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Section 107
I guess all those unpaid parking tickets almost finally caught up to you.
When I was in Cuernavaca this past December I noticed my Mexican in-laws doing some interesting security practices at the house we rented:
- chair tilted against the kitchen door with cans and bottles on the seat
- dining room table pushed up against the sliding patio doors in the dining room
- car parked right up next to the driveway gate and door so they couldn't be opened (opens in from the road).
Now, this was in a gated enclave within a gated community in Lomas, one of the better neighborhoods. I suspect it was overkill but this is not a neighborhood my family was familiar with; quite interesting nonetheless.
Darn! Busted!
Funny. Before we lived in Cuernavaca in Lomas de Atzingo, where this house is, we lived in Lomas de Chapultepec in CDMX (on Montes Cárpatos).
Im pretty sure the shooting up the front gate and setting fire to the car are a message, a warning. CDMX, the states of Mexico and Morelos are the battleground between several cartels that want to take over. Among these is the
Guerreros Unidos, which is a spinoff of the Beltrán Leyva cartel.
Mexico’s regional cartels and gangs. Areas cross-hatched are conflict zones between cartels seeking to exert dominance.Stratfor.