Cartel Bunkers and a Patrol Along The Mexico-Arizona Border
Snippet of Article: "...Wedged between rocks, I scan with my binoculars and notice a bunker complex built into the top of the opposite hill. I keep observing and see three men, wearing green fatigues, walking between each fighting position. All three are armed with AK-47s. That isn’t Afghanistan. It’s Mexico. My AR-15, and all the combat equipment I wore, feel heavy and cumbersome. My mouth is dry. The cat’s claw bushes keep ripping...A week earlier I received the grid coordinates for the location of the next AZBR operation; as it turns out, it’s a well-known drug-smuggling route. ...We thought of the guys with AK-47s as “scouts” but when we returned to base that evening, after removing our gear and grabbing chow, Foley informed me: “Those weren’t scouts. Those were sicarios; straight-up gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel.” “owns” that smuggling route into the country. “Why are they in bunkers out here? Don’t they own this territory?” I ask. “They own the territory, but these are factions of the same cartel vying for this section of the border. The more they own, the more money they make,” he matter-of-factly replies after taking a drag off his cigarette."
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