Reply to: What do people here think of Mexican drug cartels?

[Mich the Tester]

Just because BP chosen to oursource essential work (why?) does not mean they've outsourced ultimate responsibility for the project.

BP is guilty and will pay up but it has the right to sue sub-contractors to recover costs.

Why? Possibly because to get licenses to drill in that area you have to get some percentage of the work done by local (ie American) companies.

[AtW]

Is it the same one where people drive stupid SUVs that can't even manage 10mpg and then blame the Brits for oil spills after the Brits hired an American company to pump out the oil from under the Gulf of Mexico, before sending it to an American refinery to be made into petrol for their stupid great tulipty cars?

Just because BP chosen to oursource essential work (why?) does not mean they've outsourced ultimate responsibility for the project.

BP is guilty and will pay up but it has the right to sue sub-contractors to recover costs.

[Mich the Tester]

Um, it's on the tip of my tongue... it's that place a bit north of Mexico.

The one where people work stupid hours every day so they don't take time to spend bringing up their kids and then wonder why the very same kids blow money on drugs from Mexico? The one that then blames Mexicans for all the problems?

Is it the same one where people drive stupid SUVs that can't even manage 10mpg and then blame the Brits for oil spills after the Brits hired an American company to pump out the oil from under the Gulf of Mexico, before sending it to an American refinery to be made into petrol for their stupid great tulipty cars?

The United States of Blame Somebody Else?

[2BIT]

'This will happen to all internet snitches': Couple tortured to death as a warning to bloggers criticising Mexican drug cartels | Mail Online

I don't really have an opinion on them myself.

I've heard they tend to better at Spanish than the Slavic/Arab Cartels but that could just be a myth...

[PAH]

Um, it's on the tip of my tongue... it's that place a bit north of Mexico.

"America", as the yanks like to call themselves.

[PAH]

They probably don't have internet there to read blogs...

Too busy making all those poppies for Remembrance day.

[AtW]

That stumps the afghans too.

They probably don't have internet there to read blogs...

[PAH]

Yep, but I also wonder where all the money comes from in the Mexican drug trade.

That stumps the afghans too.

[Mich the Tester]

I pity the Americans who have to put up with living next door to it.

Yep, but I also wonder where all the money comes from in the Mexican drug trade.

[AtW]

Mexican drug cartels are not worth losing your head over.

[PAH]

I pity the Americans who have to put up with living next door to it.

Not to mention all the tourists expecting jolly sombreros and tequila.

Beheading is not optional by the looks of things.

[DimPrawn]

Don't worry Dim, think you'll be OK.

[Clippy]

'This will happen to all internet snitches': Couple tortured to death as a warning to bloggers criticising Mexican drug cartels | Mail Online

I don't really have an opinion on them myself.

Next to the battered bodies was a sign reading: ‘This is going to happen to all those posting funny things on the internet, You better (expletive) pay attention. I’m about to get you.’

Don't worry Dim, think you'll be OK.

[xoggoth]

I pity the Americans who have to put up with living next door to it.

[Paddy]

This didn't help

Operation Fast and Furious - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Fast and Furious: During the operation, the sale of at least 2,000 guns were facilitated by ATF knowing most would be trafficked to Mexico. By June, 2011, the guns have been linked (through eTrace, ATF's electronic tracing program) to some 179 crime scenes in Mexico.