Posted on 02/17/2009 5:06:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico – For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.
No town knows this better than Villa Ahumada, where the entire police force quit after 70 cartel hit men roared through last spring, killing the police chief, two officers and three townspeople.
Residents were left defenseless again last week when gunmen returned and kidnapped nine people, despite the soldiers manning checkpoints far outside town.
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Let’s make things zanier for our liberal anti-gun leftists and remind them that there is total gun control in Mexico.
Phoenix is the kidnapping capital in the US. Guess who is doing the kidnapping?
As an American I hate to say this, but martial law might be the only thing that can save Mexico. The only problem is they can’t trust their own army. That being said, something must big must be done at our southern border. Maybe our CIC can do some “border organizing”.
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