Thread: 8 people killed in northern Mexico

8 people killed in northern Mexico
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Fri Mar 30, 6:14 PM ET


MONTERREY, Mexico - Gunmen killed two police officers and six other people in less than 48 hours, the latest victims in a wave of drug-related violence in northern Mexico, police said Friday.

Investigators say the Sinaloa Cartel is fighting the Gulf Cartel for billion-dollar drug smuggling routes into the United States. The battle has led to beheadings, grenade attacks and execution-style killings across Mexico and the violence has taken a particularly heavy toll on police.

The latest killings were in the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, a hot spot for violence where 42 people have been killed since Jan. 1.

Deputy state Attorney General Aldo Fasci Zuazua said Thursday that the killings in Nuevo Leon state are part of a "national problem."

"Without a doubt this is part of a strategy by organized crime to terrorize the population," he said.

Nuevo Leon state officer Milton Pacheco, his son, Jesus, and an unidentified man were gunned down in a used car lot Thursday afternoon by assailants who arrived in three sport utility vehicles, police said.

Pacheco was the 16th officer killed this year in the Monterrey area, about 135 miles from McAllen, Texas.

On Wednesday, gunmen killed police Commander Ramiro Calderon as he was driving through a residential area of Monterrey.

Four hours after Pacheco's killing, assailants in a pickup truck shot at a group of men outside a house in the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza, killing three and injuring another three, one critically.

Alejandro Garza, director of state police investigations, said assailants fired more than 200 rounds at the men.

In a separate attack, gunmen killed an unidentified man while he drove in a pickup truck in the Monterrey suburb of Apodaca.

Nuevo Leon state authorities say drug smugglers may be moving to Monterrey from the border city of Nuevo Laredo to hide from rivals looking to kill them after a turf battle last year left hundreds of people dead in the city across from Laredo, Texas.
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This what the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, McCain and Flake want to fill our country with.

Over my dead body! That will I think be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charlesoakisland wrote:

This what the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, McCain and Flake want to fill our country with.

It certainly show their true colors which are shades of greed and corruption. All the more reason to stand up and fight harder!

Drug cartels leave Monterrey cops counting bodies

Web Posted: 03/30/2007 10:23 PM CDT

Sean Mattson
Express-News Mexico Correspondent

MONTERREY, Mexico — In one of the bloodiest seven-hour spans in the city's recent history, seven people died in three attacks linked to drug cartels.
At least one police officer died in Thursday's carnage, bringing to 16 the number of law enforcers slain in the area this year.

"Without a doubt, this is due to a concrete strategy ... by organized crime that consists of generating terror in the population and destabilizing governments," Aldo Fasci, deputy attorney general for the state of Nuevo León, said in referring to the violence across the country.

No arrests have been made.

Police found more than 200 spent .223- and .40-caliber bullet casings at the scene of Thursday's final shooting, in which three men died and another was gravely wounded while preparing a nighttime barbecue on a front porch.

Authorities hadn't identified those victims as of late Friday but said the attack was revenge for the day's first killing — a man police identified only by his supposed nickname.

"El Chucky" was shot multiple times while driving a brand new truck along a busy road in the city's northeast.

State Detective Milton Pacheco Quintanilla was killed Thursday at a used car lot he owned on Monterrey's west side. His son, Milton Pacheco Araiza, and a lot worker, José Castro Prado, also were killed.

A two-hour drive south of Laredo, Monterrey is an industrial powerhouse of some 3.6 million inhabitants. The city has long been a strategic warehousing and staging zone for cocaine and marijuana destined for the U.S. market, but until this year was largely unscathed by the drug violence.

It's believed the Sinaloa Cartel, run by fugitive drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, and the Gulf Cartel, famous for its armed wing of army deserters known as the Zetas, are fighting for control.

Thursday's killings bring to 42 the number of people killed in the state this year at the hands of organized criminals, according to media tallies.

Last week, two victims were found bound with duct tape and bearing written threats against the authorities pinned to their chests with ice picks.

One message promised, "This is only the beginning."

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