Posted on 12/01/2019 7:01:41 AM PST by Levy78
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
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Or Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and a supporting cast.
when will mexico wise up. The Policia take the bribes and make themselves a target.
Something need to be done.
They are a major threat to the US in more ways than one.
Nah, Sly Stallone’s Rambo would take care of it on his own.
I think it’s time for the 1st armored division to roll across the border...
only 2 separate areas or 20% of mexico are government controlled. Mexico is the cartels.
Which cartels side were the police on?
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/at-least-14-dead-in-mexico-gunbattle-near-texas-border/
I see you are a realist about Mexico.
Is this not a clear and present danger?
Alls ya gotta do is ask.
We will rain down fire and brimstone on all the bad guys you point at.
Its not really that hard being on the winning side.
Remember, the Mexican president and his staff are angry the US labelled the Cartels as terrorists.............
29,414 homicides so far in 2019. Thank goodness Mexico has strict gun laws.
Remember, the Mexican president and his staff are angry the US labelled the Cartels as terrorists.............
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With my cynicism going off full bore, who is to say it is not CIA operatives posing as cartel members to get the Mexican Government’s attention?
Wouldn’t be the first time that ‘we’ financed and led a revolt against another government.....
Honestly don't know.
“Which cartels side were the police on?”
The wrong one?
Read my tagline.
I suspect that cartels are moving to control new territory along the border, as barrier is being built in the previously most valuable stretches.
The three biggest corridors for illegal traffic - San Diego, the Rio Grande Valley and Yuma - will all be substantially closed by the end of next year, with Trump-style super barrier system. The cartels must prepare new routes, where the terrain allows.
The more than 200 mile unfenced gap along the Rio Grande in Texas, between Falcon Lake (South of Laredo) and Box Canyon (just North of Del Rio), is the biggest and best open stretch of border for smuggling left in Texas after the Rio Grande Valley gets closed off - arguably it will then be the best stretch of the whole US/Mexico border for illegal traffic, after the currently funded barrier building is finished (end of 2020).
52 miles of that stretch already has this year’s money budgeted against it (but that contract has not yet been awarded).
The attack described in this article, in Villa Union, Coahuila; is on the main highway leading to the Northern edge of where that barrier will run (52 miles running North from the Colombia Laredo Port of Entry).
This attack seems like a cartel (CDN) coming into a small town to take over. The big battles will erupt when cartels go against each other, for the biggest new routes.
When that happened before in Nuevo Laredo, the local police were disbanded an effective state of martial law persisted for years.
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