-member-held-organ-theft-case-201431821815141191.html (“Mexico cartel member held in organ theft case”) and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/17/cartel-mexico-organ-trafficking/6548691/ (“Police nab cartel member in organ trafficking case”)
[6] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Kathryn_Steinle (“Shooting of Kathryn Steinle”) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city (“Sanctuary city”)
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It is so so sad, Smilin Jack.
I remember him as a sweet, handsome, hard-working kid, who lit up his proud and loving mother’s life, as an “only child” can do.
Tragically, much of Mexico is a lawless cesspool, where the cartels reign and make money in countless ways.
I thought human trafficking and slavery were the depths of depravity, but murder and the harvesting of human organs are inhuman.
And they are global phenomena.
See also
https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/human-trafficking/ (“Human Trafficking”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/abortions-and-autos-kill-more-in-america-than-guns/#comment-10138 (the tragic deaths of 61 million American babies via abortion since our despicable Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/poverty-in-america/#comment-8084 (“Life At The Bottom”)
Wars and wholesale human suffering (e.g., Syria) grab headlines, as they should, while America’s far-Left and its lackeys (e.g., James Comey, Robert Mueller) try to destroy the democratically-elected Trump presidency.
See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/americas-newest-civil-war-2017-and-beyond/#comment-10245 (“LEFTIST HATRED PRODUCES MURDER”)
Helter skelter is afoot globally.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/global-chaos-and-helter-skelter/ (“Global Chaos And Helter Skelter”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/emp-attack-only-30-million-americans-survive/#comment-10008 (“North Korea Prepares EMP Catastrophe For America”); but see https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/what-and-where-is-god/ (“What And Where Is God?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/what-and-where-is-god/#comment-426 (“For A Lovely Woman Named Cynthia Whose Faith In God Will Help Her”)
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ORGAN DONORS
Timothy, your story is very disturbing. I have been to the Rosarita Beach Hotel a number of times when I was a teenager. At one time, the hotel was deserted and in disrepair. My parents started going there when it again became a operating hotel business, although I remember it had a green colored pool. The water was unfiltered and unclorinated, but we survived. It was cheap.
I wonder if the “body snatchers” were casing the hotel for single guys with no buddies who may have been easy prey. We will never know because I don’t think the Policia are solving very many cold homicide cases in Mexico or Ensenada. There are simply too many unsolved murders and too few honest detectives in Mexico. No doubt the victim’s Calif. drivers license was designated: “Organ Donor”. Its not supposed to happen until you die naturally or in an auto accident.
We should detail some FBI Agents to go down there and look into it. Make it a requirement for any kind of foreign aid or even trade deals or cooperation. Trump needs to step-up if he wants to make America Great Again. Fact is, we are not safe in Mexico anymore. I would not go there today. We do need a Wall to keep illegals and drug traffickers out and Americans safe at home (in).
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Thank you, Craig, for your comments—with which I agree completely.
I do not know the name of the hotel, and have never been to Rosarito Beach. However, a friend in San Diego, who knows the Mexican beach communities well, says they are not safe today.
Another friend who has had a house for decades farther down the Baja, on the Sea of Cortez, told me two days ago:
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“GREY MAN” IS A SAFE MAN ALMOST EVERYWHERE
Is your Friend’s house on the Sea of Cortez located on the Gulf of California side in or near the town of La Paz? Give me a location or town to zero-in on. Some specifics besides (“Everywhere” is dangerous in Mexico). I know a good friend I grew-up with in the seventies who went to Los Cabos earlier this year and nothing happened to them. Ditto with a neighbor down the street who rented a house near Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula for a whole month last year.
Cancun was built by the Drug Cartels with Drug Money, as was Miami, Florida ( Pablo Escobar). Sure, there was violence in all these cities connected with the Drug Cartels. I suspect the orders are to leave paying tourists in Cancun alone for the most part.
Stay in a crowd and blend-in and watch yourself after dark would be a good precaution just about anywhere these days, at home or abroad. Be the “Grey Man”. The world is not getting any safer as America declines. Trump is not changing any dominant trends that I can detect, as yet. Same endpoint regardless. Glide-path.
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Thank you again, Craig.
As indicated in my article above (see fn. 3), the young man’s name is being withheld to protect his parents and their privacy. The same thing applies to my friend with the house in Baja.
All of us have been friends for many decades; and we watched the young man grow up and become the “apple of his parents’ eye.” Indeed, I thought about him on Sunday morning, May 7th, and wondered what he was doing these days, so Googled him and learned that he was dead. Thereafter, I was able to fill in many of the details.
Needless to say, I was shocked and stunned, and still am. Aside from all of the adjectives that I have applied to him above, he was a true star in every way. Thus, I have a very personal interest in seeing that justice is realized; and that what happened to him never happens to any other American.
I have a wonderful photo of him that was included with an earlier draft of the article above, but publishing it would invade the parents’ privacy.
Lastly, I have a genuine love for the Mexican people. Having grown up in Southern California where the wonderful Mexican culture is part of our culture—and knowing terrific Mexican-Americans to this day—I cannot praise them more highly; and vast numbers of them are suffering at the hands of the vicious and lawless cartels.
Most Mexican-Americans are very hard workers; they assimilate into the American society quickly, and often the second generation only speaks English; Mexican food has been my favorite for decades, although it is fattening; and each of my grandkids has one grandparent who is of Mexican-American heritage.
See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/illegal-immigration-the-solution-is-simple/ (see also the comments beneath the article)
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MY LINE IN THE SAND
I agree, most Mexicans make good American citizens, provided they follow and obey all our Immigration Laws, as written. ( My grandfather was born in Mexico City and had Dual Citizenship in Mexico and the U.S.). Its pretty rare today as we have a one passport law to go along with a one drivers license law. Govt. wants exclusivity and control.
We can choose to change the law any time we want, provided Congress gets the necessary votes and the President signs. Executive Orders alone are not the way Democracy is supposed to work. Similarly, declaring a state a “Sanctuary State” by edict is anarchy. Sorry, I do have to draw the line here as I am no proponent of “open borders” as is the case with many of our political elites of both parties, especially here in the State of Calif.
Just remember Timothy, I did NOT request any person’s name to my knowledge. However, I did ask which town your friend has a house in ( “on the Sea of Cortez”). Unless its a “Two-Horse ( Dos Caballo Ciudad) Town”, I don’t think you are disclosing personal information if you did give a town or the nearest town anyway. Anonymous sources are commonly regarded as unverified and therefore, not an established fact. Maybe hearsay or rumor. Not equivalent.
You many have heard or been told by a third party about various occurrences inside Mexico, but not necessarily by a local Mexican National, who definitely would know their own country and speak freely about the local news. My experience is Mexicans are very verbal and are often involved in hearsay (gossip). Informal communication is what the common people often do everywhere, at home and in developing countries alike. Just not me.
As you know, Hearsay is not admissible in a court of law as evidence. Neither are personal opinions. If someone says (writes) it happened, ex parte, then that’s someone’s opinion. If someone said they heard it happened ( not a witness) then its hearsay. Just to be clear. Without a specific town name its not necessarily a fact as presented.
So, who knows what the truth is? Have to be able to collaborate “facts”. ( reference a newspaper article or the such). Otherwise, its potentially just more “Fake News”. The Mainstream Media has lost their credibility long ago with the public by doing slipshod journalism one too many times. Sorry. Grade: Incomplete as written.
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Understood.
It is a small town where everyone knows everyone else, certainly if they have lived there for years or decades.
Thus, I err on the side of privacy.
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BOYCOTT MEXICO!
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/who-is-next-the-murder-of-a-young-american-and-the-harvesting-of-his-body-parts-in-mexico/ (“Who Is Next? The Murder Of A Young American And The Harvesting Of His Body Parts In Mexico“); see also https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4188347/los-cabos-mexican-beach-gunmen-kill-three-men/ (“Terrifying moment gunmen use MACHINE GUNS to kill three men in the middle of a Mexican beach popular with Brit families“)
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SAFETY IN NUMBERS
Actually, I hear its pretty good and safe in Mexico City, at least the better neighborhoods. Nobody bothers Billionaire Carlos Slim who lives there. He does not even need his bodyguards, unless he comes to the U.S.A. When he shows up at the local Catholic Maronite Church, he has two armed bodyguards in L.A. not Mexico City.
If tourists go as part of a group tour to Mexico and stick together, the odds of being robbed of your organs is pretty slim, I suspect. Much hyped. Stay away from Tijuana and Ensenada and other border towns as well as interior areas where Narcos grow poppies. Those are real dangerous, lawless locations.
In contrast, most tourist areas are actually pretty safe most of the time. Just stick to the tourist parts of town. Venture out and look out. The poor surfer (boy) just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes, Shit Happens. That is truly unfortunate for him and his family, but not necessarily others who go to Rosarita Beach. In fact, I liked it when I was a kid. Just tired of all the beaners in Calif and Liberal open-border (globalist) assholes.
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Thank you, Craig.
I have talked with lots of people who go/live there, and things have changed radically from when you were a kid. It is not safe for American tourists, or for young Mexicans.
I have discussed this in my article above.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Prosecuted_cases:
See also http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/03/mexico-cartel-member-held-organ-theft-case-201431821815141191.html (“Mexico cartel member held in organ theft case”) and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/17/cartel-mexico-organ-trafficking/6548691/ (“Police nab cartel member in organ trafficking case”)
The cartels are operating at full tilt, and the Baja is not safe, period.
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MEXICAN KARMA AND CHARLES BRONSON
Remember the movie “Death Wish” where vigilante Charles Bronson ( an architect from Arizona) was detailed to New York City when it was a crime infested ghetto under Mayor Lindsey in the 1970’s. Sanitation workers on strike and piles of garbage in alleys and overflowing dumpsters.
Remember the news accounts well. They even defaulted on their Muni-debt but in the end, a reluctant President Gerald Ford had to bail-out NYC with Federal $$. So, we have been on the Road to Perdition for some time already.
Anyway, there may indeed be a role for a contemporary adventurous Charles Bronson type of character in today’s Wild West Mexico. Go down as a innocuous (Gray Man) Tourist. Get a girl friend to accompany you, as having a partner with you draws much less suspicion by border guards on both sides of the border. Then let her go and bring out the guns you had hidden in the car.
Bait in some bad guys and go to town ON THEM. Severe their heads and put them on a spike in full public view. This is how Cartels communicate and I strongly suspect, they at least respect the message, if not the messenger. Anyway, go down to get some game and let it be known on the way home why, preferable on the internet once you are safely home.
I think killing shitheads anywhere is one of the best ways known to man to let them know that “what goes around comes around”. Its Kill or Be Killed. Given those options, I know what I would be doing. It needs to be done. Let them “complain”. Who cares. Sure not me. Besides, Sticks and Stones don’t hurt anyone. Actions get their undivided attention.
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Thank you again, Craig.
What I have wanted is to publicize the killing and mutilation of my friends’ wonderful son far and wide, and to have the White House and the Mexican government act on it and avenge his death.
I cannot name him, or show his photos without the parents’ permission. However, his memory is forever front and center in my mind. My guess is that similar tragedies have befallen many Mexican families, as the articles cited in footnotes 4 and 5 of my article describe.
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CALIFORNIA IS “NOT WORKING-OUT” ANYMORE
My sincere condolences to you and his family. I just want to point out this is just the beginning of our troubles. As America collapses, we can expect to see far worse mayhem. Real Violence won’t likely be confined to just Mexico in the future. Expect it right here in the U.S.A. eventually. In California, any criminal offense redefined as “non-violent” under Proposition 57 is no more than a Misdemeanor Level Offense at most any more.
This means no arrest, and no jail. In fact, the Police can only issue a citation to appear in court, not arrest suspects as before. If you don’t show, no bench warrant. Scott Free to repeat. So, criminals have license to rape, pillage, and plunder the civilian population in California with no worries. If I were you, I would be worried. We are screwed in Mexico and California alike. Its “not going to work-out “. Too bad. Better move-on to “greener” pastures.
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Thank you again.
Governmentally, California is a microcosm of the nation.
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Part of what may be coming nationally has been described by radio host Michael Savage.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/americas-newest-civil-war-2017-and-beyond/#comment-10559 (“CIVIL WAR IF TRUMP TAKEN DOWN”)
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U.S. Warns Citizens About Traveling To Mexico [UPDATED]
Bloomberg has reported:
See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-22/u-s-warns-citizens-about-traveling-to-cancun-as-homicides-rise (“U.S. Warns Citizens About Traveling to Cancun“)
As stated in my article above:
See also https://www.dallasnews.com/news/mexico/2018/03/24/toxic-gases-killed-american-family-vacationing-condo-mexico (“Half my family is gone’: Toxic gases killed American couple, children vacationing at condo in Mexico“)
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There is not enough detail to be believable. Name a state, or region. There is mucho danger, but not everywhere. Stay in groups. Buy drugs in USA, not Mexico.
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Thank you, David, for your comments.
First, as stated in the article above, the young man’s death and the harvesting of his body parts occurred at a hotel in Rosarito Beach, south of San Diego.
Second, as stated in my comments above:
Sorry, I would like to provide more details, but cannot.
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Boycott Mexico, And Live
Killings are taking place in Mexico, on an ever-accelerating basis. France 24 has reported:
See https://www.france24.com/en/20180907-mexico-finds-166-bodies-mass-grave-veracruz-drug-cartels (“Mexican authorities discover 166 bodies at mass grave site in Veracruz“) (emphasis added)
No one knows how many others have been killed, like the young American in my article above.
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Mexico To Deport Migrant Caravan Members After Tijuana Arrests
As my article and comments above make abundantly clear, the cartels are running Mexico today. They are killing both Americans and Mexicans, and harvesting their body parts, and kidnapping Americans and others for this reason, and as part of human trafficking.
See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/who-is-next-the-murder-of-a-young-american-and-the-harvesting-of-his-body-parts-in-mexico/ (“Who Is Next? The Murder Of A Young American And The Harvesting Of His Body Parts In Mexico“) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/illegal-immigration-the-solution-is-simple/ (“Illegal Immigration: The Solution Is Simple“) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/human-trafficking/ (“Human Trafficking“) (see also the extensive comments beneath each of these articles); see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/remembering-the-comfort-women-victims-of-human-trafficking-and-slavery/ (“Remembering The Comfort Women, Victims Of Human Trafficking And Slavery“)
Put succinctly, there should be no limit to the punishments for the cruel perpetrators of such human atrocities. They must be subject to the harshest measures imaginable.
Will any of Mexico’s governmental officials and entities deal with these catastrophes, or are the officials involved too much in the pockets of the cartels, or too scared to stop them?
Julie Watson has written for the Associated Press:
See https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/20/mexico-deport-migrant-caravan-members-after-tijuan/ (“Mexico to deport migrant caravan members after Tijuana arrests“)
NONE should be given asylum; and the federal judge who blocked President Trump’s ban for illegal border crossers must be removed from the courts, permanently and shamed forever.
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4,000 Died Or Missing On Way To USA
Maria Verza has written for AP News:
See https://www.apnews.com/aaac850c517441b4a1936cb59cdc7040 (“Honduras mother waits for migrant son missing en route to US“) (emphasis added); see also https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/04/three-migrants-found-dead-near-texas-border-in-as-many-days/ (“Three Migrants Found Dead near Texas Border in As Many Days“)
These are heart-wrenching stories, but the United States cannot solve the problems of crime and poverty in this world, any more than Europe can.
Yet, both have been overrun with illegal migrants, many of whom have been killed along the way, or thrust into the dark webs of human traffickers, or those who engage in the harvesting of human body parts—like the wonderful son of my old friends, about whom I wrote the article above.
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British Woman Who Died In Mexico Was Flown Home Without Her Eyes, Heart And BRAIN
Sebastian Murphy-Bates has written in the UK’s Daily Mail:
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6476109/British-woman-died-Mexico-flown-home-without-eyes-heart-BRAIN.html (“British woman who died in Mexico was flown home without her eyes, heart and BRAIN ‘after they were stolen by organ traffickers'”) (emphasis added)
This echoes what I wrote in the article above and the comments beneath it about the wonderful son of old friends of mine, who was killed savagely at Rosarito Beach, Mexico.
This could happen to anyone, and does; and your children, grandchildren or other loved ones might be next.
MEXICO MUST BE BOYCOTTED!
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Boycott Mexico After Another Savage Killing [UPDATED]
My article above describes what happened to the truly wonderful son of old friends of mine. His tragic fate is not an isolated incident. Indeed, I have written about Amanda Gill and others.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/who-is-next-the-murder-of-a-young-american-and-the-harvesting-of-his-body-parts-in-mexico/#comment-15404 (“British Woman Who Died In Mexico Was Flown Home Without Her Eyes, Heart And BRAIN“)
Now, Adrianna Zappavigna has written for Australia’s news.com.au:
See https://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/north-america/man-who-died-in-mexico-flown-home-without-brain-stomach-and-heart/news-story/6474b0c9a1131613c48d4101a23da44c (“Man dies in Mexico, sent home ‘without brain, stomach or heart’”) (emphasis added); see also
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=262934 (“Korean man who died in Mexico returned with missing organs“) and https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/dead-soldiers-parents-want-answers-after-disturbing-autopsy-results/news-story/e15c3102e5bc39c7f682e056058e5144 (“Dead soldier’s parents want answers after disturbing autopsy results“) and https://www.news.com.au/national/tough-new-laws-to-crack-down-on-illegal-organ-trade-to-be-considered-by-parliamentary-inquiry/news-story/6734f8d6b5501578e8e21007cb1c7051 (“Tough new laws to crack down on illegal organ trade to be considered by parliamentary inquiry“) and https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/mum-gives-birth-to-dying-baby-to-donate-organs-to-other-sick-bubs/news-story/251b40acd60a976ed4d0ab0ef24379a2?from=rss-basic (“Mum gives birth to dying baby to donate organs to other sick bubs“) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661167/1-American-killed-1-injured-gunmen-Acapulco.html (“American . . . killed in Acapulco“)
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Bill O’Reilly recently reported on NewsMax on YouTube that in 2017, about 65,000 Mexican nationals were either killed or disappeared with no trace. In addition, about 150 government officials were murdered in one year by the Cartels, as well.
Drug Cartels run and own Mexico but the News media in the U.S. does not like to cover it because places like Cancun, Mexico are economically reliant upon American Tourists. In Mexico, construction is one way the Cartels launder their drug money. I agree, I would not visit Mexico but thousands of Americans do it every year and apparently have no concerns about it.
In fact, one neighbor down the street goes to Cancun every January for a month or so. They like it down there. I would say if you go to a 5-Star Resort and stay there or only go on daytime outings ( the nearby ruins ) with a group, then you are probably safe enough. Venture out alone or at night and you could be picked-off by a panther or a bandito. All depends…..
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Thank you, Craig, for your additional thoughts on the subject, which are similar to what you wrote after my article above was first published.
I have advised family members and friends to boycott Mexico completely, to send a message loud and clear. Absent this, the cartels will operate without any constraints.
And yes, Mexicans themselves are victimized by the cartels more than anyone.
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BOYCOTT ARUBA TOO ?
Bill O’Reilly called the police on Aruba in 2009 “The Keystone Cops” regarding the disappearance of one young lady named Natalee Holloway (presumed dead). Van der Sloot was the person of interest in this murder investigation but nothing could be proven without a body and so he was ultimately released by the authorities.
I would suggest that today, if any American travels anywhere in the developing world alone or without a guide or as being part of a group tour, then he/she is taking their chances. In that case, good luck to you.
[Joran van der Sloot and Natalee Holloway]
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway (“Disappearance of Natalee Holloway”)
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Thank you again. Yes, I agree.
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The Brain Death Myth Behind Multi-Billion-Dollar Organ Transplant Industry
Catholicism Pure & Simple has noted an article from LifeSiteNews:
See https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/neurologist-exposes-brain-death-myth-behind-multi-billion-dollar-organ-transplant-industry/ (“Neurologist exposes ‘brain death’ myth behind multi-billion-dollar organ transplant industry”) (emphasis in original)
Why should anyone be the least bit surprised about this? It is just another way to kill human beings, so that their organs can be harvested for sale on the international organs market.
My dear friends have lived through this pain with the tragic death of their wonderful young son, as described in my article above.
Any doctor, nurse or “others” who participates in any of this must be imprisoned for the rest of his or her life, at the very least. Nothing less will suffice.
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Never agree to being an organ donor on your driver’s license, and teach your family members to be your advocates if you are hospitalized.
My personal experience as a patient supports this position. It was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center which partnered with Mayo Clinic to film surgery in my case. No one mentioned it to me as the patient. I was not expected to survive from a head wound.
Thank you for sharing this critical information.
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Thank you for sharing your experiences, and your recommendation. I agree with you completely.
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Boycott Mexico! [UPDATED]
Please read or reread my article above, about the killing of my long-time friends’ wonderful son, and the harvesting of his body parts in Mexico. I just spoke with a women, with respect to whom the same thing happened to a relative of hers in Mexico.
See also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/who-is-next-the-murder-of-a-young-american-and-the-harvesting-of-his-body-parts-in-mexico/#comment-15404 (“British Woman Who Died In Mexico Was Flown Home Without Her Eyes, Heart And BRAIN“)
And yes, this and similar tragedies are happening to Mexicans, in vast numbers, as the Mexican cartels run wild and literally rule increasingly-large parts of Mexico.
Adry Torres has written for the UK’s Daily Mail:
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7217035/Mexico-reaches-time-high-17-065-murders-recorded-six-months-2019.html (“Mexico’s murder rate reaches all-time high with 17,065 homicides recorded in the first six months of 2019 – an average of 94 killings every day“) (emphasis added; chart and videos omitted); see also https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9446065/mexico-murder-rate-highest-ever-94-killings-each-day/ (“MURDER MAYHEM: Mexico murder bloodbath spirals out of control reaching all-time high with 94 killings every DAY“) and https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html (U.S. Department of State: “Mexico Travel Advisory”) and https://www.apnews.com/c197a3ee34834ea69f745975fa632ea2 (“Mexico sets 1st half murder record, up 5.3%“)
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AMERICAN TOURISTS LOVE MEXICO
Middle Class Americans, like my neighbors down the street (Waylee), have earned the right to enjoy their retirement. They like to get away from the neighborhood and the goings-on and visit other states and countries annually. Its a limited time window for them, as you need to be healthy. So, each Winter for 3-4 weeks, one of their many trips includes a 3-4 Week stay at a 4-Star resort (compound) in a rural area near Cancun, Mexico. They love it there.
They tour the countryside around Cancun during their stays and at least during the daytime, tell me its quite safe for them. Many others do likewise in Cabo San Lucas, as well. Each individual has a different tolerance for Mexico, some more than others.
A friend I grew-up with and his wife went to Cabo a couple of years ago. Federal Policia in-uniform with Kevlar vests, military helmets, and wire framed (stock) automatic rifles are posted along main streets in CABO as armed guards to deter Cartel violence and reassure tourists things are secure. However, my friend was not impressed and told me he has no plans to revisit Cabo on the Baja Peninsula. Having armed military guards everywhere did not reassure him. So, what is acceptable or tolerable for some tourists is not so with others.
The problems in Mexico will continue as long as we continue to buy their drugs and pay for them in U.S. Dollars. The “War on Drugs” has been another bitter defeat, no matter how much money we have spent on it. Ditto on the War on Poverty or any other “War”. Its just a business, I am afraid. Instead of cracking-down we are legalizing drugs such as marijuana. The potential tax money is irresistible for near bankrupt states and cities.
Most tourists are only concerned with themselves, not unfortunate victims who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and lost their heart in Old Mexico ( not San Francisco). Americans for the most part are quite indifferent, in my observation and experience many certainly are NOT out to solve the world’s problems. ( They want President Trump to take care of it all ).
The analogous situation I see is with Venezuela. Venezuela went from one of the highest standards of living in Latin America in the 1950’s to a Failed State in 2017. In only 50 years, like Detroit, Mich. they collapsed. So, just about any individual state (California) or country can eventually do likewise if there is enough corruption, money, and the ability to elect a dictator and print money until the ink runs-out (Zimbabwe is going back to using their own currency once more ). Once you hit rock bottom, you stay there for a long, long, time.
Venezuelans have an interesting way of putting it: For a long time before Hugo Chavez, “we were all peeing in the pool. Hugo Chavez was just the first to do it from the diving board “. I see the underlying meaning quite clearly: everyone is in on it in one way or another and everyone suffers accordingly. Same happened to the German People in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Not all Germans were members of the NAZI Party, but they all went along with the prosperity and perks while they lasted. Only when things went south did some of them figure-out the true nature of what they embraced. Others continued to stubbornly refuse to concede the obvious. By then, its too late to do much good anyway. I think Democrats will be doing likewise in due course. After all, history repeats for a reason: Human Nature.
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Thank you, Craig, for your comments.
I agree with much of what you have said. However, many Mexicans are afraid of Mexico today; and Baja is not safe at all. The cartels run it.
The capper was when a lovely Mexican woman told me today that a relative of hers was killed in Mexico, and the relative’s body parts were harvested.
As the cartels “diversify” into other businesses in addition to drugs, kidnapping and body-part harvesting are increasing, because both are lucrative financially.
So so sad. Indeed, many Americans of Mexican descent live in the past, and remember fondly their times in Mexico and yearn to visit to this day, even though the risks of being killed and mutilated are enormous. Moreover, they subject family members to their fantasies of what Mexico used to be, and put such family members at extreme risks, which is irresponsible.
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I agree with Tim, It is irresponsible to put such family members at risk by still going there. I have two aunts who work for the Mexican Police Department they tell me how corrupt and dangerous Mexico is. My uncle was decapitated and my cousin was almost sold into prostitution. I myself am Mexican and I afraid of Mexico today, which is why I will never go back.
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Thank you, Sarah, for your comments and insights.
So so tragic. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I came to love the Spanish/Mexican culture, food and people. Put succinctly, they are wonderful.
Today, the cartels run large swaths of the country, and terrorize/brutalize Mexicans and non-Mexicans alike.
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See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10086625/Chinas-real-life-Squid-Game-Organs-harvested-100-000-political-dissidents-prisoners.html (“‘They’ll take your liver and you won’t even know’: China’s real-life Squid Game: How organs are harvested from THOUSANDS every week for a ‘kill to order’ market – and why the world is powerless to stop it”)
China is pure evil, and on the verge of launching World War III . . . unless Brain Dead Joe and Willie Brown’s ho Kamala give them Taiwan like they gave Afghanistan to the Taliban.
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China Is Pure Evil
See https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/testimony-warns-chinas-organ-harvesting-killing-50000-year/ (“Testimony warns China’s ‘organ harvesting’ is killing 50,000 per year”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836429/As-Biden-visits-Asia-China-launches-South-China-Sea-drills.html (“China buzzes Taiwan jets and holds military drills in South China Sea”)
The world must never forget that China snuffed out Hong Kong’s fledgling democracy; it has enslaved approximately 1 million ethnic minorities including the Uyghurs; and it has used EMP weapons to “fry” Indian soldiers in its border war with that country.
Also, it gave the Coronavirus pandemic to the world. And now it is preparing to invade Taiwan.
Russia’s KGB-trained killer Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping may arrive at the Gates of Hell simultaneously.
See https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18556168/president-xi-suffering-brain-aneurysm-coup-covid-lockdown/ (“President Xi ‘suffering from deadly brain aneurysm’ as he faces coup over devastating Covid lockdowns, reports claim”)
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Mexico Under Siege
See, e.g., https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-13/murder-spree-at-the-border-attacks-in-western-states-of-jalisco-and-guanajuato-stun-mexico (“Murders at the border and attacks in Jalisco and Guanajuato stun Mexico”) and https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/us-consulate-tijuana-advised-shelter-in-place-as-chaos-violence-erupt/ (“Public, US employees in Tijuana warned to shelter-in-place as chaos, violence erupt”) and http://tribunecontentagency.com/ (“As wave of violence plagues Mexico, US issues travel alert”) and https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ze4q/mexico-cjng-siege-doble-r (“Whole Cities Are Under Siege by Narcos in Mexico”)
All of this was predictable. The cartels rule Mexico; and Hispanic-Americans are not safe there because the cartels can tell the accents, and target them.
See also https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-violence-jalisco-cartel-vast-empire-mexico/ (“Week of widespread drug violence shows power of Jalisco cartel’s ‘vast empire’ in Mexico”)
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TOURISTS VISIT MEXICO THE SAFE WAY
The Cartels have pretty much taken-over most parts of Mexico and are the real “powers-that-be” down South. The political elites obviously allowed this to progressively occur due their systemic cultural (political) corruption. Mexico is an Oligarchy anyway, not necessarily a true Democracy. The Cartels had the money to buy or force their way into the very top of Mexican society and over the years have gradually taken things over for the most part. The Cartels own Mexico now.
Knowledgeable or informed Americans won’t visit Mexico anymore because, as you say, its become far too dangerous to go there. However, most U.S. tourists show little concern because many Middle Class American and Canadian Tourists stay in (secure) All-Inclusive Resorts @ $300/night which are segregated from the nitty gritty (poverty/crime) of Mexican society. Tourists who travel in group tours are relatively safe, as long as they stay together.
Such resort facilities are the tourista Disney-lands of Mexico, albeit, far from enchanted. Tourists often eat Mexican-American food just like here in L.A., drink purified bottled water , and speak primarily English while visiting these walled and gated resorts. Its not really visiting “Mexico” because most tourists have little appetite for a real Adventure Trip, especially in their late sixties or seventies. As a matter-of-fact, nether do I.
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Yes, of course you are correct, Craig.
I think about my young friend who was butchered by the cartels on a surfing trip to Rosarito Beach, and what he and his parents have lived through.
Everyone should read my article above, when thinking about a trip to Mexico; and this includes Hispanic-Americans, whose accents can be detected by cartel members.
See also https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-violence-jalisco-cartel-vast-empire-mexico/ (“Week of widespread drug violence shows power of Jalisco cartel’s ‘vast empire’ in Mexico”) and https://thehill.com/policy/international/3607727-state-department-warns-us-travelers-of-kidnapping-risk-in-mexico/ (“State Department warns US travelers of ‘kidnapping risk’ in Mexico”) and https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-14/cartel-violence-peters-out-in-tijuana-after-violence-leads-to-national-guard-presence (“Baja California tries to return to normal after a weekend of cartel violence”)
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Another Death In Lawless Mexico
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11639089/California-public-defender-dies-falling-fourth-floor-Mexico-resort.html (“California public defender fatally falls from fourth floor in Mexico”)
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Of Course The Mexican Authorities Want His Body Cremated
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11647613/Family-California-defense-attorney-says-Mexican-officials-pushing-body-cremated.html (“Mexican officials pushing to cremate California attorney, family say”)
To cover up how he died.
My dear friends did not know their son’s body parts had been harvested until his body was returned to California.
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Mexico Is Lawless
See, e.g., https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-reporter-published-story-next-100759751.html (“In Mexico, a reporter published a story. The next day he was dead”)
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Rosarito Beach
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11742049/California-lawyer-dead-Mexico-beaten-one-person-attorney-claims.html (“Lawyer found dead in Mexico was ‘beaten by more than one person'”)
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Boycott Mexico
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11848381/Texas-trooper-issues-stark-travel-warning-avoid-traveling-dangerous-Mexico.html (“Texas trooper issues stark travel warning to Americans after three women vanished crossing the border to visit a flea market – as it’s revealed more than 550 U.S. citizens are now missing in Mexico”)
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SHEPPLE AMONGST WOLVES
A great many people go missing each year from our National Parks, often to never be heard of again. They disappear, be it under suspicious circumstances or just no apparent reason. Park Service Law Enforcement Officers (LEO’s) are understaffed during the Summer Season and concentrate on patrolling the major highways and roads, as well as nearby high use areas inside the park.
I can see why from past experiences, such as Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park (1995). You better carry a handgun in your day pack whenever you go hiking if alone. You can not legally do that in Mexico, so that is one good reason to stay home. No American is truly safe whenever they are unable to protect themselves. Most Americans are helpless in the Outdoors or in another country. Just the way it is. Sheep amongst wolves.
It does not really matter where or in which country either. Mexico or Wyoming is all the same if you become a homicide victim. Dead is dead either way. Its a numbers game. When your number is up, then you die. Death and Taxes are inevitable, as the saying goes.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/why-hundreds-of-people-vanish-into-the-american-wilderness/
Millions of tourists visit National Parks each year. Its a numbers game, sorta like how may people got Covid per million individuals in the general population at-large. Same statistical concept for American Tourists who visit Mexico every year ( Millions ) and are never heard of again. Many are probably victims of foul play in any case (Cold Cases). Some just want to go “off the radar” for personal reasons. Who knows?
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/annual-visitation-highlights.htm
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/11/gone-missing-national-parks
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Fascinating, Craig. Thank you for sharing that.
I have hiked for years (e.g., the Santa Monicas, the San Gabriels, Mammoth, the Grand Canyon, Ireland). Often, I have been part of a group. Other times, by myself.
By and large, I have never been concerned. One time, I almost stepped on a baby rattler — which are very venomous– but someone stopped me. Another time, my footing almost gave way, but thank God it didn’t.
What you describe are people being targeted, like my friends’ wonderful son was at Rosarito Beach, and killed. I was stunned and deeply saddened, and remain so as I write these words.
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A CAUTIONARY TALE IN OLYMPIC NAT’L PARK, 1995
Let me be more detailed and specific in my past experience while on a short day hike from Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park in August, 1995. I remember all the details vividly and why and how I was prepared for any contingency:
First of all, I was experiencing a prolonged bout of dysentery with no apparent medical cause. I visited a Physician in Seattle beforehand who said to give it some more time but if the intestinal bug did not go away, then ” we will have to have a look inside to see what is possibly going-on”. So, I was chronically tired all the time.
Nevertheless, I wanted to get out and went to a ferry to visit Olympic National Park anyway. Full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes. I took some precautions, as I always do anymore due to all the crime we have and National Parks are said to be like a small city in the Summer Season. Homicides, rapes, assaults and other crimes against persons happen regularly to some visitors each year in our National Parks.
I parked my 4- Wheel Drive and went for a hike on Hurricane Ridge. After a bit, a decided to lay down and take a nap in the sun. I picked a low spot (swale) just off the beaten trail to rest. I fast fell asleep in the sun but was awakened by some nearby voices saying, in-effect, “where did that weasel go”. Now, it could easily be a matter concerning someone else. No way to tell. I looked around but did not see anyone nearby.
I moved away as a precaution up the nearby hill into a stand of trees. I had the “high ground”. Next, I pulled out my binoculars to scan the ground and adjacent surroundings for any hikers but did not see anyone. Inside my Jansport Daypack was a loaded .357 Magnum S&W revolver, just in case. I also had a bottle of water. I proceeded once again to take a nap. Thankfully, No more interruptions or disturbances for the rest of the day.
At the time I was renting a room in Bellevue, WA from a one Eileen Maura who manged a grocery store in Richmond Beach, WA. I told her my story that evening and she said: ” It sounded like some pretty aggressive hikers were nearby”. She offered no more comments. I never told her what I had in my rental inside her house.
I never fully confided in anyone. Can’t take any such risks with Liberals, then or now. Nothing has improved in American society or culture since then (1995). In-fact, its gotten much worse in blue cities like Seattle, WA.
You can bet if anyone were to have tried to approach my position in the timber on a hill they would have had a lot to lose- a lot more than I . By the way, its technically illegal to carry a weapon in any National Park. However, I could care less about the law when it comes to my personal security. I will “do what a man must do and suffer what men must suffer” as the Greeks said once captured in Persia. I am the ultimate “gray man”.
You and you alone are personally responsible for your own security and safety at all times. Nobody else can protect you or guarantee your safety. Take reasonable precautions at ALL times and make sure any unavoidable altercations only happen on YOUR terms, not someone else’s. ( R.A. Yett, former Green Beret and Eagle County Deputy Sheriff, Eagle, Colorado, 1975 and owner of his high dollar, tactical (International) private contract security company, “The A Team” (1992.)
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Thank you for sharing, Craig. Thankfully I have never been apprehensive on my hikes regarding “intruders,” except on a hike above Carpinteria, California.
First, I ran into cattle, and made sure not to provoke them. Next, came a horse that started to attack me; and I kept a large tree between it and me. Finally, it went away.
I ended up hiking longer than expected, and saw the lights of Ojai below. As I was coming down a fire escape road, an animal was following me on the right side of the road.
I had camera equipment with me, and started banging a metal tripod every time I heard the animal. Finally, a truck came down the road, and the driver gave me a ride back to my car.
I had encountered Bobcats and Coyotes many times on my hikes; and my guess is that it was a Mountain Lion. The noise of my tripod probably kept it at bay.
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Mexico Is Not Safe
See https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/california-man-missing-mexico-found-29648111 (“California man missing in Mexico found dead in secret burial site months later”)
I’ve been to Todos Santos, which is charming and up the coast from Cabo San Lucas. Americans, and Hispanic-Americans should avoid the country like the plague.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todos_Santos,_Baja_California_Sur (“Todos Santos, Baja California Sur”)
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So So Tragic
https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/chinese-doctor-recounts-organ-harvesting-victim-alive-watching/ (‘Chinese doctor recounts organ harvesting victim being alive and watching him”)
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Boycott Mexico!
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12478997/deadliest-cities-world-mexico.html (“Danger across the border: Nine Mexican cities place among the top 10 deadliest in the world”)
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Enough Is Enough. It’s Time To Systematically Crush The Cartels
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12579133/Horrific-moment-Mexican-cartel-goon-SKELETON-mask-leads-six-innocent-boys-aged-14-18-deaths-sending-victims-parents-warped-clip.html (“Horrific moment Mexican cartel goon in SKELETON mask leads six innocent boys aged between 14 and 18 to their deaths – before sending victims’ parents the warped clip”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12574291/How-Europe-stole-Americas-crown-worlds-cocaine-capital.html (“How Europe stole America’s crown as the world’s cocaine superpower: Map reveals how ruthless cartels stop at nothing to smuggle £50billion of ‘white gold’ a year from Colombia to the streets of London, Paris and Rome”)
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