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I indicated since 2003 that the Mara Salvatuchra or MS 13 , and the Trinitarios (the Dominicano gang active throughout the US , St Thomas, St Croix, Belize and peripherally through proxies in some Antillean islands), are the proxies of some powerful Mexican “ narco-cartels ” . Increasingly Caribbean gangs are as I have stated previously,   displaying certain characteristics most often associated with terrorist organizations i.e. kidnappings used as a political bargaining chip whilst simultaneously using kidnapping as a revenue stream, their use of highly sophisticated military grade weapons, tactics of dismemberment of rivals and even civilians as a means of sowing terror and fear in their opposition, local populations and the elite within the state apparatus.    Drug trafficking is viewed as a primary threat to citizen security and U.S. interests in Latin America and the Caribbean despite decades of anti-drug efforts by the United States and partner ...

The No Limit Soldiers are a gang that originated in the Koraal Specht neighborhood on the island of Curacao I have written before about the gang, specifically in the post “ Who is Responsible for the Murder of Helmin Wiels?” As regular readers of this Blog know, I post often pertinent to regional developments in the cocaine trafficking industry and its transnational character. I often make linkages between organized criminal activity originating out of Colombia and Mexico, and how it is dramatically changing forever the Caribbean social reality.   The No Limit Gang out of Koraal Specht Curaca is a perfect example of the above. What started as a street gang is now a viable highly organized sophisticated criminal enterprise . With structural alliances, with the Miami-based Haitian organized gang Zoe Pound ,  Colombian crime syndicates and more recently the Zetas from Mexico, the No Limit Gang is one of so-called “ Dutch” Caribbean’s most wealthy , sophisticated and organiz...