First damn time I’ve ever read about the Jaime Zapata story in any detail.
Incredible, on so many levels.
So we’ll never know if he was specifically targeted or a target of opportunity. It sounds like he was not trained for any kind of dangerous work. The fact that U.S. agents aren’t allowed to be armed in Mexico is an outrage.
So the standard Suburban can be switched to manual? This reminds me of something I heard somewhere: that people nowadays routinely drown or burn to death in their crashed cars because, the moment the electrical system goes dead the doors and windows freeze and only a fireman can pry it open.
“First damn time I’ve ever read about the Jaime Zapata story in any detail.”
You’re right. And it’s not just the Zapata story. Little press attention is going to Border Agent Brian Terry who was killed in Arizona, and U.S. consulate employee Lesley Ann Enriquez and her husband El Paso sheriff’s deputy Arthur Redelfs who were killed in Juarez, Mexico. Enriquez was pregnant, and her baby was lost in that shooting ambush.