The startling coordinated attacks on federal police and the army by La Familia yesterday in Michoacan and Guerrero will bring the term “narco-insurgency” to the lips of various pundits and mavens before the week is out.
Here is a sampler to get up to speed:
Nearly eight years ago, Dr Steven Metz described two emerging forms of [...]
July 12, 2009
A Narcoinsurgency Sampler
July 12, 2009
La Familia Strikes Federales and Army
Yesterday–Saturday July 11– the faith-based gangsters La Familia staged what El Universal calls “the biggest offensive in the history of organized crime in Mexico against federal forces and military.”
Triggered by the arrest earlier in the day of the meth cartel’s “coordinator of coordinators” Arnoldo Rueda Medina AKA “La Minsa”, La Familia struck [...]
