[GGReporter]

When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing their guns and sending the soldiers diving for cover in an hour-long standoff.Confrontations like that are happening with increasing frequency in Mexico's wealthiest city as soldiers fight corrupt police officers helping drug cartels â?? in addition to taking on the drug dealers themselves.

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[texnmidwest]

Been that way for a long time. Police in Mexico are paid very little.

[Cyrano]

Some of us might remember that the Medellin cartel came very close to taking over Colombia a few years ago. They used exactly the same techniques the narcotraficantes are using. The Mexican government is countering the same way that the Colombian government did. What I question is whether the Mexican government has the backbone to make it work.

[nathangdad]

born and raised in the West Texas oilfields not all that terribly far from Mexico this is nothing new.

Police, and especially the police of Juarez have historically done the bidding of PRI politicians/lawyers with money/criminals with cash and so on and on and on . . .

It was just a way of life when I was young and obviously continues as a way of life.

The police and those who pay them know the military of Mexico is in a situation not all that different from America in certain foreign adventures. The military will stay for so long then the political will and expense to have them there will fade. It is just a waiting game.

What the criminals cannot afford to do is to make the situation so bad the population actually does revolt and demand a cleanup. This is the tipping point.

[G. Green]

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