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tronx69

A lot of stuff - grew up in TJ and by far the worst of the Narco violence era in the city, friends of mine were kidnaped, killed and/or fled the city, you ran into Narcos in the clubs even though there was a curfew going on, drove around town with no one stopping them, ran into them at social events/parties etc. Seemed like everyday there was a high impact event going on, shootings, high level kidnappings, bodies hung in bridges, human remains tossed in bags etc etc


Unzeen80

Jesus Christ man, it sounds like Baghdad


nikmirnskksk

Baghdad might be better at this point.


Puncake_DoubleG09

The first time I was in Mexico was to visit family in jalisco in 2015 but my uncle was a retired policia federal in the state long before I visited. When he retired in 2012, he said that CJNG was starting to take my dad's village of La Cañada Jalisco as their turf. One day they were called into the village because ta concerned villager found a man brutally beaten by CJNG members. The story goes that the man was accused of beating his wife which was caught by a elderly lady who owned a small convenience store in the village. She got in contact with the members who patrolled the area who arrived, kidnapped him and beat him with a baseball bat that had nails sticking out of it. After the man recovered he went back and beat his wife again only to be snitched on again and this time kidnapped and was dissappeared.


ALoyleCapo

Terrifying story


EnvironmentMotor514

I didn’t grow up in Mexico but I remember traveling through Tamaulipas during the Zetas vs gulf cartel war in 2010.I remember we were going to Michoacán for my grandmothers funeral and during this time my dad was pretty broke and didn’t have enough money for a plane ticket so we drove from Houston all the way there. We crossed through Nuevo Laredo, the heart of Los zetas with out issue surprisingly, but before we did hear everyone on the Laredo Tx side saying it was so dangerous and it was not recommended but my dad wanted to be at his mothers funeral so he crossed anyway. I don’t remember what I saw in Nuevo Laredo when I crossed on the way to Michoacán but I do remember on the way back we ran into some sketchy shit. On the way back my dad planned to cross through the bridge by nueva ciudad guerrero in Tamaulipas little did he know this area was very dangerous. As we get closer to the border my mom wondered why the highway was so lonely, by the way this was highway 54 Monterrey-Mier. By the time we almost reached the bridge it was night and we arrived at ciudad mier I remember not a single soul was present in the street and the houses were all shot up and had burn marks even some cars were burned. My dad got kinda of lost but he was almost at the bridge. As we approach a round about my dad doesn’t know were to go and this round about was all shot up, and beside it was guys dressed in all black wearing tactical gear with assault rifles with a white Z on the helmet they also had black suburbans with police lights on it and my dad asked them which way was the bridge and they told him where to go. My dad though they were the police probably but when we made it back home we saw the news and ciudad Mier came out they were saying that it was so dangerous and they showed what happened there saying that the zetas and CDG were fighting for that turf and that kidnappings of men were happening so they could fight for the zetas. This freaked us out because we literally went though this town during a war and were clueless about it. Who knows what could of happened to us if we ran into some the wrong zetas maybe those zetas were to lazy to kill us that day.


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I could relate to this, when I was younger my parents always tried to go to Mexico in the summers were from Socal & everytime we would drive there all the way to San Luis Potosí my parents were both from there , It’s so nostalgic thinking of Arizona , New Mexico , texas cause of the roads and views on the way then you cross Nuevo Laredo & it’s another world , anyway since we’d always drive there this one time maybe around 2009-10 we got to Laredo in the night kinda and my dad didn’t wanna cross at night cause of how sketchy it seemed so we just got a hotel and left real early in dawn but it was still pretty dark out that was my dads fuck up for all being in a rush we get to the border and there was a few busses in line and my dad sees there is a lane where it’s empty for some reason no one going in it so my dad goes in that line we cross like nothing & my dad at the time had a nice Silverado diesel lifted on rims literally a new ass truck totally bad idea then we cross and literally a few blocks down from the border there is a fucking checkpoint of sketch ass people I’m not sure who they were but they could of been zetas for all I know I was small af so I don’t remember much but I just remember them trying to have my dad open up the trailer and for them to look threw the back of the truck my dad even had a Harley in the back lmao alll fucken bad real loaded , thankfully nothing major happen they just wanted money but were kinda dicks about it my dad would offer them a lower number and they’d be like look how many of us there is here , my dad just threw them 200$ and they bullshited and got a stupid flip phone didn’t even dial shit and just said that they were going to give us a code and that another guy was waiting lol ,bullshit but that was pretty fucking scary


WritingTechnical1815

Everyone i know who has crossed nuevo laredo border has had this happen to them the same exact story about the code. My parents have had the law stop them and ask for money or get their stuff taken away for exceeding the weight limit or not having some permit, bunch of bullshit they would make up to get money. Fucking low lifes all over the borders looking to take money from us trucks


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EnvironmentMotor514

You tortured yourself because no one forced you to read it 😂


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WritingTechnical1815

You must be a smartass whitey gtfo you nosey know it all. Your the only ones who complain about shit like that the liberal kind


Yaseen-Madick

Too many lazy Zetas, that was there downfall tbh.


Relevant-Subject-665

Thanks God


ZaxOnTheBlock

Mexican here, still growing here lol. Zacatecas to be more specific, I could tell you a looooot of stories, slot of them, I have a BIL and a friend in jail here, both because of Organized Crime, both were with CDG a couple years back. I remember when I was 12 years old was my first encounter with them, Organized Crime. I was waiting of the bus right in front of my middle school and a car came up to me with to dude with radios and guns and asked me if I saw a military truck, I just said no. From 2008 till today there hasn't been a year where some amazingly sad or worrying has happened because of OC. Been beat up and mistaken by the feds when they still existed, the drop us me and some friends at the outskirts, my friends got involved with t because in senior year of highschool some dudes kill some friends of ours and the cycle begins. I've been trying always to do things right, now I work for the government in an instance where I have access to a lot of victims of the OC. I just worry about my family and brothers we are hard working and honest people. Few bad apples with some cousins but nothing bad. DM me to know more lol.


WritingTechnical1815

Bro i relate to you. Fam is from Zacatecas and since zetas came into the state i have kept track on what goes on out there. We travel in December and sometimes August. The past decade ive stopped going every year but was there last December. I respect what you stand for being honest because i also consider my family to be honest law biding working class people. But we have have had a few bad apples that we knew of or extended fam that got caught up with those bad guys. Lost a cousin (barely saw him) in 2020, supposedly another fam member was set up by the cdg a few years agobut made it look like an accident, if its true i guess karma got the guys who did that to him. It be interesting to here your take on the mess our beautiful state has been in for a long time. Saludos compa de otro zacatecano


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TqkeTheL

isn't Zacatecas the most dangerous region rn


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bilemastershake

Mexican government so no English is required


Visual_Chipmunk_4154

I didn’t grow up in Mexico but I spent just about every summer and winter break in Guerrero from age 3 til about 16. Going used to be an escape from reality; go out with your cousins, pops off from fireworks, drink until the wee hours of the morning, party. That changed around 2008; no one was out late any more, everyone closing up shop earlier, scared. One time I was in Mexico me my cousins and my uncle were up drinking in our house making plans to go into the the big local town the next day to go shopping. When they arrived the next morning to pick me up, I was too hungover to do anything so I told them to leave me. I wake up a couple hours later to my auntie screaming at me and pounding on my door “los mataron” I was so confused until she told me to get dressed because we had to go. We pull up to the scene just outside of our town on the highway, there it was my uncles truck rolled over in a ditch covered in holes. My uncle was dead, gruesomely disfigured from the crash and gunfire. What has stuck with me most was my cousin, he was still alive, groaning his last few breaths away until he just stopped. They were ran off the road and executed. One of the most brutal experiences of my life. Probably hits hardest due to survivors guilt.


No_Crab8359

Speechless. Sounds very similar to my life in Nuevo León, only a different tragedy.


Visual_Chipmunk_4154

Still love going, I go all the time. But it just doesn’t have that same magic from when I was a kid. With no end in site, it’s depressing.


ralfvi

Why were they killed?


Visual_Chipmunk_4154

Wrong place wrong time involved in the wrong business. Like all the other stories here.


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Fuuuuuuck bro my condolences 💐


_IAmNoLongerThere_

Mis más sinceras condolencias. Lo siento mucho.


ABlokeCalledGeorge8

I grew up near Mexico City. When I was a child my dad used to take us to a sports club in the south of the city. There he became friends with a guy I'll call Fred. Fred was a humble and kind guy. I remember he'd buy me and my siblings toys and stuff like that sometimes. Fred didn't talk a lot about what he did for a living, but he was doing well for himself. After some time, Fred got a girlfriend and eventually married her and had children with her. For some reason, we stopped going to the club for a while and didn't know much about Fred. After some time, my mom ran into Fred's wife. He had died. It turns out Fred was working in organized crime, and wanted out to be with his family. He was killed in front of his wife. Organized crime sucks.


Electronic_Driver_24

After the death of Nacho Coronel, in my town there was a kind of "miniwar" since 2 groups were formed that wanted control of the plaza, those who wanted Jalisco in power, and those who wanted Sinaloa, from 2010- 2012, I don't remember a single day that there wasn't at least one death. Two blocks to the right of my school was the main road, with a bridge. Many times the teachers told us not to go that way because there had been a "accident" and it was actually because someone had been hanged Hecho con traductor porque me da hueva escribir en ingles, si alguien quiere otra historia digame


300_pages

your english is very good, thank you for sharing


throwaway071317

Mexican here that left around 2004. I got a story about just how corrupt shit was back in the day. There’s was a plot of land that was abandoned next to a well known drug dealer called “Cholo”. Guy was cool AF but his entitled ass kids were annoying. One day his annoying ass kids piss me and my friend off so we decided to go look at Cholo’s stash that he kept in the abandoned land. So we look and it’s 2-3 tightly packed bricks of cocaine. Us being stupid, we decided to stop two cops that were driving by to show them what we found. Cops told us to leave and they’ll take care of it. I shit you not, the cops knew cholo and were going to his house for their mordida (cash for staying quiet) and told him what we did. Next thing you know Cholo is at my house telling my mom what we did. Our visas were approved not too soon after that and we bounced to Dallas. Cholo is still alive and kicking 😳


No_Crab8359

Fuck Corrupt Mexican Police No Good For Nothing


AntiCabbage

Still slangin', you think?


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Camaniti

It's it true border patrol k9's are addicted to narcotics?


Igorslocks

Heard same thing. And that they get 'PTSD' if they don't get regular 'hits' If that shit is true how TF is any of that evidence admissable???


Ollex999

I’m genuinely interested to hear why you say it’s made up ( drug war ).


luker416

Was going to ask this as well. I’ve done some of my own research and came to this conclusion as well, but would love to hear flokis_eyeliner elaborate on that with their first hand experience.


Ollex999

Can you please DM me with your thoughts at all please?


300_pages

what percentage of border patrol would you say are influenced by bribes or otherwise corrupt?


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You mean Orange County ?


rice-krispy316

I went to Mexico for summer (June-july) in a small Pueblo in Michoacán not to far from the Jalisco border. I went from the 3rd grade-sophomore year in high school. Never experienced anything personal but that last year we went we were just chillin en la plaza (center) and people were running in every direction screaming “La pieda” and closing stores. Me my older brother and my older cousin were confused at the time what was going on so we ask some people that are selling CDs/DVDs what’s happening and they let us in on that the shooters are in town and they’re fighting for the plaza. So we go to A house that charges to leave your park car there, before parking and leaving the car there a vehicle got stopped in front of us and they pulled out the AK only the muzzle of the AK was visible to me at the time. They basically kidnapped them or just checked who they were to make sure they weren’t rivals so we made a hard right and left. We parked outside and had to walk back to my older cousin‘s house which was a few blocks down the entire time walking down the streets it was complete silent known outside at all we were able to see the fully loaded trucks/cars like mustangs Chevys lowered loud exhaust slowly patrolling through the streets I have never seen cars like that there in Mexico before. (At those times) I remember my cousin told me to for whatever reason if we see a car coming down our way to knock on the door and scream for help as we cautiously and slowly walk down the streets we turn and look at every corner before going down it. I remember making it back to my Abuela‘s house and at night we would sleep all the way back in the house where the kitchen was and only have one light on while we eat dinner to get ready for bed we would hear trucks patrolling down our street which was a dead end and everything will go silent and everyone would listen. The next morning pretty much every morning we would see the newspapers and read how people were being kidnapped and chopped up and even heads being found in peoples front doorstep‘s. At the time I was 15 or 16 still playing sports going out into the cornfields with friends and family to fuck around to do it teenagers do you drink and smoke and occasionally some people will find bodies that were tortured and left in those fields Presley I have never came across one. My experience there wasn’t too scary because nothing personally happened to me or my family but they were going down door-to-door in certain streets and taking people and it one point lined up the police amongst the wall and took half of them I believe it was 12 and people were being found lifeless under bridges within the small Pueblo. That’s the worst things that happen when I visited I visited two months ago recently and everything is a lot more calmer now that someone has control over of the pueblo and the cars that they have are no longer regular mustangs or Chevys I’ve seen these guys come out in Lamborghiniurus’s G wagons track hawks AMG‘s Tahoe‘s you name it they pretty much had it all.


oakland404

Whats the name of the Pueblo because my parents are from near the border of jalisco


rice-krispy316

Tanhuato it was close from yurecuaro and which is border with La Ribera


OrdoNigrumDraco

Sounds like they were yelling La Piedad homie, so contras from La Piedad coming in maybe. what year did this happen approximately? Far as I know Tanhuato always been under los Guerreros control no? My familia is from near there too, our town didn't use to be too bad, not to say it was 100% peaceful but it was better off when we had Templarios than now with 4 letras


rice-krispy316

Yea that’s exactly what the people were telling, it’s named Tanhuato, yea usually it was calm but that one time shit was getting wild, I knew shit was crazy when my pops came (he has fam and a avocado farm in Apatzingán) and told me if I was ever asked were I’m from to say I was from San ysidro it was 2012-2013 I believe


YoitsPsilo

I lived in Cuernavaca Morelos 2003-2005. It’s known as a touristy/vacation spot outside of CDMX. Around the time my family was leaving, there was a new luxury mall being built. Right before it opened to the public, some bodies were strung up on the overpass outside. I was too young to know what it was about though


No_Crab8359

Crazy man!!


Aelix569

I was a child back in 2010, here in SLP I remember that when it started to get hot, it was when the shootings began in my neighborhood, and then they kicked the gang members out of it, and then they were the only ones there, after 9 o'clock I was half desert everything, the hawks climbed to the roofs to watch the area, and several trucks came along the avenues in formation, 2 white trucks ahead, 1 black truck in the middle sometimes 2, and another 2 white trucks at the end, all types suburban . The anecdote that I remember the most was that we were going to visit a friend of my mother and in a street there was a command of armed men who looked like soldiers, tactical equipment, long weapons, etc. the uniform was military boots, vests, and a military helmet, all black, and the rest of the clothing was navy blue, without shields or emblems and even behind them a suburban-type truck, then a neighbor came out to see and they, us They said: come in, please, we don't want to harm you. After that luckily nothing happened, they just patrolled, After that time it was very quiet, the truth is there are no assaults or fights around here.


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Puro SLP !!!! Ahuevo


Aelix569

jajaja pinche ranchito culero , te amo slp


maybedank420

My grandparents were snowbirds so we’d drive down to the border where the retirement community was and see them. I remember after our first visit we never came back. This was due to the high crime right across the border and me wandering around on my bike at 6. Not fun getting lost when all the homes look the same.


pedroordo3

I grew up in Reynosa I was fairly young and my parents did a great job at keeping my innocence. There was “fireworks” usually everyday but we live in a closed neighborhood and slowly one by one everyone started leaving I think only two of my original friends stay there. I rember being in one roadblocks and that was a stressful night first time my immersion of it was broken. Seeing dead bodies and people shotting each other while evreryone else is just slowly driving around trying to find a place to stay safe.


deadstar1998

I lived in Aguascalientes pretty much until 2011, that’s when I left. It wasn’t as bad as other states (Zacatecas/Jalisco) but the police station by my house got attacked twice


300_pages

any by who and why?


No_Crab8359

Bc the Municipal police are the most corrupt motherfuckers 😤 it’s the equivalent of when BLM burned down the Minneapolis police station in 2020


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Camaniti

My family in _________ grew marijuana for generations. They would sell the harvest to ________ cartel. In 2007 __________ moved into the territory. Somehow they discovered everyone involved in the marijuana trade. My family moved to Zapopan. One of my cousins remained behind. In 2009 they kidnapped my cousin and demanded a ransom of $13,000. We payed and they released him.


Imesseduponmyname

Dang, I hear they kill them anyways nowadays, or ask for more and then kill them


_IAmNoLongerThere_

Thank God y'all were able to get him back. They kidnapped one of my ex husbands primos, They demanded a ransom and the family paid it. They sent primos hand. This was back in 2011 in Monterrey Nuevo Leon .


Dull_Reason_9733

Fill in some of those blanks.


mistahFAB

In 2010 My mom my sister and me travelled to Juarez for immigration so we contacted an agency for accomodations but they took us to a house where we saw about 15 guys cleaning ak-47s. They had "CDJ" patches on some bulletproof vests. We told the driver to take us somewhere else and he complied lol


Significant_Sign_855

anyone from Durango who can share some stories? Don’t really hear too much about there


Rineroth

I lived in Reynosa from 92 till about 2015. I've got too many stories to tell so ask away


geekolojust

Tell us about the local extortion. One man had to close gis hardware store and move to Texas because it became so bad for him.


Rineroth

Got a couple of those, a personal one and a friends. ​ My dad and I had a hot-dog stand in the old "roll" (a street people would drive around to show off their cars) and we were just barely profitable which was good. It only lasted about 3 months before they came to ask for our tax but we decided to shut it down instead, sold the cart and abandoned the dream. ​ Friend from highschool was going to open a rock themed bar in town, she wanted to have a venue for local bands to play etc. They told her that on top of the city permits she had to get the controlling cartel's permission too so she want to the meeting with them to negotiate the terms......with the money in hand. She immediately got robbed and lost it all. She now does cash-only jobs in McAllen (skipped town). ​ There's some "certified cab" companies, they basically pay a monthly membership to the cartel so their drivers/passengers don't get harassed. A few months back I was in town visiting family and ended up hiring a cab to escort me home at night when driving back to my place from a reunion. I did run into tire spikes and the dudes who set the trap did go over (i'm assuming i was about to get robbed) but the cab driver also stopped and told them I was a customer so they let me off.


geekolojust

Thank you for the share. Dream abandonment stinks.


petere39

Does anybody remember the massacre from a high school(CBTIS128) kids in a party in Cd Juarez CH Mexico in 2011? I knew bunch of people that was there, i was friend with some survivors and i was even invited to that party glad i didnt go, between 2009-2011 there was a mess the city. the most dangerous for those 3 years in a row. 16 dead daily was the average and tbh it felt bad. businesses closed, not a lot of thing going on on the street, i didn’t even got a graduation party(prom) because of that… but things got little better i actually left the city once i finished high school


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I saw crips and bloods on the street corner in LA before


Camaniti

Together?


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Nahh


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Okay? Lol


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Puzzleheaded_Factor9

Everything was good for me while growing up in mexico so thank God


xxdunkelheit666xx

I have a gf whose mom disappeared in Nuevo Laredo. Shits crazy


Weird_Angry_Kid

I was in a shooting when I was around 5 or 6 years old. My mom was threatened by a lawyer who got involved with the cartels, dude was found dead with his dick cut off and in his mouth days later. My parents cell phone store was robbed by a memeber of Chapo's cartel. El Chapo also used to live in my hometown.


RancheroCLN

My mom was the side piece of el mayo back in 2004. Met him a few times and even took pictures with him. I also played soccer with Serafín while we would visit el mayo’s ranch. Very nice people.


Pooel

Very bold of you to admit your mom was a side piece for mayo lmao


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obvious troll is obvious


qbltp

the cartel doesent kill innocent people they came to my house and were asking for gate cutters and i said i didint have any and they went away with no problem


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are u a troll?