Sperari Tumblelog

Picks and finds from Erica Tesla. Little elaboration here, kiddies; if you're looking for that, go to my blog. I largely post stuff here to distribute stuff to friends - stuff that otherwise I'd forget to IM them (or whatever) - or to save it for me, for later. Yes, I am so scatterbrained I have to blog stuff to myself.

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Over the next six minutes — as the official, Minerva Bautista, screamed into a police radio, “They’re killing me!” — up to 40 heavily armed commandos unleashed more than 2,700 rounds at her three-vehicle convoy of armor-plated sport-utility vehicles. Some of the weapons were capable of penetrating a vehicle’s engine block or knocking down a helicopter.

— Mexico’s crime syndicates increasingly target authorities in drug war’s new phase