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WATCH: Armed Mexican Drug Cartel Convoy Occupies Mountain Highway with Police Nowhere in Sightby psmith, August 06, 2018, 04:54pm, (Issue #1031)In what looks to be a clear cartel show of force, a video circulating this past week on Mexican social media shows a convoy of dozens of vehicles and scores of uniformed and heavily-armed men stopped on a mountain highway in the state of Jalisco. They appear totally unconcerned about presenting an armed challenge to the Mexican state, and with good reason -- there is no sign of a police or military presence anywhere.The video, which first popped up on messaging services such as WhatsApp before being picked up by Mexican news web sites, appears to show members of what is now arguably the most powerful drug cartel in the county, the CJNG (Jalisco New Generation Cartel). The CJNG first formed in 2009, but has risen to preeminence in the country's bloody cartel landscape in the wake of the capture and extradition to the United States of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the long-running Sinaloa Cartel, which has since splintered in his absence.In the video, the suspected cartel member who filmed the footage and a companion talk about the cartel and show other men wearing shirts bearing the CJNG initials. The scores of gunmen, many wearing military-style uniforms and helmets, others wearing pasamontañas (balaclavas), are relaxed and jovial as they casually stroll along the federal highway. Accordion-tinged music blares from car radios.Read more at: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/06/watch_armed_mexican_drug_cartel
