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friendly_iconoclast

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23. The Mexican military also has a problem with SF types deserting to work for cartels:
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 02:35 PM
Aug 2019
'The training stays with you': the elite Mexican soldiers recruited by cartels

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/mexico-drug-cartels-soldiers-military

Falko Ernst in Apatzingán municipality

Sat 10 Feb 2018 03.01 EST

Delfino was handpicked twice. At 18, he was chosen by the Mexican army to join its elite unit, the airborne special forces group known by its Spanish acronym, Gafe, where he specialized as a sniper.

Ten years later, he was recruited again – this time by the very people he’d been trained to kill...

...According to Mexico’s defence ministry, about 1,383 elite soldiers deserted between 1994 and 2015.

Defectors included members of units that received training in counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, interrogation and strategy from French, Israeli and US advisers, according to a 2005 FBI intelligence document.


...many, if not most of whom went to work for ruthless mobsters who had (and have, and are willing to spend)
hundreds of millions of dollars for security.

So what eventuated is what we have now: The originally legal stuff from the US that does get traced comes from small-timers
and wannabees/noobs of the big cartels. Or are throwdowns

The real military stuff is reserved for rich independents and the higher-up-the-food chain/'made' cartelistas.

Mark it predicted here: One or more (if they are not already) cartels will be publicly found to be have
diversified into the 'wholesale hardware purveyor' game...

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