Posted on 07/29/2005 5:10:41 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Fallujah on the Rio Grand.
sure it wasn't in Camden, NJ ?
And of course, putting our military on the border would be racist.
NL Ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
Time to send in General Pershing !
wow!!!
Pretty serious firepower from a country that doesn't allow citizens to own guns.
Ask the people of Nuevo Laredo pre-NAFTA what they think of NAFTA now. :/
SotB ping
I'm curious, how does NAFTA figure into this violence that is Nuevo Laredo? I'm thinking it has far more to do with drug lords and their attempt to take over Nuevo Laredo. Drug trafficking is not on the NAFTA agenda (at least I hope not!)
Free trade doesn't apply to gun fire.
July 29, 2005, 4:41PM
Drug cartels battle it out in Nuevo Laredo
Reuters News Service
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- Rival drug cartel gunmen fired bazookas, tossed hand grenades and raked each other with machine gun fire in a battle at a home near the U.S. border, police said today.
The battle erupted late Thursday when a squad of about 30 masked men opened fire on a suspected drug cartel safe house on a residential street in Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, blasting off its doors and strafing the facade with bullets.
Police and witnesses said six men trapped in the house returned fire in a gun battle that raged for 20 minutes, littering the street with spent cartridges and sending neighbors diving for cover, although no one was killed. Witnesses said at least three bazooka rounds were fired.
"I grabbed my daughter tight ... and we hid under the bed until the explosions stopped," one neighbor, who identified himself as Carlos, told Reuters as he gazed at the blasted facade of the single-story house.
Nuevo Laredo is a key hub for trade in goods and illegal drugs bound for Texas. It is currently in the grip of a war between powerful drug cartels seeking control of lucrative cocaine, marijuana and amphetamine smuggling routes.
At least 79 people, including 18 police officers, have been shot to death in the city this year in the battle between powerful and well-armed gangs from the western state of Sinaloa and the local Gulf cartel.
The U.S. State Department issued two warnings to American citizens traveling to Mexico this year. The caution was repeated this week by U.S. ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza, who singled out Nuevo Laredo as a crime black spot.
The sun-blasted city of 330,000 people has long been notorious for drug crime and kidnappings and last month suspected cartel hitmen killed the city's new police chief just hours after he was sworn in.
The government sent troops and federal police to take over Nuevo Laredo in the following days, although more than 20 people have since been shot dead.
The city's entire police force was suspended for investigations into the links between local police and the drug gangs. Officers from the purged municipal force only returned to duty this week, decked out in new black-and-white uniforms to distance them from their graft-tainted predecessors.
I would hope that GW Inc is approaching this problem with the same degree of paitence, accuracy and breath control that the rest of us will .....
......Before the violence spirals out of control, as it has in Colombia as a result of similar policies, Mr. Crespo said, Mexico should go back to pretending to fight an unwinnable war rather than fighting it in earnest.
"If the United States is not going to legalize drugs, then Mexico has to come to terms with the narcos," he said. "There were agreements in the past to let 80 percent of the drugs through, to allow some seizures for the Americans and for the media, and there was a lot less violence."
Mr. Fox said recently that is not an option......
....."Despite its intense law enforcement efforts, Mexico is the leading transit country for cocaine and a major producer of heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana destined for U.S. markets," said the 2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.
Further, it acknowledged: "As a result of the huge traffic in drugs, Mexican criminal organizations dominate operations, controlling most of the thirteen primary drug distribution centers in the U.S. The violence of warring Mexican cartels has spilled over the border from Mexico to U.S. sites on the other side." ......
Mexico debates stepped-up drug war .. Click the link for the complete article.
Bbbbut these are just poor migrant daddies coming across the Rio Grande in order to feed their poor innocent starving children back home...
This is both sick and sad.
GW Inc. is not affected by illegal immigration. The wealthy and privileged elite have fences, electronic security, armored chauffeured driven limos and guards.
They simply don't care.
They don't have to go to a 7-11 that has 50 illegal alien criminals in the parking lot. Somebody else goes to the hardware store, buys the parts and fixes their busted toilets. Others, legal citizens mow their yards. They don't send their children to illegal alien criminal infested schools where spanish is the dominate language.
None of them care.
Guns; do we bury them or dig them up?
A MAJOR DRUG ROUTE....
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