{"id":3529,"date":"2010-09-08T03:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2010-09-08T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:04:15","slug":"narcos-copycat-global-guerrilla-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Narcos Copycat Global Guerrilla Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cartels are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-mexico-pemex-20100906,0,4996948.story\">following in the footsteps of Nigerian delta rebels and Iraqi insurgents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though to my mind, this attack was more of a demonstration than a determination to bring the state to it&#8217;s knees. Narco business would be impinged by a true state collapse in Mexico which would activate the USG in unhelpful ways. The cartels would rather someone else\u00a0mind the store while they get on with making money unhindered.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/\">John&#8217;s <\/a><\/strong>next book should just be titled <strong>&#8220;See, I told you so&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cartels are following in the footsteps of Nigerian delta rebels and Iraqi insurgents. Though to my mind, this attack was more of a demonstration than a determination to bring the state to it&#8217;s knees. Narco business would be impinged by a true state collapse in Mexico which would activate the USG in unhelpful ways. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,310,262,457,132,574,17,199,303,583,573,270,372,66,10,605,211,375,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-black-globalization","category-dystopia","category-failed-state","category-global-guerillas","category-insurgency","category-john-robb","category-latin-america","category-mexico","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-primary-loyalties","category-state-failure","category-tactics","category-terrorism","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}