[SkinnyFella]

Note to self... don't drive SUVs/minivans full of people in Mexico if you don't know the locals. You might get confused for rivals and get lit up.

[MissMary1980]

Dumb woman got her Brazilian butt lift and got everyone fucked up., they were not there for meds they thought they were Haitian drug dealers

[Budd Dwyer]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

A family friend has a daughter who is epileptic, and her meds are currently running the family about $80,000 per year. Fortunately for them, they are pretty wealthy. But what would an average person do?I guess just wait to die.

80G's? Daaaamn...
Here, in a shithole part of Europe , it cost 15-20 bucks a pack, probably multiply it by 3-4 because of the treatment or number of drugs, but still, it's a fucking fraction of that money....
US is a fucking shithole when it comes to healthcare expenses

[Eternally Solo]

Latavia 'Tay' McGee was previously indicted on March 3, 2016 on five counts of unlawful conduct towards a child, a daughter who was eight at the time. The child tested positive for methamphetamines.

Eric Williams was previously busted for 'distributing crack near a school'

Zindell Zaquille Mckinley Brown was accused of domestic violence in the first degree in July 2019, which was determined as Nolle Pro, which means abandoned. A domestic violence charge in the second degree from the same date was remanded to the magistrates family court in Florence, South Carolina.

Shaeed Woodard had lengthy drug charge sheet with records showing he pleaded guilty to drugs manufacture or possession in September 2015 and was sentenced to 100 days in January 2016 – which was taken as time already served.

[houseoftechno]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

Meds ARE are LOT cheaper in Mexico than in the U.S. I know a lot of people that I used to work with, who went to Mexico for medical care, and also for prescriptions, which cost a few dollars there, for what costs $500 in the U.S. Only in the U.S. is medicine this expensive, AND OUR TAXPAYERS FUNDED THE RESEARCH THAT DEVELOPED THE DRUGS! Everywhere else the drugs sell for $1 or $2 per prescription. But in the U.S. every prescription is in the $100s of dollars. People complain about socialized medicine. But THAT is exactly what they are getting here. The drug companies here are VERY socialist, meaning they help themselves to YOUR money.

Yes, I totally agree. Medicine is a huge rip off in the US and it all starts with insurance. Due to insurance, nobody blinks an eye when simple bloodwork is invoiced for $800 because "the insurance company is paying for it." It is a self-inflating feeding frenzy.

Another example is AETNA and CVS, which are the same company. AETNA harassed me with letters and phone calls, and then dropped my prescription coverage, to coerce me into using CVS. I just ignored them until they dropped my coverage, then I had a few words with a few of those cunts until they took me off of their sucker list with their pharmacy scams.

[houseoftechno]

I wonder if Eric still owns those pretty diamond rings?

[Pyramid_Head]

Originally Posted by Eternally Solo ↗

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Latavia 'Tay' McGee was previously indicted on March 3, 2016 on five counts of unlawful conduct towards a child, a daughter who was eight at the time. The child tested positive for methamphetamines.

Eric Williams was previously busted for 'distributing crack near a school'

Zindell Zaquille Mckinley Brown was accused of domestic violence in the first degree in July 2019, which was determined as Nolle Pro, which means abandoned. A domestic violence charge in the second degree from the same date was remanded to the magistrates family court in Florence, South Carolina.

Shaeed Woodard had lengthy drug charge sheet with records showing he pleaded guilty to drugs manufacture or possession in September 2015 and was sentenced to 100 days in January 2016 – which was taken as time already served.

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Nothing but criminals themselves, let's save that $50K and use it for something useful.

[Guns N' Coffee]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/w...americans.html

Criminals in Mexico Violated Their Unwritten Rule: Leave Americans Alone




The five men were left prostrate on the sidewalk outside their black pickup truck, their shirts pulled over their heads, bare torsos pressed against the ground, their bound hands spread before them almost in supplication.

The handwritten letter on the truck’s windshield read like a formal, albeit chilling and remarkable apology: the Gulf Cartel Scorpion Group was very sorry that their members accidentally shot and killed two Americans and a Mexican bystander while kidnapping two more U.S. citizens.

The men were being offered up to the authorities, the letter said, to make amends for disturbing the peace. On Friday, Mexican prosecutors charged the five men in connection with the abduction and killings.

While Mexican drug cartels thrive in a vacuum of law and order that persists inside Mexico, there is an unspoken rule that many members of organized criminal groups are careful not to cross: do not touch Americans.

The United States takes attacks on its citizens seriously, and the response to such violence, on both sides of the border, can be ruinous for a Mexican criminal group.

“When American citizens are targeted, it brings pressure from the U.S. government, they get their security agencies involved and then start putting pressure on Mexico to act,” said Cecilia Farfán Méndez, a Mexico security researcher at the University of California, San Diego.

“The worst thing for the cartels is that they have to dedicate resources to countering Mexican authorities that mostly leave them alone,” she added. “It’s not good for business.”

Cartels can often outgun the Mexican authorities or simply buy their cooperation, but they know that prodding the U.S. government into action can hinder their ability to operate. And in recent years, organized crime has come to rely on the Mexican government’s inability to control it effectively.

Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, came to office promising a new approach to quell violence: avoiding direct confrontation with criminal groups, in favor of addressing the root causes of criminality like corruption and poverty.

But his strategy, which he branded with the slogan “hugs, not bullets,” has done little to tame extraordinary levels of violence or diminish the ever-expanding power of cartels that traffic drugs and migrants across the U.S. border and terrorize Mexicans at home.

In many communities, Mexicans live in fear of criminal groups that commit daily acts of violence that by and large attract little attention outside the country. And while cartels avoid deliberately targeting Americans, their business model rests on shipping narcotics north that have helped fuel an epidemic of drug deaths in the United States.

The Biden administration has been reluctant to criticize Mr. López Obrador openly, including over security problems in Mexico, wary of threatening his cooperation on migration.

But the attack on four Americans last week became an international scandal, increasing pressure on the U.S. government to do more to combat crime south of the border, and eliciting calls from Republican lawmakers to authorize U.S. military force to confront the cartels.

The calls prompted an outcry in Mexico, with officials demanding that the U.S. government respect their sovereignty, but also forcing the Mexican government to respond. This week, hundreds of additional Mexican security forces were deployed to Matamoros, the border city where the attack on the four Americans unfolded.

That kind of outsize attention is precisely what criminal groups want to avoid, and they have largely left American citizens alone ever since the 1985 abduction, torture and slaying of Enrique Camarena, a D.E.A. agent, who had disrupted cartel operations at the time and drew their bloody ire.

Mr. Camarena’s mutilated body was found wrapped in plastic bags on a ranch in western Mexico, his hands and feet bound and his face unrecognizable after multiple blows with a blunt object.

In its quest for justice, the D.E.A. launched Operation Legend, one of the largest homicide investigations undertaken by the agency, which revealed that the Mexican authorities had covered up Mr. Camarena’s murder and destroyed valuable evidence. The operation led to the arrest of cartel members and forced others into hiding.

The message was clear: going after American law enforcement agents would have far-reaching consequences for criminals and their accomplices in the Mexican government.

Cartels eventually learned that even mistakenly killing U.S. citizens could be costly.

In 2019, an organized crime group opened fire on Americans and Mexicans who were driving through the northern state of Sonora, killing three women and six children, part of a Mormon group that lived in Mexico. Some of the victims were burned alive in their cars, about 70 miles south of the U.S. border.

In the aftermath, several people were arrested, including a Mexican police chief believed to be protecting local criminal groups. The Mexican government claimed the deadly attack could have been a case of mistaken identity and related to a conflict between two criminal groups vying for control.



This week, the Mexican authorities were said to be considering a similar explanation for the kidnapping and slaying of the Americans in Matamoros, investigating whether it was another case of mistaken identity.

Those who live in Matamoros, which is part of the state of Tamaulipas and sits across the Rio Grande from the southernmost tip of Texas, endure the daily eruption of violence that consumes life here, ever since criminal organizations began consolidating control of the city.

What happened to the Americans is what they confront every day, Matamoros residents said, while dropping their children off at school, buying groceries or driving to work.

But what made this case different, they said in sorrow and anger, was the immense attention and pursuit of justice it received because of the victims’ nationalities.

“Who is talking about the woman who died here? No one,” said Alberto Salinas, referring to the Mexican who was shot and killed during the attack. Mr. Salinas owns a home next to where the attack occurred, but was elsewhere at the time.

Tamaulipas is generally dominated by the Gulf cartel, one of the oldest criminal organizations in Mexico, but is carved up among different factions of criminal groups. Even if the factions all belong to the same overarching group, they are not always allied.

Local leaders are generally vigilant about who might be encroaching onto their territory. The Scorpions group, which claimed to have written the letter, originated as a special force that guarded a previous Gulf cartel leader, said Jesús Pérez Caballero, a security expert and professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Matamoros.

While Mexicans have often found letters from cartels accompanying corpses, the note left behind this week was rarer because the five men who were found with it were left alive.

Criminal organizations do police their own members, experts said, particularly if they draw too much attention to the groups’ activities.

Leaving the men alive could have been aimed at ensuring that they would give statements to investigators supporting the narrative that the cartel did not order the assault. Lower level members of such groups sometimes do act on their own, though it’s unclear if that’s what actually happened in this case.

“Many times the hit men try to show their merit to people with more power, and they go it alone and if it works out, it works out,” Mr. Pérez Caballero said. “And if it goes wrong, well, it goes wrong.”

And somehow I still don't feel safe crossing into the Southern border.

[Eternally Solo]

A SUSPECTED Mexican cartel fighter has written a chilling note apologizing for the horror abduction which left two Americans and one local woman dead.

The bizarre handwritten note condemns the attack which saw five Americans seized from their vehicle in the northern Mexican border city of Matamoros.

In the letter obtained by law officials, the writer, purporting to be from the Scorpions faction of the Gulf drugs cartel allegedly responsible for the abduction, apologises to the four kidnapped Americans and their families.

The letter also says sorry to the Mexican woman caught in the crossfire, as well as the residents of Matamoros, who were trapped in their homes amid the deadly gang violence.

In the letter, the author slams fellow cartel members for the violence and vows to hand over those responsible to the authorities.

The letter reads: "We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline."

It adds that the cartel gunmen who opened fire had broken the criminal organization's "rules", which include: "Respecting the life and well-being of the innocent."

In the letter, the Scorpions group begs the "American families and people in Matamoros for forgiveness".

The letter was accompanied by a horrifying image showing five cartel men sitting on the sidewalk with their hands bound behind their backs.

Officials say the men are badly beaten but alive.

A source told Vice News: "The same people took the photos of the five men and the banner, and sent them to police.

"They also called the emergency number to alert authorities of the message they left downtown."

It hasn't yet been determined whether the letter is genuine, but Mexico's drug cartels have been known to try and issue PR statements to smooth over relations with locals after innocent people get caught up in their violence.

Cops believe the five Americans were caught up by mistake in a gunfight between warring cartels in Matamoros, which is on the Mexican side of the border from the Texas city of Brownsville.

The group had rented a minivan in South Carolina on Thursday and drove down to south Texas, according to pal Cheryl Orange, who did not cross over into Mexico with them.

She stayed behind in a Brownsville motel, and rang cops on Friday when her friends hadn't returned, after crossing the border at around 8am.

Cheryl said that her three friends were supposed to be back in 15 minutes after dropping off their companion, Latavia McGee, at a cosmetic surgery clinic.

She hadn't travelled with them because she hadn't brought identification.

Mexican authorities say cartel gunmen opened fire on them shortly after they crossed into Matamoros, and that they were kidnapped after crashing their van.

[hughjardon67]

They sure don't look "badly beaten" to me.