MS-13 and Los Zetas Drug cartels stealing millions of barrels of oil and taking over control of the drug trade.

Los Zetas vs Ms 13 from lastcombat.com

Los Zetas is an armed criminal gang that operates as a hired army for the Gulf Cartel. The group is believed to be led by Heriberto “The Executioner” Castanon.

Los Zetas, the Ninth Cartel

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |  Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs

In only 13 years Los Zetas, a group that was formed by former military soldiers and army deserters, went from being an appendage of the Gulf cartel to becoming an autonomous organization. 

Since last January the DEA considers Los Zetas to be the ninth cartel in Mexico. Now, the organization headed by “Hidalguense” Heriberto Lazcano is the best armed and has influence in over 20 states across the country.

Mexico - At year end in 1997, the armed group Los Zetas burst into the public arena as a protective shield of the Gulf cartel and its leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen.

Thirteen years later, with reinforcements and diversification of their criminal activities, the group named the “armed forces of the narco” is a cartel that is actively in a struggle for control of a dozen Mexican states. 

Mara Salvatrucha refers to large gangs in Central America and the United States. The gang names are commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13, and are composed mostly of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and other Central Americans. The Mara Salvatrucha gangs have cliques, or factions, located throughout the United States and Latin America.

MS-13 & the Drug War

People are fascinated with MS-13, the same way they are fascinated with the Los Zetas. The level of brutality they bring to gang and cartel wars is tremendous. Tracking these two groups is somewhat difficult, and often facts are disregarded in exchange for jaw dropping headlines.

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MS-13 is being sought as a valuable asset to major drug cartels. The large network MS-13 has provides a perfect landscape for distributing drugs. The Los Zetas were the first major drug cartel to make a major push into Guatemala. In doing so they not only brought their own members down south, they also recruited large numbers of Guatemalans to work for them. Guatemala and El Salvador governments have both made public statements, saying that MS-13 gang members are being recruited and co-opted into the Los Zetas.

Street gangs in general are a must for drug cartels. With the high level of casualties in Mexico, street level gangs members are used as disposable tools that work for low pay and drugs. They are often low risk, as the level of intelligence they are given about operations are very limited. The death or arrest of a group of street level gangs members has no impact on cartel operations.

Oil exports represent Mexico’s largest source of revenue, just ahead of tourism. However, just as the cartels now threaten the country’s tourism industry with daily shootouts and beheadings, Mexico’s oil industry is being threatened by the powerful drug cartels as well.

On Tuesday, InSightCrime.org reported that since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006, “crude oil is being stolen on a wide scale, and the groups behind the theft are not small-scale gangs or businessmen gaming the system, but rather criminal networks like the Zetas.Furthermore, instead of reselling the oil at Pemex stations, the criminal groups are exploiting their international reach to sell it on to US refineries.”

To avoid detection, the thieves often inject water into the pipelines to account for any drop in pressure.

It is also dangerous work.

In December 2010, a pipeline exploded in central Mexico when thieves drilled into it. The explosion killed more than two dozen people.

Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel are reportedly the biggest offenders in this very lucrative racket. More at source

. . . new evidence that two of region’s deadliest gangs are joining forces

GUATEMALA CITY — — Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion.Now, Guatemalan authorities say, they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Maras and another of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America — a deal with the potential to further undermine that U.S.-backed effort to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in the region.

 The Zetas, formed more than a decade ago by defectors from Mexico’s army special forces, have already joined forces with local drug kingpins in the Guatemalan countryside, and recruited turncoat members of Guatemala’s military special forces for operations in Mexico and Guatemala, officials in the two neighboring countries have said.There is some evidence that other Mexican cartels have paid Central American street gangs to sell drugs for them. And Salvadoran authorities said they are aware of informal links between the Zetas and local cliques of the Mara Salvatrucha paid to sell individual shipments of drugs, but officials have seen no proof of any formal deal between the gangs.But a formal, durable alliance with the Maras could bring the Zetas thousands of new foot soldiers, extending the cartel’s reach into the cities of Guatemala, and, potentially, other countries in Central America where the Maras maintain a grip on urban slums.

Just one more way China is destroying North America via The Great Lakes

Strange ? They can put this to plants and animals ...... But come invasive human scum they do not say a word. ( please read comments left by readers )thank you battleskin88


The aliens have landed and their favourite province is Ontario.

They may be tough to recognize because they aren't green with beady eyes and bulbous heads, but a Government of Ontario planrecommends drastic measures for dealing with the large number of invasive species.

"The ecological effects of invasive species are often irreversible and, once established, they are extremely difficult and costly to control and eradicate," reads the Ontario Invasive Species Strategic Plan.

Ontario is already part of a national plan called "An Invasive Alien Species Strategy for Canada", which was approved in 2004.

However, with 1,017 non-native vascular plants, Ontario has almost the same number as the rest of Canada at 1,384 species. The plan states Ontario is a haven for invading species due to the nature of its society, economy and geographic location.

The geographic location being key because it is at the end of the St. Lawrence Seaway and has multiple land and water entry points with the Great Lakes. Canada's most populous province also leads in the invading freshwater fish category with 26 known species.

While there is no analysis of the net cost in Ontario, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said in 2009 the environmental affects and economic loss exceed $100 billion in the U.S. alone.

Toronto will spend $37 million over five years to cut and replace trees killed by the emerald ash borer and zebra mussels have cost Ontario Power producers $6.4 million per year. The Ontario Biodiversity Council also shows the aliens are affecting 20 per cent of the native species.

The report, which was posted this week on the province's environmental registry, recommends developing "rapid response protocols which respond to new infestations with an understanding of the social, economic and environmental impacts."

In addition to coordinating with all levels of government to design the plan of attack, it recommends giving the agencies the tools to, if necessary, eradicate the species quickly. more at Daily Brew

Just one more way China is destroying North America 

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kim Hoelmer stood beneath a tree in eastern China a year ago and studied its leaves.  

He scanned a section as sunlight passed through the foliage, revealing the backlit image of the first thing he was looking for — an egg mass laid by a brown marmorated stink bug.

Hoelmer pulled the leaf down for a closer inspection and spotted the second thing he had hoped to see — evidence that a particular parasitic wasp had been there, too.

Bingo.

The scientist collected the eggs and returned to his lab at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he hopes to turn the wasp into a weapon to stop the stink bug.

The invasive species was first identified in Allentown, Pa., in 1998, but researchers there think it had been around for at least a couple of years. It hit Ohio in 2007 and now is in 33 states, including every state east of the Mississippi River and along the Pacific coast.

The bug, they say, probably hitched a ride on containers from Asia, where it damages fruit and soybeans from China to Japan.

The emerald ash borer arrived in much the same manner from China and has left in its wake millions of dead trees.

Adult Female brown marmorated stink bug

Where it is found, the brown marmorated stink bug, which has no natural predators here, outnumbers native stink bugs 10 to 1. And they eat at least 100 different plants. Last summer, the stink bug damaged 20 percent to 100 percent of the fruit crops in some areas of Maryland and West Virginia, according to government entomologists.

Trissolcus

In Asia, however, the bug is kept in check by a wasp in the genus Trissolcus. This wasp preys exclusively on the eggs of the brown marmorated stink bug. It simply injects its own eggs into the stink bugs' eggs. Within days, wasp larva hatch and feed on the developing stink bugs.

Nasty and effective.

Hoelmer is studying the Trissolcus in hopes of one day setting the wasp loose on the brown marmorated stink bug in the U.S.
"Our approach is to introduce a permanent solution," said Hoelmer, who works in the agency's Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit.
Right now, it might be the only thing that works. Commonly used pesticides have had little effect on the bug.