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Mexico gunbattle near Texas border between suspected cartel members, police leaves at least 21 dead
FOX News ^ | 12/01/2019 | By Travis Fedschun

Posted on 12/02/2019 10:39:58 AM PST by Red Badger

Four police officers were among nearly two dozen people killed after security forces engaged in an hour-long gunbattle with suspected cartel members Saturday in a Mexican town near the U.S. border, days after President Trump said he was moving to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations.

The shootout happened around noon in the small town of Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state located about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.

Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media that four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation and that several municipal workers were missing. On Sunday, the Coahuila state government said that security forces killed seven additional members of the gang, bringing the death toll to at least 21.

The armed group of suspected cartel members stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were initially killed in the response.

Riquelme told reporters the state had acted “decisively” to take back the town, as videos of the shootout posted on social media showed burned-out vehicles and the facade of Villa Union’s municipal office riddled with bullets.

A damaged black pickup truck with the C.D.N. of the Cartel del Noreste, or Cartel of the Northeast, written in white on its door could be seen on the street in an Associated Press photo.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: again; cartels; coahuila; drugs; eaglepass; mexico; texas; villaunion; wod
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Horrid pics at link........................
1 posted on 12/02/2019 10:39:58 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

4 Mexican police dead right?

No Americans?


2 posted on 12/02/2019 10:43:32 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

Cartels run 80% of Mexico.


3 posted on 12/02/2019 10:44:13 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: DannyTN

Correct, AFAIK.

BUT

Go to the link and check out the TEXAS FRONT LICENSE PLATE ON THE DRUG CARTEL TRUCK....................


4 posted on 12/02/2019 10:44:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: DannyTN

there were 17 dead cartel attackers


5 posted on 12/02/2019 10:45:43 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Red Badger

This story can’t be true. Gun violence only happens in the USA because of our outdated second amendment. You must know this, it’s been very well covered in all the papers and tv network news programs.


6 posted on 12/02/2019 10:47:18 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Red Badger

If we could ban guns these people would spend their time in pews at the local church.


7 posted on 12/02/2019 10:48:08 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: SkyDancer

“Cartels run 80% of Mexico.”

Proggies run 80% of America.


8 posted on 12/02/2019 10:48:19 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Red Badger

like someone said- ‘well that is 18 that won’t show up on our voting rolls’


9 posted on 12/02/2019 10:49:06 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

The existing Government of Mexico is a FACADE... Mexico is run by the CARTEL!


10 posted on 12/02/2019 10:49:31 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Bob434

17 i mean- can’t count this morning


11 posted on 12/02/2019 10:49:47 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SkyDancer

Wonder what % of America they run?


12 posted on 12/02/2019 10:52:20 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bert

That’s not a terrible ration 4 to 17.

The government could win a war of attrition at those rates, but still needs to be better.


13 posted on 12/02/2019 10:54:50 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

Two Dead trucks with Texas plates.


14 posted on 12/02/2019 10:56:12 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it that way!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Mexico needs more gun control laws......................


15 posted on 12/02/2019 11:00:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Only reason they exist is because of druggies in the US.


16 posted on 12/02/2019 11:07:11 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: polymuser

I doubt that.


17 posted on 12/02/2019 11:07:29 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: polymuser

Proggies get 80% of their money from Mexican drug cartels”


18 posted on 12/02/2019 11:11:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

I pray that Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme has increased his security detail ten-fold and scrutinized every one of them. He is a marked man. Very brave man, too.


19 posted on 12/02/2019 11:12:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger
Nah, we don't need a coast to coast wall, no way.

Stolen truck, still has the Texas plates.

A damaged black pickup truck with the C.D.N. of the Cartel del Noreste, or Cartel of the Northeast, written in white on its door could be seen on the street in an Associated Press photo.

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20 posted on 12/02/2019 11:19:28 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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