Today, as the Jalisco Cartel attacks Mexico, it’s worth remembering that Paul Campo, a DEA agent for 15 years, and Robert Sensi, a CIA agent, were arrested in December for a $12 million money laundering and arms dealing operation for the cartel.

The DEA and CIA agents agreed to exchange payments for 220 kilos of cocaine and to obtain weapons, military equipment, and explosive drones for the Jalisco Cartel.

The only ones interested in the instability in Mexico are Trump and the US, to justify intervention in the country against drug trafficking… which they themselves finance and arm.

Drug trafficking is one of the biggest businesses imperialism uses to finance itself, as was proven in its war against Nicaragua and with the Contras, selling crack in their own neighborhoods… and it never stopped.

Look at the state-of-the-art military equipment this Jalisco cartel has; you don’t have to be a genius to figure out where they got it:

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https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2025756740579373056/vid/avc1/352x640/gR63V7llHo6cligr.mp4

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2025753549385211904/vid/avc1/1920x1080/Eif7AcrmCYQYti72.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2025753886888210924#m

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      8 days ago

      Granted, a lot of that looks like silly tacticool gear you can get at any airsoft shop or hell, Aliexpress. There are a few pictures with writeups of the pictured CJNG cartel’s gear, and a lot of their kits are hilariously poorly put together with random gear strapped to strange places to look cool.

      Like for example, this video takes place at night, and all the morons are wearing shaded ski googles that you can see basically zero out of.

      The cell phone jammer is also commercially available, and entirely useless since they can’t access the jammers by themselves since moving jammers require constant tuning.

      His pistol holster is in a horrible position that makes accessing the sidearm essentially impossible and extremely disadvantageous. That also betrays that either this guy never plans on using his pistol, or more likely, has zero police or military training.

      Also despite their rifles, none of them are wearing magazine pouches??? What is going on with the gear strapped to the lead guy’s thigh too? Nice radio placement, good luck ever laying down or grabbing the radio quickly, and that knife is going to poke him in the thigh or balls is he tries to crouch.

      The CIA is 100% arming cartels, but these are larping morons trying to look intimidating and cool with random commercial tacticool junk.

        • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          8 days ago

          Literally anywhere online. You can buy a whole lot of stupid, illegal stuff online. Since selling jammers is illegal in the US, a lot of companies manufacture and ship from places like the Philippines, with the only big hurdle being getting the package past customs. Are sites like this honeypots? Maybe? Are some of them scams? Absolutely.

          https://www.thesignaljammer.com/

          https://www.jammer-store.com/

          Here’s a Chinese company offering jammers.

          https://www.action-intl.com/jammer/281.html

          Here’s a new piece on a series of burglaries in New Jersey where a burglar used a signal jammer to mess with home security systems.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0q8K54lD8

          • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
            6·
            8 days ago

            with the only big hurdle being getting the package past customs.

            And you hit the most important part here. I am trying to find it in my normal civilian channels and there is simply no way to buy a signal jammer.

            Importing stuff from abroad also has its level of complexity. Unless you are a rich person with contacts in customs like Rocha Cantu, the common folk have no access to stuff like this.

            The rules for the rich are very different from the normal folks and that includes access to stuff like this.

            • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
              42·
              8 days ago

              Do you know how often drugs, weapons, and contraband slip through package customs?

              You cannot legally acquire a signal jammer anywhere, there are no “civilian” channels, but nothing is stopping you from paying through criminal channels, and having a shady business ship one to you.

              Oftentimes illegal electronics equipment are shipped disassembled and disguised with other legitimate parts. Smuggling is a massively lucrative endeavor, and something tells me that a cartel wouldn’t have any issue securing a shipment from an producer in China or Africa.

      • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        8 days ago

        I remember seeing this picture years ago and people saying it was a whole lot of airsoft gear.

        Not that I’m sure their aren’t cartels out there with legit gear funded by CIA, but that this picture is not.

        • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
          34·
          8 days ago

          My favorite part is that this goofball brigade didn’t even bother removing the sticker with the 511 logo off of their goggles. Literally a small tacticool company that you can buy those googles from online, and those nerds put this stuff on right out of the box for a cool photo-op lmao

          A Mexican army squad would turn these guys into red mist without taking any casualties lol

          • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
            81·
            8 days ago

            A Mexican army squad would turn these guys into red mist without taking any casualties lol

            25 military personnel died during the latest fight against “this goofball brigade”. They were even capable of hitting helicopters:

            If you are trying to underestimate this trash, please don’t. Their violence is real and we are already living it now.

            • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
              16·
              8 days ago

              If you give a troop of orangutans rifles they could inflict causalities. Just because the goofball brigade are idiots with guns doesn’t make them harmless. I’m laughing at them being larping losers who can’t even hold a rifle correctly.

              25 military personnel were also killed fighting the entirety of the CJNG, who are not all kitted out in tacticool gear and are fighting a guerrilla war. These are CJNG “”““special””“” forces units used for photo-ops.

              I don’t see why hitting helicopters is a special feat either. Helicopters are usually low flying and well within the range of even small caliber hunting rifles. If you spray enough bullets into the air, one is bound to connect.

              • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
                9·
                8 days ago

                If you give a troop of orangutans rifles they could inflict causalities.
                I don’t see why hitting helicopters is a special feat either.

                Unless you have training and the right equipment, none of these are easy feats that any normal person can casually do. I find the way that you are trying to picture them as orangutans/goofballs/larpers is heavily misleading to people here. These scumbags are not your regular untrained criminal that was given a gun to shoot people. They are heavily trained as described by this source:

                • Another development is an increase in Colombian mercenaries, especially in Michoacán. Both CJNG and the United Cartels prioritize recruiting Colombian fighters, with special emphasis on those with recent combat experience in Ukraine fighting against Russian forces. By recruiting fighters with extensive combat experience, lessons learned from the Russian-Ukraine War are making their way into Mexico.

                • In addition, recent reporting shows that the Mexican Center of National Intelligence and the Ukrainian Security Servies are actively investigating the deployment of Mexican cartel operatives to Ukraine Foreign Legion to receive training on the use of drones in an offensive capacity, which are then used in Mexico. With the arrival of such experienced fighters, both CJNG and the United Cartel have expanded the use of drones and continue to develop drone programs. This was demonstrated by an attack on June 9 in which CJNG utilized drones to drop various explosive devices on the municipal building of Juárez, Michoacán. These types of attacks will likely become the norm.