Mexico’s narco-insurgency is now using bandh tactics to take down cities. Naxals have been doing this for years.
The center of the action last week was the bustling commercial city of Monterrey, where the authorities said criminals commandeered dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and other vehicles on Thursday and Friday to block more than 30 streets and highways. The blockades, called narcobloqueos by the Mexican news media, resulted in traffic chaos, with the trucks parked horizontally across highways and vehicles jammed up behind them.
This is an escalation from when the gangs were paying individuals to ‘demonstrate’ (a la a flashmob) , also in Monterrey.
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