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There was no press attention in Canada, and hardly any in the United States, about the crash during rush hour in downtown Mexico City of a Lear jet carrying the second-highest official in the Mexican government, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, along with key drug interdiction officials. Thirteen people died in the plane and on the ground, and 40 were injured.
Another passenger was former assistant attorney-general Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, who had a multi-million-dollar price put on his head by the cartels because of his work against the drug trade during the administration of Vicente Fox.
In the past year, Mexico's drug-related murder rate became four times' higher than the casualty rate in Iraq among Americans. Some 4,000 people have been killed and the all-out war waged by Sr. Mourino, 37, resulted in assassinations of police chiefs, mayors and soldiers.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=948794
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Tijuana's police chief was fired Monday following three days of violence that left 37 people dead in this border city plagued by warring drug gangs, including nine men found decapitated and four children caught in shootouts.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460025,00.html
Definatly not a good thing to have this instability so close to our borders.
And of course it's always nice when the Mexican military crosses our border and takes custody of one of OUR Border Patrol Agents.
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It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.
"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'
"It is fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly gunfight," said the local's posting.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/soldiers-cross-into-us-hold-guns-to-agent/
There was no press attention in Canada, and hardly any in the United States, about the crash during rush hour in downtown Mexico City of a Lear jet carrying the second-highest official in the Mexican government, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, along with key drug interdiction officials. Thirteen people died in the plane and on the ground, and 40 were injured.
Another passenger was former assistant attorney-general Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, who had a multi-million-dollar price put on his head by the cartels because of his work against the drug trade during the administration of Vicente Fox.
In the past year, Mexico's drug-related murder rate became four times' higher than the casualty rate in Iraq among Americans. Some 4,000 people have been killed and the all-out war waged by Sr. Mourino, 37, resulted in assassinations of police chiefs, mayors and soldiers.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=948794
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Tijuana's police chief was fired Monday following three days of violence that left 37 people dead in this border city plagued by warring drug gangs, including nine men found decapitated and four children caught in shootouts.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460025,00.html
Definatly not a good thing to have this instability so close to our borders.
And of course it's always nice when the Mexican military crosses our border and takes custody of one of OUR Border Patrol Agents.
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It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.
"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'
"It is fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly gunfight," said the local's posting.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/soldiers-cross-into-us-hold-guns-to-agent/
