Posted on 03/24/2005 6:12:46 AM PST by txdoda
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas In less than six hours, this raucous border town saw the execution of a convict, a prison riot, the deadly ambush of a Mexican police officer, and a fiery shootout that ended just yards from the U.S. border and sent bystanders scrambling for cover behind telephone poles and concrete walls.
By the time it was over, two people were dead and seven injured, local authorities said.
"It's not every day that you face enemy fire from the other side of the border," said Laredo police Officer Octaviano "Tony" Rodríguez, clutching a .45-caliber pistol after a gunbattle erupted near Laredo's International Bridge No. 1.
Already this year, at least 250 people have been killed in drugrelated violence along the border....
(Excerpt) Read more at eluniversal.com.mx ...
"execution of a convict..."
I thought Mexico was proud of the fact that unlike the "barbaric" Americans, it had banned the death penalty?
could you ping...please
Where are the Mexican Federales?
I thought that said "deregulated" at first. Need more coffee, come on pot, finish brewing.
What does WOD in the keywords mean?
Mexican Federales are corupt.....
War On Drugs
ping
I think they *claim* to have a gun ban, also....
No, but it's getting there awfully fast.
The Mexicans routinely hunt down and slaughter Guatamalans, Costa Ricans, etc...who cross their southern border. They don't want people from other countries to cross our border and take jobs away from them.
"About 8 p.m. Tuesday, gunmen inside a state prison in Nuevo Laredo executed convicted trafficker Omar Ortega, 45, local authorities said. He had been playing tennis when he was shot in the head, said a city official. Additional details were not available."
Tennis and gunmen inside the prison..What a country!
ping pong
Southern Border Ping!
Enemy fire from the otherside of the border...Officer Rodriguez gets it
imo
The running gun battle at the border was between drug bangers and the government.
They seem to have just about the same number of drug bangers and police/soldiers almost every time there's a fight.
Mexico is corrupt from the bottom to the top. Stop illegal immigration NOW.
President Bush told Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday that he would keep pushing for more lenient immigration laws ... "You've got my pledge - I'll continue working on it," Bush told Fox during a joint news conference here at Baylor University. ... "I'm against vigilantes," Bush said. "That's why you got a border patrol, and they ought to be in charge of enforcing the border."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369202/posts
Smooch, smooch, kiss, kiss.
Another day at the border.
FOX has has no control of his country. Like Castro, he'd like to CONTINUE to send all the scum across the border and it looks like Bush* might be willing to help him.
* I've always been a big George Bush supporter. But on immigration he has not done his job. Plus, as we see from the fact that he cannot do anything to stop a woman from being killed in Florida, contrary to what some believe the president of the US is not the most powerful man in the world. Sometimes he's less powerful than some pissant judge.
Gunmen inside the prison, 'convicted (drug) trafficker' playing tennis... now there is a justice system to be proud of!
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