re: The true story of how 77-year-old Don Alejo took on the Los Zetas cartel by himself

I love stories like this. Lone mad men spitting in the face of the enemy. Really wish we would let our boys loose on these cartel losers. Send a few force recon lads and a battalion of Marines and we would have that whole place cleaned up in a month. Maybe even some armored divisions if you want to show off.

Also reminds me of this crazy bastard:

Neal Ellis

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Ellis and his crew continued to operate against the RUF, although due to the loss of the capital the government were unable to pay them. Anecdotally, when their ammo supplies were expended, Ellis would fly his gunship low to the ground in order to intimidate the RUF and cause their armed trucks to overturn due to the downdraft. Such was the impact on their morale that the RUF sent numerous death threats to Ellis and placed a price on his head, to which he and his crew responded by dropping thousands of leaflets with a picture of their helicopter and the words "RUF: this time we've dropped leaflets. Next time it will be a half-inch Gatling machine gun, or 57mm rockets, or 23mm guns, or 30mm grenades, or ALL OF THEM!"

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