I've seen it in Mexico. For example, last week one medium-sized Drug Boss was cornered by the mexican army in Matamoros and he ordered a city-wide operation of road-blocking and setting-cars-on-fire in order to escape, aided by a personal army of highly armed mercs.
10 years ago, this event would have been very surprising and scary and unlikely. Now that our world is upside down and we are upside down too, it barely raised some eyebrows.
Far more fantastic things have happened in the past 100 years than a gang leader causing chaos to facilitate his escape from the authorities, unless there is some key aspect to your story that I'm missing.
The communication to notify anyone involved in facilitating his escape was all done through new technology, like Twitter.
On the other side of the coin, Twitter is being used to quickly inform residents when an assassination or cartel murdel appears to be brewing on the streets.
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But we won't be very surprised.
I've seen it in Mexico. For example, last week one medium-sized Drug Boss was cornered by the mexican army in Matamoros and he ordered a city-wide operation of road-blocking and setting-cars-on-fire in order to escape, aided by a personal army of highly armed mercs.
10 years ago, this event would have been very surprising and scary and unlikely. Now that our world is upside down and we are upside down too, it barely raised some eyebrows.
Far more fantastic things have happened in the past 100 years than a gang leader causing chaos to facilitate his escape from the authorities, unless there is some key aspect to your story that I'm missing.
The communication to notify anyone involved in facilitating his escape was all done through new technology, like Twitter.
On the other side of the coin, Twitter is being used to quickly inform residents when an assassination or cartel murdel appears to be brewing on the streets.
Here's a semi-sensationalist article on it, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/26/twitter-blog-mex...
And the famous twitter account of a Mexican anti-cartel activist, http://twitter.com/infonarco