20 dead in Mexico drug attacks
CIUDAD JUAREZ —
Twenty died in the latest suspected Mexican drug attacks, including a U.S. citizen and three decapitations, officials said Friday, hours after U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to help Mexico fight violent cartels.
More than 7,000 people have been killed since the start of last year in clashes between Mexican cartels and security forces, amid a military crackdown involving tens of thousands of troops.
In the latest violence, a carload of gunmen shot dead a 32-year U.S. citizen as he entered a house in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez overnight Thursday, the deputy state attorney general’s office said Friday.
Police found another five bullet-riddled male bodies near a road in the same northern state of Chihuahua, the attorney general’s office said.
Police found four other bodies in the state, including that of a woman in a car with Texas license plates in Ciudad Juarez.
The government recently sent an extra 5,000 troops to that volatile border city, where more than 1,600 alone died in 2008.
In another hotspot, police found four bodies, three of which were decapitated, in a village in western Michoacan state, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
Six tortured male bodies were found in two other villages, including two carrying messages from the powerful La Familia cartel to the Zetas, hitmen for the Gulf cartel.
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adaydream
This is a similar story day after day and some posters believe this is just a media macufactured crisis.
I think your manufactured crisis has been a full blown crisis. It's more than a crisis, it's a national disaster. < :-)
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teleprompter
We need a wall between us. It's that simple.
Mexico is more dangerous than Iraq.
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skipthesong
Mexico is more dangerous than Iraq." Yeah, but many people believe its the US's fault.
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aj2o1
The US contributes to the problem with gun sales and consumer demand for drugs.
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teleprompter
It's America's fault? And what - Mexicans do not possess free will or the capacity for independent thought?
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adaydream
It's not the US's fault. It's the Americans who are making money off the Mexican situation. It's not American's fault, but it's Americans who are shipping guns down to Mexico that are being used.
But because we have Americans who don't care who gets shot or who buys their guns or where their guns go.
Maybe if they start locking up a few gun dealers, gun wholesale dealers and gun runners then maybe we can start making a difference.
Don't worry. The NRA will help I'm sure. Right.... < :-)
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Badsey
American people need to donate as many guns to the Mexican people as possible. -->That way the populace and cartels can fight it out and establish a new Obama democracy. Fight now for you future security. As many guns as possible must be allowed into Mexico.
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elbudamexicano
Thanks to the NRA(bunch of KKK without the pillow cases over their heads) are having a great time and laughing all the way to the bank! Let stupid Mexicans kill each other off with good Made in the USA guns, rifles, bazookas, hand grenades etc..Poison them inner city ghetto kids (and a few of your own white kids in the suburbs too) but mostly enjoy making hand over fist,cry about the 2nd Amendment bs, and control Mexico's population while getting high on the best marijuana/cocaine/heroine/speed your US dollar can buy, and how cares about 20 measly Mexicans killing each other right?
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