The street finds its own uses for things.

The radio signal travels deep into the arid countryside, hours by foot from the nearest road. There, the 8-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) dark-green branches of the rockrose bush conceal a radio tower painted to match. A cable buried in the dirt draws power from a solar panel. A signal-boosting repeater relays the message along a network of powerful antennas and other repeaters that stretch hundreds of miles (kilometers) across Mexico, a shadow communications system allowing the cartel to coordinate drug deliveries, kidnapping, extortion and other crimes with the immediacy and precision of a modern military or law-enforcement agency.

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One Response to “The street finds its own uses for things.”

  1. LinkSwarm for December 26, 2011 « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says:
    December 26, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    […] Mexican drug cartels have built their own national radio system. Let’s hope that Eric Holder didn’t give them that as well. (Hat tip: Dwight.) […]