{"id":2709,"date":"2008-05-09T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T14:14:17","slug":"taking-the-war-to-the-mexican-state-4gw-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Taking the War to the Mexican State, 4GW Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#8217;s equivalent to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24524193\">acting FBI director was assassinated earlier on Thursday<\/a>, most likely by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Zetas\">Zetas<\/a> or similarly skilled team of hitmen working for one of several of Mexico&#8217;s crime cartels currently being pressured <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSN2140609720080421\">by recently dispatched Mexican Army troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscient of attacks on the Italian state during the 1970&#8217;s and 1980&#8217;s\u00a0by leftist Red Brigades and the Mafia, the\u00a0drug cartels of Mexico are hobbled neither by antiquated Marxist ideology nor old-time, rustic, crime family traditions. They are adaptive, professional, transnational in outlook and far better equipped than state police forces on either side of the border. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/storyid.aspx?Storyid=4640\">Mexico&#8217;s<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southalabama.edu\/internationalstudies\/sdmweb\/crptn%20in%20Mexico%20lasa2003.pdf\">corrupt<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.uchicago.edu\/951127\/lomnitz.shtml\">political <\/a>elite <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypost.org\/cgi-bin\/readart.cgi?ArtNum=122921\">by<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/archive\/2006-07\/2006-07-26-voa23.cfm\">contrast<\/a>, cannot be bothered to restrain their greed enough to properly pay, train and arm the very security forces that defend their primacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fester<\/strong>, the resident 4GW aficinado\u00a0at the vibrant left of center blog, <strong>The NewsHoggers<\/strong>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newshoggers.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/hollowing-out-o.html\">greatly expands on the economic aspect of competing resource resource flows in this conflict<\/a>. Nice job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#8217;s equivalent to an acting FBI director was assassinated earlier on Thursday, most likely by Zetas or similarly skilled team of hitmen working for one of several of Mexico&#8217;s crime cartels currently being pressured by recently dispatched Mexican Army troops. Reminiscient of attacks on the Italian state during the 1970&#8217;s and 1980&#8217;s\u00a0by leftist Red Brigades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,262,87,17,14,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-4gw","category-foreign-policy","category-global-guerillas","category-networks","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}