Mexican drug cartels are further adopting the tactic of the bandh. This time:
Yesterday the army arrested the Monterrey-area boss of the Zetas, known as El Tory, and, in an effort to free him, his Zeta operatives set up 30 roadblocks all over the city which completely shut it down.
While the operational capabilities of the Zetas to set up thirty roadblocks so quickly is somewhat impressive, to me it only reveals that they have a hidden army of street rateros (punks) in place all over the city who, at a moment’s notice, can be ordered to hijack city buses and tractor trailers.
[...] Bandh concept comes from the Indian Naxalite insurgency (as covered by Shlok Vaidya). A bandh is the systemic shutdown of a particular area. A criminal insurgency that can repeatedly [...]