MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
Recently watched The Act of Killing which covered the 1965 Indonesian Massacres and should bring up that the same death squads that were used by the anti-communist military were made up of criminals, and the paramilitary organization that they collectively formed is today actively entrenched in organized crime.