Posted on 06/22/2021 9:54:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead.
While this city across the border from McAllen, Texas is used to cartel violence as a key trafficking point, the 14 victims in Saturday’s attacks appeared to be what Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca called “innocent citizens” rather than members of one gang killed by a rival...
The attacks took place in several neighborhoods in eastern Reynosa, according to the Tamaulipas state agency that coordinates security forces, and sparked a deployment of the military, National Guard and state police across the city. Images posted on social media showed bodies in the streets...
...the area’s criminal activity has long been dominated by the Gulf Cartel and there have been fractures within that group. Experts say there has been an internal struggle within the group since 2017 to control key territories for drug and human trafficking. Apparently, one cell from a nearby town may have entered Reynosa to carry out the attacks...
Security is one of the great challenges facing the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He has assured Mexicans that he is fighting the root causes of the violence and since the beginning of his administration in December 2018, he has advocated “hugs, not bullets” in dealing with criminals.
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I thought that Cackles had the border under control. Well, perhaps she needs to visit Europe, first.
IOW, just another day along the border.
Why do you think President Obrador was less than welcoming to Kamala Harris? He’s a socialist but doesn’t like cartels taking over his country.
Mexico sucks.
This has happened in the past, whenever the border becomes easier to cross.
There is so much money to be made that the gangs get greedy and try to grab the whole enchilada (no pun intended).
They are starting to war against each other to control the most profitable areas, just like prohibition era gangsters in Chicago and drug gangs in Baltimore once did.
The root cause of the violence is USA’s druggies. Someone was decapitated so some POS could snort some crap up his nose.
In the late 90s I used to take church youth groups across the border to Reynosa to help orphanages and street evangelism with our Mexican brothers. We quit because it was getting too dangerous. Drug Lords run the area…
The only solution to the Mexican Border problem is invasion and conquest of Mexico. Annex it; make it a territory; exterminate the cartels and make it suitable for the general population.
Don’t you mean Chicago?
Most sensible post of the day! Help those nice people.
This seems to be a classic terror (actual terror) attack to soften the city up for direct of thinly indirect control.
“In the late 90s”...
Clinton era.
Democrat control does not just screw up the USA - it is bad for the whole World.
Those Mexican cartels were lined up for a serious beating in a second Trump term - a lot of groundwork had been laid.
Now they are running wild.
Those “To whom it may concern” rounds....
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