Thread: Gunmen in Mexico kill 17 as FIFA tournament opens

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Gunmen in Mexico kill 17 as FIFA tournament opens

MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 17 people were killed in a string of attacks in Mexico, authorities said Sunday, including a shooting at a bar in Monterrey just hours after the opening of soccer's Under-17 World Cup.

Gunmen stormed the bar in Mexico's third largest city late Saturday and "executed three people," wounded another, and kidnapped a security guard at the bar who was later found dead, an official of Nuevo Leon state's investigation agency told AFP.

Four other people, 18-25 years old, were killed Sunday morning in Guadalupe, a city adjacent to Monterrey.

"The victims were gathering in front of one of their homes when armed men showed up in several vehicles and shot them," the official said.

Monterrey is one of the host cities for FIFA's Under-17 football tournament and it held two matches on its opening day Saturday: France-Argentina and Japan-Jamaica.

The relatively prosperous industrial hub of northern Mexico, home to several foreign companies, was until recently considered a near-safe haven as drug violence increased in many parts of the country.

But a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas has spilled into the state in less than two years, producing daylight shootouts, grenade attacks and a climate of fear.

Thirty-three violent killings were recorded in and around Monterrey, an area of some four million, on Wednesday, making it the area's most violent day in recent history.

Another nine people meanwhile were killed in the western state of Michoacan, whose bodies were found early Sunday, authorities said, also blaming drug cartel-related violence there.

Mexico is in the grip of a brutal wave of largely drug-related violence that has killed some 37,000 people since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

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Michelle Obama Declares It Is Safe To Travel To Mexico

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Michelle Obama Declares it Safe to Travel to Mexico Here is video of First Lady Michelle Obama in an interview from Mexico City, where she declared it to be safe to travel to Mexico. She said she would encourage Americans to come to Mexico. This despite the fact that 30,000 people have been MURDERED in drug violence in Mexico in the last three years.

All the while the border continues to be a welcome mat for any one of them........................Meanwhile Obozo and Crappolian are cozy in their heavily secured homes where entitlement untouchable elites remain safe and secure when it's brought to their attention. Those are the ones we elected after they swore to look after and protect United States from invasion. Looks like they and all the other traitors spread out accross our Country LOVE violence and mayhem they subject us to. Talk about being one taco short of a combination plate!

17 there are more than this reported everyday.Thats all you here is killings all over mexico and its spilling over in U.S.Dang its got to stop.The only way to stop it here is to deport more and strenghthen border.In mexico the law enforcement has to stop the drug cartel and gangs.