{"id":4321,"date":"2011-09-16T04:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2011-09-16T04:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:09:24","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-not-what-you-want-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What You Need to Know, Not What You Want to Hear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static5.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ddadb4049e2ae031b110000\/narco-tank-drug-cartels.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Robert Bunker<\/strong> testifies before the <strong>House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere<\/strong> on the descent of Mexico into narco-barbarism:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/112\/bun091311.pdf\">Criminal (Cartel  &amp; Gang) Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: What you need to know, not  what you want to hear<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00a0&#8230;.Something very old historically, and at the same time very new, is thus taking place in Mexico. To use a biological metaphor, we are witnessing \u2018cancerous organizational tumors\u2019 forming in Mexico both on its encompassing government and its society at large. These tumors have their roots intertwined throughout that nation and, while initially they were symbiotic in nature (like traditional organized crime organizations), they have mutated to the point that they are slowly killing the host and replacing it with something far different. These criminalized tumors draw their nourishment from an increasingly diverse illicit economy that is growing out of proportion to the limited legitimate revenues sustaining the Mexican state. These tumors do not bode well for the health of Mexico or any of its neighboring states<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/criminal-insurgencies-in-mexico-and-the-americas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SWJ Blog<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dr. Robert Bunker testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on the descent of Mexico into narco-barbarism: Criminal (Cartel &amp; Gang) Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: What you need to know, not what you want to hear. \u00a0&#8230;.Something very old historically, and at the same time very new, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,262,216,46,126,309,132,574,87,199,336,583,573,39,270,14,372,66,306,131,162,558,10,161,211,13,375,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-academia","category-analytic","category-counterinsurgency","category-criminals","category-dystopia","category-failed-state","category-foreign-policy","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-latin-america","category-mexico","category-military","category-national-security","category-networks","category-non-state-actors","category-primary-loyalties","category-robert-j-bunker","category-security","category-small-wars-journal","category-social-science","category-state-failure","category-swj-blog","category-terrorism","category-theory","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}