Posted on 05/20/2007 4:05:23 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — Assailants gunned down three police officers within 24 hours around the northern industrial city of Monterrey, the latest in a wave of killings of law enforcement officials across Mexico.
Commander Fidel Reyna and agent Rene Reyes were ambushed with a spray of automatic rifle fire as they drove their patrol car through the suburb of Santa Catarina late Saturday, Mexican media reported.
Hours earlier, Commander Mario Sanchez, 47, was shot dead in San Nicolas de los Garza, one of Mexico's most affluent municipalities.
State police in Monterrey did not immediately answer calls to confirm the killings.
Gunmen linked to drug-trafficking gangs are increasingly targeting police and soldiers as President Felipe Calderon wages a national offensive against powerful drug cartels.
On Wednesday, some 50 armed men killed five policemen and two residents in the town of Cananea, near the Arizona border. In recent days, gunmen also killed the leader of a state investigative police team in Hermosillo, the Sonora state capital, and the chief of criminal investigations in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
When this happens in Iraq, it’s an internecine civil war. When it happens in Mexico, it’s Saturday.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
A scene soon to be repeated along the southwestern border states.
Chuckle....
What are we gonna call it when it happens in El Paso, Laredo, Tucson, or San Diego? /rhet.
It’s illegal to own a gun in Mexico. I am shocked that there is gun violence there! Shocked I say!
That comment at the end of the post regarding 50 armed men and Cananea? Cananea is just over the border from me.
Along with the ills that a tidal wave of non English speaking third worlders bring will come a crime wave this country has never experienced. Adios America. Thank you GW, a**hole!!
Soon to be coming to America thanks to Bush, Kennedy!
This is a major story that the msm is not covering. I guess it goes against their script.
Just three? Sounds like a slow day in a peaceful Mexican city.
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