Mexican President Calderón rushes elite Red Beret's to violence torn Juarez
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
November 24, 2009
Mexican President Caldron has rushed elite troops to Juarez at the urgent request of the cities mayor and other leaders. The bloody war torn city of Juarez Mexico's death toll has surpassed 4,000 killed in the countries worst civil war in modern times.
No one is safe in Juarez according to a young man who must remain anonymous. "we cannot walk the streets in our city anymore do to fear of being shot, this is very unsafe city."
Juarez is a city of as many as 2 million just across the river from El Paso Texas. According to its only daily newspaper the Times points out that the latest attempts to bring law and order to Juárez include a noise campaign by the Autonomous University of Juárez and the deployment of an elite "Red Beret" paratroopers unit to the violence-ravaged city.
Jorge Quintana Silveyra, president of the Autonomous University of Juárez, called on the community to express its solidarity today with the university and demand peace and safety by honking car horns, blowing whistles, ringing bells, beating on pots and pans or using any instrument to make noise for a minute.
The university's Web site at www.uacj.mx said the campaign will last from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. During the past two years, three professors were killed and two female students disappeared, officials said.
Jose Alfonso Martinez Lujan, 38, an administrator and economics professor, became the latest victim when he was attacked Nov. 13 by an armed commando. No one has been arrested for the murder.
4,000 people have been killed in Juárez since December 2006 when the government declared war against Mexico's drug cartels.
Unofficial estimates say there have been around 6000 regular Mexican army troops operating in the city since they first landed over two years ago, despite the soldiers' presence murders have increased and the Mexican drug cartels are out of control and continues unabated. Just this past weekend alone, 11 people were murdered, including a 14-year-old boy and two women.
The Mexican government had just recently rushed 1000 solders to Michoacán where local police told the U.S. Border Fire Report that 1000 was not enough and the additional 5,500 will not be enough according to these same unidentified law enforcement officers "we are very much out numbered and out gunned." said an active Mexican solder.
This latest move included combat U.S. helicopters, night vision head gear and weapons and other new sophisticated combat equipment. This latest emergency action is believed a move to demonstrate a fierce show of resolve on the part of the Calderon administration.
A high ranking military officer told the U.S. Border Fire Report that he believes that the Mexican elite Red Berets is also dangerously under manned and the regular Mexican forces who are attempting to eradicate the Mexican drug cartels are woefully incompetent for the task at hand and will need special training from U.S. Special Forces.
This officer also predicted that moving troops from Juarez to Michoacán was not a good strategy and will at best only serve as a temporary stop gap measure and will only result in even more violence in the already most dangerous city in Mexico Juarez.
According to this same officer who wishes to remain anonymous said, "we are suffering from not having enough boots on the ground and by taking troops from one area to another will not work, just as it did not work for the U.S. in the Middle East. What the Mexican army must learn to do is have enough trained solders to not only take a town or real-estate but then be able to keep it by leaving enough troops in place to accomplish that end."
At that time Jose Rosa of Juarez said, "why is president Caldron taking troops from Juarez a main city on the border with the U.S. a big city that is very dangerous and totally out of control? Is it because Michoacán is his home town?" According to these same unidentified law enforcement officers "we are very much out numbered and out gunned." said an active Mexican solder.
The officer that earlier indicated that moving troops from Juarez to Michoacán was a bad idea and would not work has turned out to be correct.
Many believe the action of taking troops from Juarez to Michoacán enabled the cartels to become even more entranced in the city and as a result has made the army much weaker and more vulnerable to frequent attacks, and accounts for the up tic in civilian and Mexican military deaths and that is why President Caldron ordered the Red Berets into the city.
Many business leaders in Juarez and throughout the country want Mexican President Felipe Calderón to ask for peace keeping troops be sent to Mexico to help keep the residents safe, a growing number of Mexicans feel that the presidents efforts to keep the citizens of Mexico safe has failed. But, Calderón has said the United Nations is not needed.
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No one is safe in Juarez according to a young man who must remain anonymous. "we cannot walk the streets in our city anymore do to fear of being shot, this is very unsafe city."
Juarez is a city of as many as 2 million just across the river from El Paso Texas. According to its only daily newspaper the Times points out that the latest attempts to bring law and order to Juárez include a noise campaign by the Autonomous University of Juárez and the deployment of an elite "Red Beret" paratroopers unit to the violence-ravaged city.
Jorge Quintana Silveyra, president of the Autonomous University of Juárez, called on the community to express its solidarity today with the university and demand peace and safety by honking car horns, blowing whistles, ringing bells, beating on pots and pans or using any instrument to make noise for a minute.
The university's Web site at www.uacj.mx said the campaign will last from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. During the past two years, three professors were killed and two female students disappeared, officials said.
Jose Alfonso Martinez Lujan, 38, an administrator and economics professor, became the latest victim when he was attacked Nov. 13 by an armed commando. No one has been arrested for the murder.
4,000 people have been killed in Juárez since December 2006 when the government declared war against Mexico's drug cartels.
Unofficial estimates say there have been around 6000 regular Mexican army troops operating in the city since they first landed over two years ago, despite the soldiers' presence murders have increased and the Mexican drug cartels are out of control and continues unabated. Just this past weekend alone, 11 people were murdered, including a 14-year-old boy and two women.
The Mexican government had just recently rushed 1000 solders to Michoacán where local police told the U.S. Border Fire Report that 1000 was not enough and the additional 5,500 will not be enough according to these same unidentified law enforcement officers "we are very much out numbered and out gunned." said an active Mexican solder.
This latest move included combat U.S. helicopters, night vision head gear and weapons and other new sophisticated combat equipment. This latest emergency action is believed a move to demonstrate a fierce show of resolve on the part of the Calderon administration.
A high ranking military officer told the U.S. Border Fire Report that he believes that the Mexican elite Red Berets is also dangerously under manned and the regular Mexican forces who are attempting to eradicate the Mexican drug cartels are woefully incompetent for the task at hand and will need special training from U.S. Special Forces.
This officer also predicted that moving troops from Juarez to Michoacán was not a good strategy and will at best only serve as a temporary stop gap measure and will only result in even more violence in the already most dangerous city in Mexico Juarez.
According to this same officer who wishes to remain anonymous said, "we are suffering from not having enough boots on the ground and by taking troops from one area to another will not work, just as it did not work for the U.S. in the Middle East. What the Mexican army must learn to do is have enough trained solders to not only take a town or real-estate but then be able to keep it by leaving enough troops in place to accomplish that end."
At that time Jose Rosa of Juarez said, "why is president Caldron taking troops from Juarez a main city on the border with the U.S. a big city that is very dangerous and totally out of control? Is it because Michoacán is his home town?" According to these same unidentified law enforcement officers "we are very much out numbered and out gunned." said an active Mexican solder.
The officer that earlier indicated that moving troops from Juarez to Michoacán was a bad idea and would not work has turned out to be correct.
Many believe the action of taking troops from Juarez to Michoacán enabled the cartels to become even more entranced in the city and as a result has made the army much weaker and more vulnerable to frequent attacks, and accounts for the up tic in civilian and Mexican military deaths and that is why President Caldron ordered the Red Berets into the city.
Many business leaders in Juarez and throughout the country want Mexican President Felipe Calderón to ask for peace keeping troops be sent to Mexico to help keep the residents safe, a growing number of Mexicans feel that the presidents efforts to keep the citizens of Mexico safe has failed. But, Calderón has said the United Nations is not needed.
Related article click on or Google: Mexican forces being taken from Juarez to Michoacán