Comments on: Mexican Drug War Dispatch: Viva La Narco Counterculture Revolución

By: EL Compa Sicario

EL Compa Sicario — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:01:27 +0000

vete a la verga puro sinaloa compa
compa r-r6 te vo a matar

By: Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:56:17 +0000

Thank goodness I’m out of jail now since they took that picture of me and my freinds

By: mx?

mx? — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:07 +0000

hey sender you make some very good points.
Well see what happens in 2012 or maybe in 2010 for the celebration of the hundred years of la revolucion with the threaths of an awakening guerrilla in…you guessed it, the state of Guerrero. Its in the name, I guess.

By: Noah

Noah — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:18:52 +0000

keep it up

– Faithful Reader

By: Jyp

Jyp — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:30:58 +0000

Hey Ponch, this is great shit, man. Fits right in here, on the best fucking mag in America. All you guys, you rock.

By: Sender

Sender — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:31:38 +0000

Interesting war. As such it is for control of territory and it involves a multiple tier liquid alliances stance. As the attrition rate is getting high, even for Narco Standards it can be seen that truces have been signed amongst the most significant players. The army walking into one of Chapo’s 2.4 km2 compound is one of those interesting moments where one of the most firm alliances of this war has been weakened. The government actually touching Chapo’s interests??? well, maybe not. Nobody was captured there so who knows what really happened. Maybe since satellites could see the little city in the sirra churning hundreds of kilos of crystal meth a day it became too embarrasing…
Calderón’s adventure begins now when there are no true victories to claim. Drugs, any kind, can be had in the street at any time so here’s when the paradox of irregular wars begins to bite: Defining victory; Mission creep in an age of reduced budgets; water rationing in México city; no border to run to (nobody’s hiring up north) colapsing oil exports (That last one is the most frightening of all and it is not a scenario, It’s a solid bet for end of 2010). Calderón used to boast he enjoyed exercizing power…
It’s pretty certain he isn’t so comfy now, confronting the possibility that there will be a very hostile takeover of the presidency at his mandate’s end…

By: badnewswade

badnewswade — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:20:07 +0000

The Google of organised crime… Like it!

Keep ‘em coming, dude!

By: mx?

mx? — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:15:47 +0000

Well cuppy you could always start as a sicario and work your way up, I hear there are a lot of vacant spots in Cd.Juarez/El Paso, with the thousands death last year in the city alone and all.

Hey, You know Im jokin around, right?, DONT GO TO CHIHUAHA, I say again, DO-NOT-GO-TO-CHI-HUA-HUA, that place is a fucking warzone, specially the border.

By: mx?

mx? — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:04:40 +0000

Hey Eye, who has presence in España, Golfo o Sinaloa? or do “they outsource” to local gangs?

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:08:25 +0000

I too always look forward to your column. Thanks for the writing.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:52:12 +0000

I love the photograph on page 2 – BATISTA!

By: aleke

aleke — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:35:49 +0000

I don’t usually comment, but I damn well make sure to read your columns. Keep writing! Maybe find some speed, it seems to do a load of good for the Exile.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:46:33 +0000

The American people must like being Mexico’s bitch. They don’t want to elect some officials who will really enforce the border and keep all that ugliness and craziness down south then they must just like the abuse. It’s just like an S&M homosexual relationship and white American trash like being the bottom.

By: Cuppy

Cuppy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:00:31 +0000

Hey do you know if the cartels have any internships open. I can help them make powder instead of tar heroin. I’m sure they already know how but I wonder why they don’t do it? anyone know?

By: mx?

mx? — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:36:21 +0000

the zetas are more like the death squads you invented during your central american adventures, the counterculture reference refers more to the wide acceptance and/or tolerance of the community, but the narcos have no interest in replacing the state.

Why? so we can convert to a true, fully-fledged narco-state and give the Americans a reason to invade AGAIN? NO, Thank you very mucho but no, but we would like our land back seeing as you stole it and all, or at least give us some casinos like you did with the indians, motherfuckers! native-americans I mean.
Or is the drug trade our “indian casinos”? hmm, maybe…

By: Thuggin

Thuggin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:39:38 +0000

this is some of the greatest writing I’ve read. your comparing the 70s “counter culture” to the zetas is interesting and thought provoking as fuck. and you’re probably high when you wrote it… all hail to pancho the great!

By: Eye

Eye — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:59:59 +0000

I also read every column from Pancho. It’s an interesting perspective of the “Mexican Drug War”, and more accurate than the habitual shit that spits the television…

Saludos desde España.

By: J Dubb

J Dubb — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:09:24 +0000

The beginning of this column reads just like a Jim Anchower article from the Onion.

“Hola, amigos. How’s it going with you? I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya.”

By: EyesWideOpen

EyesWideOpen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:30:23 +0000

this is the first of your columns that I’ve read. It will not be the last. And I will tell my friends.

Keep writing, please!

By: whaaat

whaaat — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:33:04 +0000

Hey, I like reading your columns too. Please keep the stories coming, you’ve got a level-headed angle on things that’s hard to find elsewhere.