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BREAKING: Trump says he will designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
dispatch from the Mexican state of MichoacĂĄn, where rival cartels are waging war not over drug trafficking routes but over control of the multibillion-dollar avocado industry. More than a dozen criminal groups are fighting over the avocado trade in and around Uruapan, the capitol of MichoacĂĄn, âpreying on wealthy orchard owners, the laborers who pick the fruit and the drivers who truck it north to the United States,â writes reporter Kate Linthicum. Organized crime in Mexico, she explains, is diversifyingâit isnât just about drugs anymore:
In parts of Guerrero state, cartels control access to gold mines and even the price of goods in supermarkets. In one city, Altamirano, the local Coca-Cola bottler closed its distribution center last year after more than a dozen groups tried to extort money from it. The Pepsi bottler left a few months later.
In Mexico City, bar owners in upscale neighborhoods must pay taxes to a local gang, while on the nationâs highways, cargo robberies have risen more than 75% since 2016.
Compared with drug trafficking, a complex venture that requires managing contacts across the hemisphere, these new criminal enterprises are more like local businesses. The bar to entry is far lower.
The report also notes that homicides are at an all-time high in Mexico, and that cartels have taken control of migrant smuggling in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the Texasâs Rio Grande Valley, the busiest stretch of the border for illegal immigration.
Livingston Parish man has been arrested as a part of an investigation by the FBI.
Details are limited but here is what we know.
Randy Miller Jr. of Denham Springs was arrested this morning and has been charged with 500 counts of pornography involving a juvenile under the age of 13.
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a reply to: LurkNoMore
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Andrew W. Marshall (September 13, 1921 â March 26, 2019)[1] was an American foreign policy strategist who served as director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment from 1973 to 2015. Appointed to the position by President Richard Nixon, Marshall remained in office during all successive administrations that followed until his retirement on January 2, 2015.[2][3][4] He was succeeded in the role by James H. Baker.[5]
Priority Area 5: Fundamentally upgrade the data infrastructure of the public behavioral health care system to allow for improved monitoring of service utilization, quality of care, and patient outcomes.
Foreign Policy named Marshall one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers, "for thinking way, way outside the Pentagon box".
they are locking up the socks and laundry detergent at Walmart
originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: MountainLaurel
they are locking up the socks and laundry detergent at Walmart
Hi, ML. Are you making a funny? Locking up socks and laundry detergent?! This can't be serious.