.......... Rio Bravo? I've got a friend down there."
Posted on 01/22/2008 12:35:31 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
REYNOSA - Mexican military have surrounded the Reynosa Municipal Police Station, searching officers, vehicles and weapons.
Witnesses say the military surrounded the police station building around 7 a.m. today. More than 300 police officers across the city are being brought in to be searched, along with personal cars and police-issued weapons.
Officers at the city's precincts across the city are also being searched.
The military is undertaking similar operations today in Nuevo Laredo, Rio Bravo and Matamoros, according to press reports from Monterrey and Mexico City.
Military vehicles and personnel are blocking access to the station.
The raids come after weeks of violence has shocked citizens of the border cities as the Mexican military battles drug cartels.
The latest was three bodies found at the bottom of a canal in Reynosa. Police are investigating a link between drug gangs and those deaths.
Check back to brownsvilleherald.com as more information becomes available.
Where is REYNOSA?
.......... Rio Bravo? I've got a friend down there."
This is part of Calderón’s continuing efforts to stop police corruption. These operations have been going on for over a year.
across the river from Mc Allen
Reynosa, Tamaulipas Mexico
Down 115 across the river from McAllen.
Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico...Population approx. 500,000...is about 7 miles South of my house in McAllen, Texas.
Miguel Alemánand and Valle Hermoso too.
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Police are investigating links between drug cartels and deaths. Give me a break. In the words of Claude Rains (Casablanca), “Round up the Usual Suspects”.
Wow, what is going on in Mexico for the past few days? Looks like all out civil war breaking out on the border.
I might have stumbled across the border to and from Brownsville and passed out in Port Isabel once or five times.....or was that Los Fresnos?
Yeah, and McCain and Kennedy wanted to allow the gangs to organize up here.
Another reason McCain will never be President, and I fear Hitlery will.
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Indeed it does
Drug cartels and murder, in Mexico? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! 
Well, with the down turn in the US economy, many illegals will start heading back south, a lot not Mexican, but they will try to make it there versus El Salvador, etc. and the Mexican gov knows it needs to get a handle on the corruption quick as hopefully, the border will be much more secured quickly.
Partly. The Boys annoyed a few people when they murdered the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari in late 2004.
But the Mexican Army just scored this last Sunday with the capture of Alfredo Mochomo Beltrán Leyva in the Sinaloa capital, Culiacán. A high-end lieutenant in the northern Mexican states for the cartel run by his cousin, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo Guzman.
Found with nearly a million dollars in cash when taken, he was both a bagman who paid off the cartel's little fingers in Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco and Nayarit, and directed at least two hit teams working in Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, and another in Sonora, across the US border from Arizona.
Whether the Army unit was in the pay of the Gulf cartel, which is based on the Texas-Mexico border, and has good ties to the Mexican military since their paramilitary Zetas are largely former or current Mexican military personnel is yet to be seen. But for now, expect more shootouts on and around both sides of the border, especially in Reynosa/Tijuana/Laredo, equalling or surpassing last year when around 2,500 people were killed in the drug shootouts.
And there are some real interesting connections to the Sinaloa Cowboys....
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I am afraid I share your cynicism. “Mexico” could be a synonym for “government corruption”.
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