John Sullivan
John Sullivan
Career police officer and lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Senior Fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro. Researcher on transnational organized crime and its impact on sovereignty.
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Barbarization in Mexico Punctuated by Hyper Violence
Barbarization in Mexico Punctuated by Hyper Violence
Credit: http://kasamaproject.org The Mexico drug war has embroiled that country in internal conflict punctuated by hyper-violence, corruption and impunity. The battle for primacy among drug cartels for control of the plazas (lucrative transshipment nodes and routes) has resulted in a seemingly never-ending barrage of violence. Beheadings, dismemberment, massacres, and mass graves (narcofosas) punctuate the state of insecurity. While media outlets continue to report 50,000 killed, the numbers ar...
25 Sep, 2012
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7 min read