Family values don't stop at the border ay El Presidente?
Posted on 03/29/2008 7:53:34 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
CAMARGO, Mexico – The ranch near this border community is isolated, desolate and laced by arroyos – an ideal place, experts say, for training drug cartel assassins.
Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in at least six such locations in northern Tamaulipas and Nuevo León states, some within a few miles of the Texas border, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities and the printed testimony of five protected witnesses who were trained in the camps.
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The camps near the Texas border and at other locations in Mexico are used to train cartel recruits – ranging from Mexican army deserters to American teenagers – who then carry out killings and other cartel assignments on both sides of the border, authorities say.
"Traffickers go to great lengths to prepare themselves for battle," said a senior U.S. anti-narcotics official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Part of that preparation is live firing ranges and combat training courses. ... And that's not something that we have seen before."
Many of the camps are temporary, used for a time and then abandoned or used intermittently. Others are hidden on private land behind locked gates and have more permanent facilities, the officials said.
The land is seldom held in the name of known cartel members but is usually purchased through someone fronting for a cartel, authorities said. Sometimes "mobile" training camps are conducted on private land without the owner's consent.
The camps include locations in Mexico's interior, but U.S. law enforcement officials said they were acutely concerned about those located along the 1,000-mile-long Texas-Mexico border.
"As a Texan I find it offensive that they train in military-style camps just across the Texas border," said a senior law enforcement official and expert in weapons trafficking,...
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School of the Americas... I’m telling you, the blowback from that little experiment is going to make Operation Cyclone look like an “oops.”
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Coming to America if the Open Borders advocates have their way.
Family values don't stop at the border ay El Presidente?
There not training camps, there just training regular ordinary folks to come across the border to mow our lawns and paint our houses.
/extreme sarcasm
And where are the DEA Special Ops forces while all this is going on? Sitting on their hands because Bozobrain in The White House is more concerned about “our relations with our friends in Mexico” than in protecting Americans, his sworn oath.
The camps are cultural export centers.
The spokesman for the attorney general’s office, Fernando Castillo said, “These are more informal places used for target shooting and for physical exercising.”
although I think that Bush has served this country to the best of his abilities, I agree that politicians often care more about kissing collective foreign butt that the protection of American citizens
Where is Black Jack Pershing when we need him?
Or maybe a few dozen old Pershing Tanks or a handful of Pershing Missiles
Bush should hire a consultant. A general from Turkey would be a good choice.
Bad border news ping
I know that's a quote from the article, but I can't tell for certain how many different places are being described. I think it needs fewer commas and more semi-colons. :).
With Jorge’s stamp of approval.
Preparing for the “Mayday” celebrations, are they?
I had to read that a few times to understand that China is a small town in nuevo Leon.
5, I think.
Back in the 1800s the same area was controlled by a rustling cartel. A company of Texas Rangers invaded Mexico and went to the ranch headquarters and attacked several hundred rustlers.
They refused to retreat from Mexico when ordered to by the US authorities backed up by the U.S. Army.
It created an international incident.
Those were the days.
I figured that out, although not the state. Just looked it up, it's about 60 miles (100 km) southwest of McAllen Texas.
There is a also a town called China in Campeche state (far south on the Yucatan peninsula)
There is also a China in Texas, about 10-15 miles west of Beaumont on US 90.
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