Posted on 11/30/2007 12:30:46 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
RIO BRAVO — Assailants wielding automatic weapons on Thursday shot and killed the former mayor of a Mexican border city and five companions outside a restaurant, local media reported.
Juan Guajardo, a career politician and the former mayor of the Rio Bravo, a city across the Texas border from Mercedes, was arriving at a restaurant in downtown Rio Bravo when the gunmen opened fire, killing him, his brother, two bodyguards, his driver and an unidentified man, the government news agency Notimex reported.
Officials at the attorney general's office in Tamaulipas state, where Rio Bravo is located, did not return calls.
Notimex reported that Guajardo, who was Rio Bravo's mayor during two terms and lost a re-election bid this year, was attacked earlier this year by gunmen who he told federal authorities were part of the Zetas, a group of Gulf cartel enforcers that includes former soldiers.
Tamaulipas state, on the border with Texas, has been plagued by drug-related killings. The state is the home base for the Gulf cartel.
Secure the border, build the fence!!!
Los Zetas are ex-Army Special forces, regular troopers, police agents and common criminals in the drug trafficking business. Some received special-forces training under the U.S. Army at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, GA.
Amazing...our neighbors the zetas are more dangerous than these dudes...
www.zetatalk.com/
RIP.
Zetas ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
This wouldn’t have happened were the Duke and Robert Mitchum still alive.
What a cesspool. Mexico is the last country we should be drawing close to and promoting as a partner. The place is a lost cause
We had requests for Texas Minutemen to conduct border watch operations in that area in Sept., 2006. We took one look, nope, no way we were going to hazard the volunteers in there. If you think Laredo is bad, Rio Bravo is much worse. Sheriff Deputies don't even go up in there much.
The DEA is tougher than any drug dealers from Mexico!! Just ask any nice doctor in the USA!!
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