Posted on 12/01/2010 4:02:36 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY - Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the northeast along the U.S. border, the government said Wednesday.
The goal of "Coordinated Operation Northeast" is to reinforce government authority in the two states most heavily affected by a surge in violence following a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, federal police spokesman Alejandro Poire said.
The new effort also aims to keep the two cartels from regrouping after the takedown of key leaders, he said. But in a media briefing with all federal security officials and governors of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, the affected states, Poire provided no details or numbers of reinforcements and answered no questions.
Intense cartel violence has plagued the industrial city of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon and all of Tamaulipas, where cartel firefights and violence this month sent residents fleeing the once-picturesque tourist town of Ciudad Mier and where 72 migrants were found slaughtered earlier this year.
Tamaulipas shares 560 miles (900 kilometers) of Texas border, with some of the busiest border crossings in the world - Nuevo Laredo across from Laredo, Reynosa across from McAllen and Matamoros across from Brownsville.
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The Mexican War Machine...
All I can say is, Mexico is doing more than our lousy govt. is.
“Coordinated Operation Northeast”
CON?
Good name for it.
Did they indicate which side the troops will be fighting for?
Over 28,000 people have been killed in the Mexican Drug War during the past 4 years.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Is that all?
“Over 28,000 people have been killed in the Mexican Drug War during the past 4 years.”
That is only counting victims whose bodies have been found. God only knows how many bodies have been disolved in acid or dumped down mineshafts.
Shoot, in that case we can move ALL of our border patrol up to the Canadian border.
Didn't Eisenhower warn us about about Mexico's military industrial complex?
I think it was Russia
Are they getting ready to invade ?
Or perhaps just take out a few drug lords being protected by their distributors ?
Hope they do not get a wrong address or a bad google map.
What Mexico is doing is destroying itself.
At least their troops can lock and load and all ours can do is watch from afar and report any illegals they see coming across the border illegally, to the border agents.
Maybe we could talk a fishing guide into chartering armed Adventure Trips on Falcon Lake?
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