It appears that Mexican drug cartels may be upping the ante even more, adopting terror techniques not previously seen in the growing violence on the border.
A Hezbollah-like car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug cartels. This is more than an immigration problem.
Car bombs are a terrorist specialty and not a drug cartel modus operandi. The heavily armed cartels are more into shootings and kidnappings. So the car bomb that exploded Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, near a federal police headquarters, killing four, was either a change in tactics for the cartels or a sign of teaming up with a terrorist group, one of which could be Iran-linked Hezbollah.
Officials called it a well-planned trap using what may have been the first time that traffickers have used a car bomb since the start of a military-led offensive against drug cartels. It also may be the first indication of Hezbollah’s growing influence south of the border.
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What growing influence below the border. Look, if the cartels want to be more violent, they can seek help from Hizbollah, more lethal tactics in an exchange for economics to fund their cause in Lebanon and worldwide.
It’s simple tactics for money.