Thread: Mexico police commander shot dead on U.S. border

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Mexico police commander shot dead on U.S. border
Thu Jun 2, 2005 02:47 PM ET

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Mexican police commander in front of his young daughter on Thursday, the second attack on a senior officer in this violent city on the U.S. border in two days.

Municipal police commander Enrique Cardenas was murdered outside his house as he left to drive his daughter to a primary school in the city, which lies south of Laredo, Texas, a police spokeswoman told Reuters.

The attack came a day after gunmen in a moving car ambushed and wounded another local police commander, Samuel Alvarado, as he drove through the city center.

Nuevo Laredo is a major transit point for both legitimate trade goods and narcotics entering the United States, and it is in the grip of an all-out war between rival drug gangs.

At least 57 people, including six police officers, have been murdered in the city this year as traffickers from western Sinaloa state and a local cartel have battled for control of the lucrative cross-border trade in cocaine and marijuana.

Local rights groups say more than 40 of the killings showed signs of being drug trade related -- either carried out in an ambush, or with a trademark execution-style shot to the back of the head.

The State Department issued two travel alerts on the city this year, warning that drug-related violence was getting out of hand in border cities. The alerts prompted Mexico's government to tell Washington to stay out of its affairs.

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I wouldn't set foot in that damnable country if my life depended on it.

These are the "migrants" that want to come here. When they come, I can envision firing squads in every town in America. When one of these weasels is caught, line him up, light him up.

Enough is enough.