[robowombat]

Strange new found respect for the organization that regularly violates our southern frontier. Is this article some sort of PR plant?

[TADSLOS]

Trim soldiers now stand guard at federal tollbooths and bolster security at the U.S-Mexico border

[shiva]

They had to do something to earn their Siesta.

[archy]

Earlier this year, the commandos surprised Drug Enemy No. 1, Benjamín Arellano Félix. Acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, they swooped down on a middle-class neighborhood in the city of Puebla without alerting local police and federal agents – some allegedly corrupted by the Arellano Félix cartel.

That bust was the crowning moment for the commandos, who've captured many of the most notorious drug criminals in Mexico in the last year. They also discovered a tunnel that had ferried billions of dollars worth of drugs from the Mexican state of Baja California to the United States.

The Arrellano Félix brothers – one of whom was killed in a February shootout with police allegedly on a rival drug lord's payroll – had been Mexico's most wanted criminals since they were linked to a mistaken hit on a Roman Catholic cardinal in 1993.

I bet getting Arellano Félix out of the way cost the Herrera cartel plenty. But they'll make it up from the shipments heading north this year and next, no doubt.

[archy]

Strange new found respect for the organization that regularly violates our southern frontier. Is this article some sort of PR plant?

Nah. It's by Laurence Iliff and Ricardo Sandoval, of the Dallas morning dishrag. they're sympaticos.

Sympathisers.

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[Delbert]

Respect...we dont need no stinkin respect.

[archy]

The army officers "bring to the table discipline and a sense of order," said one U.S. official, who asked not to be identified.

I bet.