Mexico is in a losing battle with drug cartels whose escalating violence is providing cover for Marxist insurgents to become active. The newest cartel offensive raises troubling questions about the ability of the Mexican government to provide safety and security for its citizens, and heralds a future of bloody anarchy if officials cannot regain control of the streets. From WaPo:

MEXICO CITY, May 8 — Gunmen assassinated Mexico’s national police chief Thursday, blasting him with nine bullets outside his home in the capital and dealing a significant setback to the government’s campaign against drug cartels.

Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, the public face of Mexico’s offensive against drug cartels, became the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be killed since the launch of the effort 17 months ago. The assassination could give new confidence to drug cartels blamed for 6,000 killings in the past 2 1/2 years, and embolden other anti-government groups in this violence-plagued nation.

“This could have a snowball effect, even leading to the risk of ungovernability,” Luís Astorga, a Mexico City-based sociologist and drug expert, said in an interview. “It indicates terrible things, a level of weakness in our institutions — they can’t even protect themselves.”

Mexico’s drug and violence problem now engulfs the entire country, swamping cities along the U.S.-Mexico border and rugged drug cartel redoubts in the western mountains, and piercing into the heart of national power in Mexico City. The capital, once relatively immune to such brazen drug killings, has been the scene of four assassinations of high-ranking federal police officials in about a week.

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The capital is also on edge because the once-dormant People’s Revolutionary Army, a rebel group that bombed oil pipelines last year, has been demanding the release of several jailed members. The rebels could see the killing of Millán Gómez as a sign of weakness, Astorga, the sociologist, said.

Federal police forces are stretched thin across Mexico, chasing an ever-growing number of suspects in drug killings. Last week, for instance, at least 17 people were killed in an attack on a ranch in the western state of Guerrero. This week, the military was engaged in a major battle with suspected cartel assassins in the central state of Zacatecas. That incident left three dead.

Fingers are pointing at the powerful Sinaloa Cartel which has its own military wing and has been known to contract MS-13 and Mexican Mafia to kill rivals. The Sinaloa Cartel has pushed well into the American southwest and has increasingly shown a willingness to engage Mexican forces and rival cartels in open firefights on the streets.

Mexico’s inability to maintain order has direct implications for American security, and this violence will spill into our country eventually. It’s only a matter of time.

The communist leader of Bolivia has been rebuked by the people of Santa Cruz whose wealth and possessions he intends to confiscate and redistribute to his fellow tribesmen. This racist policy was challenged by the people of Santa Cruz who voted to become autonomous rather than become slaves to Morales hate cult.

In response, Morales’ “Red Poncho” militia had tried to stop the voting process, and are threatening violence. Riots have broken out and foreign governments are warning tourists to stay indoors.

The people of Santa Cruz are celebrating now, but I hope they’re armed because soon they’ll be fighting for their lives against Evo Morales’ private army. Even AlJazeera are spooked by these guys:

Congratulations Santa Cruz. Be careful out there.

Violence against Americans in Mexico is exploding and tourism is down as a result. For those of you who think Americans are over reacting check out this horror story from a local newscast, and more importantly the Mexican official at the end of the story brushing off the brutalization and sexual assault of American tourists a if it’s not a big deal:

If you’re looking for a safe place to vacation why not come to the lovely Greenville S.C. area? Good restaurants, nice hotels and a crime rate so low the local cops sit around all day wishing for a speeder.

It seems Marxist shill for Chavez Evo Morales has channeled his inner National Socialist, because reports from Bolivia are coming in suggesting that certain people’s newly issued national I.D. cards are stamped with a Star of David. And by certain people we mean mostly European descended residents of the rebellious Santa Cruz area.

From The Washington Times:

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — The appearance of a Star of David on new national identity cards has alarmed opponents of President Evo Morales, who recall how the symbol was used to brand Jews in Nazi Germany.

Tiny six-pointed stars within a tight circle are printed on the back side of some, but not all, recently issued picture IDs in the Santa Cruz region. The mark was present on three cards seen by The Washington Times.

“It raises suspicions that the government is identifying individuals or segments of the population along racial, religious or ideological lines” said Carlos Klinsky, a member of Bolivia’s parliament from Santa Cruz, where the new ID cards have recently appeared.

What puzzles Mr. Klinsky and others is that the marked ID cards do not appear to target people who are Jewish or have Jewish ancestry.

Though the symbol is appearing on the cards of many Jews. Francisco Hubsch, honorary consul to Santa Cruz from Israel has said the cards are “circulating too widely for it to involve an anti-Semitic persecution” but there is evidence that the stars are being used as a symbol to identify political opponents of European ethnicity:

Mr. Klinsky has sent letters to national authorities, requesting explanations for the symbol, which began appearing last year on identity cards issued in the Santa Cruz area as part of a newly computerized national identification system. He has yet to receive a reply.

Santa Cruz is the center of Bolivia’s eastern lowlands, the economic heart of Bolivia and the base of widespread opposition to moves by Mr. Morales to nationalize key industries and redistribute wealth to his supporters in the western Andean highlands.

Mr. Klinsky attempted to hold public hearings on the new identity cards, but the police refused to testify.

If the symbol is as innocent as authorities claim, why the stonewalling? And why the Star of David at all? Morales’ government have several unlikely explanations but in my own thinking this is just another expression of leftist anti-Semitic conspiracy mongering. The opponents to Evo Morales’ Cuban and Venezuelan backed Communist government mysteriously get issued ID cards which imply they’re Jewish, as in they’re secret Jews and we’re to believe that there’s nothing untoward going on?

The hard left is ripe with conspiracy theories that claim Jews secretly direct every movement opposed to their totalitarianism. It is partly the inherent intolerance of Marxism that drives such backwardness, but the alliance of the left with Militant Islam is also a factor in the belief in a Z.O.G. style conspiracy against the Revolution. Iran’s influence on Latin America is likely responsible for this sort of bizarre and dangerous labeling:

But Mr. Klinsky, the opposition lawmaker, didn’t rule out an ethnic connection. He said he fears the “fundamentalist influence” of Iran on Bolivia’s government, a reference to an influx of Iranian officials connected to numerous joint ventures to develop Bolivia’s energy reserves.

Moreover, growing tensions between the Santa Cruz region and the central government have taken on an ethnic dimension, pitting a poor and mostly Indian majority in Bolivia’s Andean highlands against European descendants in the energy-rich eastern lowlands.

Mr. Morales is of Indian background.

Lawyer Hugo Acha said it would be highly irregular for police officials to place personal markings on identity documents.

He thinks that the symbols correspond to a “code” for classifying the population, devised by Cuban and Venezuelan advisers, who he thinks are running the new registration system.

“It’s a way of marginalizing us” said opposition newspaper editor Centa Reck when she saw the star on her recently renewed identity document.

The altered IDs have appeared at a time of growing tensions in the run-up to a May 4 vote on whether the Santa Cruz region should declare itself an autonomous zone — effectively breaking most ties with the capital, La Paz.

Officials in Mr. Morales’ government have called the referendum treasonous.

Soon we’ll be watching a genocide, but instead of just Jewish people the Nazi-esque bloc of Marxist countries and their Iranian allies will be killing all Whites Latin Americans. Will world will sit by and watch while another Holocaust happens right in America’s backyard? I say never again!

Mabblog has a post on the most recent troubles in Santa Cruz. The anti-Semitism of Chavez is well documented, as is his government’s love of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Related: Democrats just ensured Columbia’s demise at the hands of the new Soviet Bloc forming on our southern border. They used lies to explain their siding with Marxist terror groups but we know the real reason don’t we?

Speaking of final solutions, guess which presidential candidate’s web site hosted a wildly bigoted post about Jews “betraying” the candidate and threatening Jews world wide with violence if American Jews didn’t vote the right way?

That’s right, Barack “politics of hope” Obama. In this case the hope is that Jews who don’t support Obama are raped and murdered.

They scrubbed it clean now, but luckily there are screen shots and transcriptions and all the little technological innovations that make it severely stupid to allow White liberals, who are all racists, to post their unedited thought on a site bearing your name.

Thanks brother, thanks for doing your best to make all us Bi-racial people look good. Atlas dissects.

It looks like the leftist government of Brazil has chosen sides in the impending conflict in Latin America. Swimming Against the Red Tide is reporting that Brazil has secretly flown over 31 tons of firearms into Venezuela. His post links to a report by World Check which is questioning why a country with a very well equipped army and police would need another 50-70,000 firearms. Their answer is ominous:

In a country where the armed forces and the police are already well-equipped, these weapons can only have one intended use; to arm civilian supporters of the current regime, who will use it upon the opposition in an expected violent confrontation that could degenerate into a civil war.

Scary stuff.
h/t Babalu Blog