Thread: Napolitano: Mexico border violence reduced

Napolitano: Mexico border violence reduced
Wed May 6, 2009 2:37pm EDT


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The drug violence on the Mexico border has been reduced as a result of the thousands of troops that President Felipe Calderon sent to Ciudad Juarez, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday.

Turf wars between rival drug cartels are threatening stability in Mexico where 6,300 people were killed last year due to drug violence, which has started to spill over into the United States.

Napolitano said the Mexican troops sent to Juarez were having an impact. "Yes we have seen a reduction in violence," she told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

But the question remained, "how long can it be sustained?" she said.

Last month, Monte Alejandro Rubido, who recently joined Calderon's National Security Council as a technical director, told the Mexican daily El Universal that Mexico will keep its army on the streets to quash drug cartels until at least 2013.

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Sandra Maler)
http://www.reuters.com/article/domestic ... mesticNews

Could it be that there has been an "Appalachin style" conference between the drug cartels? Time to stop killing each other, but work together to kill Americans and Mexican federales? Better for commerce, IMO.
This woman has got to go. She undoubtedly again has no clue what she is talking about.

My first thought was, "yeah, the violence has moved to Phoenix."

Obviously Ms. Napolitano doesn't keep abreast of important DHS information or else she would be aware of the fact that the Mexican Attorney General's office released the following statement:

"Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the reputed head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, has instructed associates to use deadly force north of the border to protect trafficking operations"

Reference LA Times article posted by cvangel:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-155498.html

If you believe this story I have some nice swamp land in Florida I can sell you.

Secretary Napolitano has absolutely no credibility with me. IMO, anything said by her should be taken with a grain of salt.