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Mexico’s drug war uses drones, human shields, gunships

Mexican soldiers take cover behind a barricade of car tires against protesters who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, during a march against roadblocks in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Residents of Aguililla and other nearby communities who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, march against roadblocks in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Some residents say they are strongly pressured to participate in the protests, fearing their water or electricity might be cut off if they don’t. Others are just tired of paying the Viagras’ war taxes and being cut off from the outside world. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Residents of Aguililla and other nearby communities who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, march against roadblocks in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Some residents say they are strongly pressured to participate in the protests, fearing their water or electricity might be cut off if they don’t. Others are just tired of paying the Viagras’ war taxes and being cut off from the outside world. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Mexican soldiers take cover behind a barricade of car tires against protesters who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, during a march against roadblocks in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Residents from Aguililla and other nearby communities wade across a river to confront an army squad blocking a dirt road leading out of Jalisco territory, in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. The residents, who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, want the army to either fight both cartels, or at least let the two gangs fight it out amongst themselves. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Residents of Aguililla and other nearby communities who are fed up with the army’s strategy of simply separating the Jalisco and the Michoacan-based Viagras gangs, march against roadblocks in Loma Blanca, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. The army policy effectively allows the Viagras, best known for kidnapping and extorting money, to set up roadblocks and checkpoints that have choked off all commerce with Aguililla. Limes and cattle heading out, or supplies heading in, must pay a war tax to the Viagras. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)