700 troops and no one there to protect him? Hellloooooo????
A. By the rigor mortis.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The whole country needs an enema. Time for a great wall of the US south and north.................
How soon will it be before the same thing happens in an American city?
Ping!
America, See thy future - Ping.
When you look at this alongside Presidente Fox's forced comments on immigration, African Americans and the police murders in Denver I need to laugh. I have never understood why Americans still go on holiday in Mexico while they tolerate this level of crime and corruption domestically. Even the Mexican elite dont live there anymore for fear their kids will be grabbed. As I have said before "guess who owns the hotels" They are looking for assets to roll narco money into. Lets think......hmmm sell drugs take dollars build hotels take dollars. Send our poor North to take dollars and alleviate the domestic political problems as seen in Chiapas. And lets just say you were in trouble there would you feel the police could or would help you!
The US Marines could do it in short order. Of course, sorting out the bad guys from the good guys isn't really their schtick...
I remember once walking across the border from Laredo to Nuevo Laredo and being really struck by the difference. It was like traveling from Earth to Mars. One side green, the other brown. One side with nicely paved roads, the other with roads buckled and rutted. One side with well-dressed, well-fed children the other side with hungry children in tattered clothes. And on and on. Yet, the people on both sides were Mexicans ethnically. It was just the vagaries of politics and war that caused the amazing difference. The memory remains vivid today, many years after the experience.
Mexico sucks.
(Pssstt . . Nuevo Laredo is one of the major port of entry cities we have with Mexico - it is RIGHT ON THE (WORTHLESS) BORDER.)
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MONTERREY, Mexico — For weeks, no one applied for the Nuevo Laredo police chief job. Many saw it as a death sentence. But Alejandro Dominguez proudly took office on Wednesday, saying he wasn't afraid of anything. Nine hours later, he was ambushed and killed by gunmen who fired some three dozen times. Dominguez's violent death was the latest blow to Nuevo Laredo, a city across from Laredo, Texas, that has been crippled by a wave of drug violence. The city is on the front line of a turf battle between Mexico's two largest drug gangs, the Gulf and Juarez cartels. Since January, more than 60 people have been killed there, including several city police officers.
President Vicente Fox's administration sent in 700 soldiers and federal agents in March to try to restore law and order. Dominguez, a businessman who once worked at the federal Attorney General's office, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon, and promised to weed out corruption in the city. "I don't owe anybody anything. My duty is to the citizenry," he said. "I think those who should be afraid are those who have been compromised." After dark, a group of assailants opened fire as he climbed into his Ford Lobo outside the city's business chamber, which he led.
...and this is what we let into our country illegally every day of the week.
"Dominguez was targeted by a group of men who arrived in three dark Chevy Suburbans."
When SUV's go to the Dark Side.
First word - scary. I also think that the Mexican government is corrupt, at all levels, and this will be hard to change. When something like this happens within a few hours of swearing in the new chief, its more than just some drug ring. These guys are organized and connected. And incredibly bold!
You have to wonder why the drug rings didn't at least try to test the man with bribes, blackmail, etc. Just a thought, but what are the chances that he was already in with one gang, and the second gang whacked him. The man may have been truly honest (as stated in the article) and I shouldn't impugn the man, but it's a thought that I had. Why not test him? Is there a need to send such a strong message?
NL Police Chief Ping!
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So even though he was technically the 'police chief', could we still refer to his car as the 'Sheriff's Lobo'?
Another present courtesy of the sweet, hard working peasants to the South.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419360/posts
That's harsh. At least in Tijuana, they let the guys serve a while before they pop 'em.