Posted on 03/07/2006 1:45:13 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, March 7 (Reuters) - Suspected drug hit men on Tuesday killed four policemen in a shootout in this crime-ridden Mexican city on the U.S. border, police and witnesses said.
One of the dead was the second-in-charge of a state police force sent to Nuevo Laredo last year by President Vicente Fox's government to help end a drug feud, the sources said.
The killings took place in broad daylight on a busy highway leading to the airport in Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.
The policemen and their attackers fought for 15 minutes in a shootout that spilled over into an auto dealership and left bodies strewn on the ground.
"There are a bunch of people wounded," a witness said.
More than 40 people have been killed in Nuevo Laredo this year in a struggle over smuggling routes between the local Gulf cartel and an alliance of drug traffickers from the western state of Sinaloa.
Mexico is a s**thole. It always was and always will be. Keep 'em out of America.
Amen!
They are all "on the take", from Vincente to the dirt bags doing the shooting.
But we need those hispanic Mexican workers.. / extreme sarcasm
I guess it would hurt "business" if there was a travel warning issued, hunh?
Nuevo Laredo sounds like the town in the movie "El Mariachi" ("Desperado" was the remake).
Think El Mariachi with more guns.
Unfortunately S. Reyes is running unopposed!
Not quite, Silvestre Reyes has an opponent in the Dem. primary and a Libertarian opponent, Gordon R. Strickland, in November.
And bigger guns, not to mention more money and organization
Nuevo Laredo is as out of control as, say, the Sunni Triangle in Iraq, and for a similar reason - street thugs have gained ascendancy.
The federales in Mexico have little interest in suppressing what is a totally criminal-dominated civil insurrection going on in their own country. Perhaps what we need now is a "Black Jack" Pershing to go down to Mexico and do a little cleaning out of this nest of thieves, drug runners, and bandits.
http://nuevolaredo.usconsulate.gov/
Had a Travel "Announcement" last year for Nuevo Laredo last year. Guess everything is just "peachy" there now!
These killings have been going on for years and years on the border. There are probably more drug related killings on the border than illegals dying in the desert crossing into the US.
Operation "Black Jack" Pershing!
Border goals of the administration:
Import poverty and crime on a daily basis.
I wonder if Fox and his gang is getting a cut of the drug profits.
yEP, LOOKS LIKE vICENTE HAS HIMSELF A LITTLE TERRORISM PROBLEM.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
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