A tactic furthered by the Naxals is being emulated by the tightly ingrained black market in northern Mexico:
Those traffickers demonstrated their pull in this neighborhood last month when they paid residents to block Monterrey’s major thoroughfares with hours-long demonstrations, day after day for two weeks.
Protesters included youths with their faces covered to hide their identities, the tapados (covered ones), but also their mothers and grandmothers. Some of the tapados were paid as little as 200 pesos, about $13, plus a cellular telephone; others received 500 pesos, about $33, and the backpacks filled with supplies.
