Posted on 06/05/2008 1:59:39 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A husband and wife, both state police officers, were shot dead Wednesday while leaving their home in this Mexican border city where drug gangs have stepped up attacks against security forces.
Gabriel Padilla Perez's body was found at the entrance of his home in Ciudad Juarez, said Cesar Ramirez, a spokesman for the regional Attorney General's office. His wife, Claudia Tovar Carreon, was found dead on the sidewalk. The couple had two young children.
Ciudad Juarez, home base of the powerful Juarez drug cartel across from El Paso, Texas, has been among the hardest-hit cities in an explosion of violence across Mexico.
More than a dozen police officers have been killed in the city this year, including seven whose names had appeared on hit lists believed to have been distributed by the cartel. Others have resigned. Neither Padilla nor Tovar were on the lists.
All together, more than 200 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez.
The latest civilian victim was a 25-year-old pregnant woman killed while washing a car outside a shopping mall Tuesday. She was struck by a stray bullet when gunmen opened fire on another car nearby.
President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 troops across the country to wrest back territory from drug gangs, which have fought back with bold attacks. More than 450 police, soldiers, prosecutors or investigators have been killed since Calderon took office in 2006.
And the War on (some) Drugs continues to save lives. < / sarcasm>
I think the U.S. should totally piss of La Raza, go full force into Mexico, destroy the scumbags running the drug cartels, round up all the illegal criminals pushing drugs in the States, make them finish the fences on the border then shut them out!
Oh, sorry. I just woke up from a pleasant dream.
My prayers for the family.
Ping!
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It’s a worthless war. Only the criminal gangs and the law enforcement politicians want it. What does that tell us?
Anyone who advocates open borders with this piss hole is clinically insane. They are mismanaging their state run oil business so bad we won’t even get oil from these misfits in a few years
Ah, yes, Juarez. My wife and I plus her sister and bro-in-law took a one hour excursion there last October. That was enough. Not a lot of friendly people.
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