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Mexican soldiers fought gun battles with drug cartel hitmen near the U.S. border after gangsters abducted local police in violence that killed 21 people and left bodies strewn in the desert.
Soldiers pursued the hitmen through freezing desert in the northern state of Chihuahua after they dragged nine people, including some police, out of houses and shot six of them at a ranch in the early hours of Tuesday, the army said.
Heavily armed soldiers burst into the ranch, near the Texan border, and shot dead several of the hitmen, later chasing another group by helicopter before killing them too, army spokesman Enrique Torres said from the area…
The surge in bloodshed has scared off foreign tourists and investors along the border just as the global economic crisis is pushing Mexico into recession…
More than 2,000 of the drug war deaths recorded last year were in Chihuahua state, including the murder of 13 people at a party in August.
The presence of more than 3,000 troops and federal police in Chihuahua has done nothing to contain the violence. Ciudad Juarez, a manufacturing city in the desert across from El Paso, Texas, has seen beheadings, daily shootouts and a surge in kidnappings and extortion.
Just in case you were thinking of a day trip.
US invasion of Mexico to bring stability coming soon.
So, having armed para-military gangs crossing into the US is as good as not having them crossing the border?
I’d say for the average American drug user who just wants his weed at a decent price and doesn’t care about the death and chaos at the border, the answer is yes.
“As long as Americans want drugs and are willing to pay for them and they’re illegal, there will always be a rationale for the drug dealers to be there.”
I will be going to Mexico Monday. I have no medical insurance, so I can not get a prescription without a large chuck of change exchanging hands for the doctor. Now, if I can only locate a bullet resistant vest.
Oh, wrong kind of drugs, never mind!
Shit, I used to have to go down there on business. Thank God I’m retired.
Two words: “Failed State”
They named a town after a small dog?
If we don’t get serious about the border these fights will end up happening in San Diego and McAllen.
#27 Agreed. Need to seal the border & only allow traffic through checkpoints.
#27 – Already happening in San Diego, Atlanta and Houston. It’s been in the news this past week.
#21 – I hope you’re kidding.
#15 – They are terrorists. Read the news. They announce on police band radio the names of police and officials they will kill next. Their “accuracy” has been 100% so far. That’s terrorizing, so they’re terrorists.
#26 – The dog was once the mayor.
Las muertas de Juárez
Ciudad Juarez has been a hell hole for decades.
#27, Mr. Baggins,
If we don’t get serious about the border these fights will end up happening in San Diego and McAllen.
Then Oklahoma City, Nashville, Ashville, Raleigh, then Washington?
Good thing they are heading North East instead of just North.
25,
Almost…
Look at the map of mexico..The politico’s DONT do much of anything really..
They dont develop ANYTHING, they dont build, NOTHING.
Only lawful areas are near Larger cities and TOURIST locations.
Drugs..Legalize them, control them, monitor them, and TAX them, and SELL THEM…and DUMP the market on those selling illegally.
MEXICO,
should ask the USA to interdict, within the 200 miles from the border.
WHICH could make 200 miles of NO-MANS land, unless you have a JOB and can PROVE IT..
AS well as make one HELL of a BORDER crossing.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11994542&ch=4226714&src=news
yahoo/AP has a video..
OMG OMG SHreek!!! SHREEK!!
The Mexicans are coming!!! AHHHHHOMG OMG SHreek!!! SHREEK!!
The Mexicans are coming!!! AHHHHH
What do you want to bet this stuff makes it to our side of the border? Oh wait. It already has.
This is ridiculous. The government and the police know ALL the drug lords involved. They can just bring in the army and kill every drug lord in the country.
Problem is half the drug lords are in the government, what a dilemma!