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Rosie in part 6 to the doc: bro I am fucking Locked In you’re killing my vibe
#Rosie on the verge of a mental break down: as long as I Never Stop Moving and don’t have time to think I’ll be fine idk what’s the issue#Kelly watches Mota
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Mexican heroin is flooding the US, and the Sinaloa cartel is steering the flow
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Mexican cartels have shifted heavily into heroin production, responding to growing heroin and opioid use in the US.
The Sinaloa cartel appears to be leading that shift, despite the extradition of its former leader, "El Chapo" Guzman, and internal conflicts over his successor.
Heroin availability in the US — and overdose deaths related to drug — has skyrocketed over the past several years.
Eleven of the Drug Enforcement Administration's 21 field divisions in the US rated it has the number-one drug threat in 2016. And while the DEA says heroin from Mexico, South America, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia is all available in the US, the agency's testing and research indicate that the US's southern neighbor is the dominant source.
"Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Colombia dominate the US heroin market because of their proximity, established transportation and distribution infrastructure, and ability to satisfy heroin demand in the United States," the DEA notes in its 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment.
Mexican cartels' shift to producing heroin — as well as synthetic drugs like fentanyl — has been driven in part by loosening marijuana laws in the US, and the Sinaloa cartel appears to be the main player in a lucrative market.
2017 DEA NDTA
The cartel's former leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was rearrested in Mexico in January 2016 and extradited to the US in January this year. During his incarceration and in the wake of his extradition, the cartel was wracked by infighting between members competing for control and faced growing competition from the Jalisco New Generation cartel, its only real rival in terms of power.
But one of Guzman's peers, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, appears to have stabilized the cartel, quelling internal conflict and forging a kind of peace with the CJNG, according to Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA.
A Mexican government report earlier this year said Zambada had maintained the cartel's "cohesion" and avoided a war between its principal factions. Now the cartel "is more powerful than ever," members told Sinaloa state-based newspaper Rio Doce in October.
'The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse'
"The business didn't decrease with the extradition of" Guzman, a cartel operator, who described himself as a mid-level member, told Rio Doce. "We keep sending chiva [heroin], perico [cocaine], cristal [methamphetamine]. The only one that decreased was mota [marijuana], but from there on out everything continues like before," he said.
The operator, guarded by 20 armed men at a ranch in Badiraguato, the community where Guzman was born, told Rio Doce that the value of marijuana had fallen considerably — from about $74 a kilo seven years ago to a little over $26 now — due to marijuana legalization in the US. Falling prices led many marijuana growers to shift to opium.
The Sinaloa cartel dominates much of Mexico's Pacific coast, which includes main opium-cultivation areas in Guerrero and Sinaloa, which is part of country's Golden Triangle. (The CJNG is also active in that area.)
2017 DEA NDTA
For Mexico's cartels, "the big moneymaker right now, given the opioid epidemic, is heroin, and the reason that it's heroin is that people who have become addicted to prescription opioids find it a lot cheaper to purchase heroin," Vigil told Business Insider.
"The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse in the United States. They always have been," Vigil said. "And as a result of that there's been a shift to the cultivation of opium poppies."
Mexican cartels often have improvised labs — "I call them 'kitchen labs,' because they use nothing more than pots and pans that you would find in any kitchen," Vigil said — located near growing areas. The cartel chemists who run those labs don't have formal training, but they're mentored by other chemists and know how to convert opium to morphine and heroin, Vigil added.
A heroin "cook" in northern Sinaloa state told Rio Doce production had increased dramatically.
"Before I cooked some 40 kilos a year," he said. "But now I'm cooking like some 30 kilos a month," making both black-tar and white-powder heroin, a sign Mexican producers are drawing on Colombian methods.
Mexican Naval Secretariat
The cook told Rio Doce that Guzman's extradition had no effect on his work, and a group of farmers who grow marijuana and opium told the newspaper that they hadn't seen a drop in demand after Guzman was sent north.
Data on Mexico's opium production varies, so it is hard to say how it has changed in recent years. The Mexican government says it eradicated 57,402 acres of opium crops through the end of October this year. That amount already exceeds any of the past five years, with the exception of 2015, which 2017 is on pace to surpass.
Gauging how many plants are actually destroyed is another matter however, as the number of them in a given area varies widely, Vigil told Business Insider in May. Earlier this year, Mexico's army allowed the US and UN to observe opium-poppy eradication — the first time it had done so in at least a decade. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly flew over poppy fields in Guerrero this summer.
'They do it because they want to'
Most Mexican heroin and synthetic opioids are trafficked over land, frequently going through ports of entry on the US-Mexico border. Shipments travel around the US, often via the interstate highway system. Sinaloa, like most Mexican cartels, isn't involved in retail-level drug sales, but its members do travel to the US to oversee wholesale transactions, distributing bulk quantities to local sellers.
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The cartel has a presence throughout the US, and New York City appears to have become a hub for the northeast, an especially busy region.
Seizures of fentanyl, which is more profitable than heroin, in the city this year are 10 times what they were last year, and DEA intelligence indicates that 80% of the drugs seized are linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
While the spread of heroin and opioid abuse in the US has had devastating consequences for many communities, for the traffickers, it is simply a matter of business.
Americans "buy [drugs], we sell," the Sinaloa operative told Rio Doce. "We don't force any gringo who consumes heroin or marijuana," he added. "They do it because they want to, and if one doesn't sell it to them, somebody else is going to do it."
Mexico's cartels, Vigil said, are "very much like any corporation. They judge the market demand, and they shift accordingly, and I would have to say the cartels shift much more efficiently and quickly than any major corporation, because they don't have to deal the bureaucracy."
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Mexican heroin is flooding the US, and the Sinaloa cartel is steering the flow
Mexican cartels have shifted heavily into heroin production, responding to growing heroin and opioid use in the US.
The Sinaloa cartel appears to be leading that shift, despite the extradition of its former leader, "El Chapo" Guzman, and internal conflicts over his successor.
Heroin availability in the US — and overdose deaths related to drug — has skyrocketed over the past several years.
Eleven of the Drug Enforcement Administration's 21 field divisions in the US rated it has the number-one drug threat in 2016. And while the DEA says heroin from Mexico, South America, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia is all available in the US, the agency's testing and research indicate that the US's southern neighbor is the dominant source.
"Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Colombia dominate the US heroin market because of their proximity, established transportation and distribution infrastructure, and ability to satisfy heroin demand in the United States," the DEA notes in its 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment.
Mexican cartels' shift to producing heroin — as well as synthetic drugs like fentanyl — has been driven in part by loosening marijuana laws in the US, and the Sinaloa cartel appears to be the main player in a lucrative market.
The cartel's former leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was rearrested in Mexico in January 2016 and extradited to the US in January this year. During his incarceration and in the wake of his extradition, the cartel was wracked by infighting between members competing for control and faced growing competition from the Jalisco New Generation cartel, its only real rival in terms of power.
But one of Guzman's peers, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, appears to have stabilized the cartel, quelling internal conflict and forging a kind of peace with the CJNG, according to Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA.
A Mexican government report earlier this year said Zambada had maintained the cartel's "cohesion" and avoided a war between its principal factions. Now the cartel "is more powerful than ever," members told Sinaloa state-based newspaper Rio Doce in October.
'The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse'
"The business didn't decrease with the extradition of" Guzman, a cartel operator, who described himself as a mid-level member, told Rio Doce. "We keep sending chiva [heroin], perico [cocaine], cristal [methamphetamine]. The only one that decreased was mota [marijuana], but from there on out everything continues like before," he said.
The operator, guarded by 20 armed men at a ranch in Badiraguato, the community where Guzman was born, told Rio Doce that the value of marijuana had fallen considerably — from about $74 a kilo seven years ago to a little over $26 now — due to marijuana legalization in the US. Falling prices led many marijuana growers to shift to opium.
The Sinaloa cartel dominates much of Mexico's Pacific coast, which includes main opium-cultivation areas in Guerrero and Sinaloa, which is part of country's Golden Triangle. (The CJNG is also active in that area.)
For Mexico's cartels, "the big moneymaker right now, given the opioid epidemic, is heroin, and the reason that it's heroin is that people who have become addicted to prescription opioids find it a lot cheaper to purchase heroin," Vigil told Business Insider.
"The cartels are very attuned to shifts in drug abuse in the United States. They always have been," Vigil said. "And as a result of that there's been a shift to the cultivation of opium poppies."
Mexican cartels often have improvised labs — "I call them 'kitchen labs,' because they use nothing more than pots and pans that you would find in any kitchen," Vigil said — located near growing areas. The cartel chemists who run those labs don't have formal training, but they're mentored by other chemists and know how to convert opium to morphine and heroin, Vigil added.
A heroin "cook" in northern Sinaloa state told Rio Doce production had increased dramatically.
"Before I cooked some 40 kilos a year," he said. "But now I'm cooking like some 30 kilos a month," making both black-tar and white-powder heroin, a sign Mexican producers are drawing on Colombian methods.
The cook told Rio Doce that Guzman's extradition had no effect on his work, and a group of farmers who grow marijuana and opium told the newspaper that they hadn't seen a drop in demand after Guzman was sent north.
Data on Mexico's opium production varies, so it is hard to say how it has changed in recent years. The Mexican government says it eradicated 57,402 acres of opium crops through the end of October this year. That amount already exceeds any of the past five years, with the exception of 2015, which 2017 is on pace to surpass.
Gauging how many plants are actually destroyed is another matter however, as the number of them in a given area varies widely, Vigil told Business Insider in May. Earlier this year, Mexico's army allowed the US and UN to observe opium-poppy eradication — the first time it had done so in at least a decade. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly flew over poppy fields in Guerrero this summer.
'They do it because they want to'
Most Mexican heroin and synthetic opioids are trafficked over land, frequently going through ports of entry on the US-Mexico border. Shipments travel around the US, often via the interstate highway system. Sinaloa, like most Mexican cartels, isn't involved in retail-level drug sales, but its members do travel to the US to oversee wholesale transactions, distributing bulk quantities to local sellers.
The cartel has a presence throughout the US, and New York City appears to have become a hub for the northeast, an especially busy region.
Seizures of fentanyl, which is more profitable than heroin, in the city this year are 10 times what they were last year, and DEA intelligence indicates that 80% of the drugs seized are linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
While the spread of heroin and opioid abuse in the US has had devastating consequences for many communities, for the traffickers, it is simply a matter of business.
Americans "buy [drugs], we sell," the Sinaloa operative told Rio Doce. "We don't force any gringo who consumes heroin or marijuana," he added. "They do it because they want to, and if one doesn't sell it to them, somebody else is going to do it."
Mexico's cartels, Vigil said, are "very much like any corporation. They judge the market demand, and they shift accordingly, and I would have to say the cartels shift much more efficiently and quickly than any major corporation, because they don't have to deal the bureaucracy."
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May 28 2017
1. FIRST Youtube video you ever watched? - i legit don't remember 2. FIRST person you subscribed to on YouTube? -probably like Bethany Mota or something 3. do you still talk to your FIRST love? -hell no 4. FIRST kiss? -hasn't happened yet lol 5. FIRST alcoholic drink? - beer and I wanted to die 6. FIRST car? -don't have one yet 7. FIRST job? -answering phones at my paps car lot 8. FIRST pet? -a dog named holly 9. FIRST celebrity crush? -troy bolton 10. FIRST real boyfriend? -never had one lmao 11. who was the FIRST person to text you today? - technically a friend but literally my mom 12. who was your FIRST grade teacher? - a lady named mrs hosler 13. where was your FIRST sleepover? -at one my my still best friends house 14. what was the FIRST thing you did this morning? -check my phone probably 15. FIRST concert you ever went to? -Maroon 5 + Kelly Clarkson 16. FIRST broken bone? -never broke one 17. FIRST movie you remember seeing? -the little mermaid 18. FIRST sport you were involved in? -dance but I guess basketball 19. FIRST tweet? -it's a retweet 20. FIRST Facebook profile pic? -my Facebook is long deleted 21. FIRST piercing? -my first piercing on my ear lobe
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Alright ladies. Today is the day that some of us (me) have been waiting for for a fucking decade. Masters of the air is finally here. Time to be feral
#I will not live blog but will be writing down thoughts and feelings as I watch and will probs post later#Kelly watches mota#🫡
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yall im sorry but buck/y will Never be winnix 😤
one pairing asked the other to be his best man and the other asked if he would come home to new jersey with him. they are not the same
#me everytime i see a post comparing buck/y to winnix: Keep my wifes Name out of your God Damn Mouths#do i love the Angst that comes with buck/y? absolutely im eating that shit up#but one pairing loves each other fully and equally and one just. doesnt#I said what I said 😤#bob#Mota#winnix#Kelly watches Mota
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My official review of the first two eps of masters of the air
#graphic design is my passion#can’t wait for him to devestate me in 2-4 episodes#Kelly watches Mota#masters of the air
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Croz going from feeling like he’s the worst navigator in the 8th Air Force to being the guy who made the plans for the entire air assault on d-day
#the way I didn’t realize this iconic reaction meme was Andrea swift until just now#Kelly watches Mota
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He’s baby your honor
#this is a Harry Crosby stan account!!!! 😤😤😤#‘Harry Crosby! greatest navigator in the 8th Air Force!’#Kelly watches Mota
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The way bucky immediately goes 😒 whenever buck mentions Marge makes me cackle like be more obvious about your little crush my dude
#the way he just Lays there hugging his pillow and blankly staring at buck when he asks him to be his best man#that boy is Heartbroken and mentally thinking ‘I wanna be Your Man. period.’#it’s sick#Kelly watches Mota
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Little baby Rosie being lowkey star struck by buck and bucky that he just starts nervous blabbing vs confident badass veteran Rosie fake fighting buck for the pilots seat and feeling like equals 🥺
#absolutely bonkers to me that Rosie’s first mission is bucks last mission#and then they don’t see each other until the very end of the war after Rosie’s gone on to have the most flights of any person in the 100tg#Kelly watches Mota
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Rosie with a literal gun to his head trying to think of words to prove he’s an America: “COCA COLA!!”
#me too bitch#when that man is Not in a plane he is as smooth as chunky peanut butter lemme tell you what#Kelly watches Mota
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Mota episode 1 thoughts
Post watching thoughts-
Was initially worried that them being mostly officers they wouldn’t have the right Vibe (I rarely read memoirs from guys who were officers because they often aren’t in the thick of it) but they all seem like barely contained idiots and I love it
Definitely miss the bob and pacific vibe of the real guys interview clips but like. I Get it. The war Ended almost 80 years ago like. It’s a little late for that
#gonna watch ep 2 tomorrow cus I’m Sleepy#and the hour eps takes me two hours to watch when I have to keep pausing#Kelly watches Mota#masters of the air
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Sgt Quinn not knowing all the words to the star spangled banner should be proof enough that he’s not a spy. That right there is a true American boy
#I was in marching band for 4 years and had to play thay approximately 400 times and I do not know the words and I never will#Kelly watches Mota
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How painful must it be for Kenny to know these guys and have such pride in his work and then every mission he just has to sit and wait to see who came back, what planes are fucked, what friends hell never see again and never even really know what happened to them
#the way he gets left on the runway in part 5 after Munster is when only Rosie comes back#and he’s asking about bubbles and crank and bucky and all they can say is not now Kenny#and drive off leaving him there all alone#:(#Kelly watches Mota
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Tbh watching Mota I did not get fruity vibes from buck at all. In my mind it always seemed like bucky was in love with buck but knew it was unrequited and he could live with it but when the reunite in the camp, the look they give each other says everything- that bucks always been in love with bucky, even if he wasn’t aware of it the whole time, he knows it’s there as he watches bucky file into the camp all broken and bruised and as bucky grins at buck and tries to keep it cool he sees it in his friends eyes, the feeling he’s felt for so long and never expected to see reflected back at him
#let me be straight- I did not think I would be a buck/y shipper!!!#Elvis just gave such straight vibes I couldn’t convince myself of it#and also. Bucky and Curt def fucked okay#but then when they reunited!!!#and the whole ‘what took you so long?’#I folded like a lawn chair#Kelly watches Mota#these gays. they’re trying to murder me#what took you so long
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