Dr. John P. Sullivan was quoted extensively in an article on the Mexican cartels using land mines with a focus on the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación; CJNG).
Excerpt:
"But most of the explosives are improvised, Sullivan said, and probably made with the help of former soldiers and guerrilla fighters from Colombia, where a 2016 peace deal between the government and the nation’s biggest rebel group, the FARC, left many combatants unemployed. Using connections established through the cocaine trade, Mexican cartels began recruiting fighters for their own cause."
Keegan Hamilton and Kate Linthicum, "Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines." Los Angeles Times. 9 March 2024.
The article can be accessed at: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-09/mexico-cartel-land-mines-weapons
Source: Michoacan Secretary of Public Security
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