Posted on 08/02/2010 10:41:25 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas -- Mexican federal police officers were attacked with a grenade on Sunday, nearly two weeks after Mexican federal police were attacked with a car bomb.
According to El Diario, several journalists were present during the grenade attack on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what the extent of the injuries were from the grenade explosion.
Before the grenade attack, the Mexican federal police officers were attacked by gunmen in an SUV in Northern Juarez.
One officer was killed and another three were injured in the shooting.
The gunmen got away, but the officers were later able to find an abandoned SUV that was reportedly used in the attack.
When officers were searching the vehicle for evidence, a group of gunmen inside another SUV drove up threw a grenade at them and then opened fire.
No word yet on the extend of their injuries.
The cartel car bomb that blew up on July 15 sent shockwaves that reached beyond Ciudad Juarez
But as the drug war continues to rage, some border crossers are standing their ground and hoping for peace.
Dozens of people file through the border checkpoints to go to and come back from Juarez.
Raymundo Herrera is not one of them.
“Yeah, I used to go over there, but it’s been two years since I’ve gone over there,” Herrera said. “I’ve got my wife over there but I just speak to her on the phone.”
Herrera said he doesn’t go over to Juarez because of the threat of violence that can occur at any time and any place.
Violence, such as the car bomb that killed three people in Downtown Juarez and shattered any lingering sense of security in an already fragile city.
According to ABC-7’s newspartners at Channel 44 in Juarez, 262 people were killed in Juarez in July. That averages to about eight murders a day.
Still, several border crossers said their ties to Juarez are stronger than their safety concerns.
“Our lives need to keep going,” Alejandra Valles said. “I was born there, I fell in love over there, I learned how to read in that city. It's my city"
Diana Vegas said she won’t stop visiting Juarez because she still has family over there.
Commuters said the ever-present danger is just part of everyday life now.
"I guess they're used to it already so I mean all this that's going on is nothing new,” Angela said.
American authorities are taking heed of recent terror threats and taking precautions. The U.S. Consulate in Ciudad has been closed since Friday. It will remain closed until they finish a security review of the building.
Open warfare over there now. Nice. And our government still refuses to take the steps needed to secure our border. How many of those criminals are living in El Paso on some kind of ill-gotten visa? It is just a matter of time until one of those grenades is used on our law enforcement on American soil.
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President Calderone came to the US in May and gave a speech to Congress and everything about how none of the violence in Mexico is his fault, so we know it's true, right?
So, did their bad guys get their grenades at the same Wal*Mart in Texas that they bought all of their illegal guns?
Could it be that the Mexican government is lying through their teeth "wrong" about that and wants the US to take the fall for their inability to secure their own streets?
Illegal Alien Amnesty supporters want to bring the Mexican drug cartel violence to America.
A vote for any politician who supports Amnesty, is a vote of support for the drug cartels....Arizona, a vote for John McCain in 3 weeks is a vote in favor of this violence....
“American authorities are taking heed of recent terror threats and taking precautions.”
Yeah. Riiiigghhht.
El Presidente CABRON is a lying bastard who wants America to take the blame for all his sh!tty country’s problems.
Eff him and his screwed up gov’t.
Thanks for this ping Swinney Switch.
They showed video on KSAT San Antonio tonight of the grenade attack. Harrowing stuff.
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