Drug Cartel Deaths, Nuevo Laredo
John W. Slagle
March 08, 2006
The U.S. State Department Department?s Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement Affairs along with the Department of Defense has sent more than 376 Million dollars to Mexico over the past decade. The pupose was to train, assist,
supply equipment to the Mexican military and law enforcement to combat narcotics or human smugglers. The money was to be used to guard against terrorists and to protect the United States Southern Border. The allocation which will be $50 million in 2006 funds helicopters, all terrain vehicles, computers, radio communication, detection equipment and counter-intelligence training. The budget also provides grants, loans to purchase U.S. produced defense equipment and weapons.
March 7, 2006 Suspected drug traffickers killed a state police commander and another officer Tuesday in a daylight ambush on a highway, the latest in a wave of violence near Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Nuevo Laredo is located south of the border from Laredo, Texas.
State preventative police Cmdr. Victor Berrones Lara, 46, and officer Norberto Vasquez Eguia, 24, died from gunshot wounds suffered in the shooting. Two other officers in the same vehicle, Jos?lata and Jos?anchez, were hospitalized with minor injuries, said a spokesman for the agency, Hector Walle. About a mile south of the ambush site, investigators found an armored Ford pickup abandoned in a ditch, two state officials said in separate interviews. Both spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Inside the truck, officers found two assault rifles ? an AK-47 and an AR-15 ? with about 1,700 rounds of ammunition. A 9-mm Beretta handgun, black police-style uniforms and military fatigues without insignia also were found.
Also Tuesday, two men were found shot to death along a dirt road outside Nuevo Laredo.
The men, who hadn't been identified, were handcuffed and bore signs of torture, police said. In another attack, gunmen shot and killed a man in an SUV. Tuesday's shootings brought the number of killings to more than 40 this year ? the majority drug related.
Threats phoned to news organizations produced an effective blackout on coverage, several journalists said. Most Nuevo Laredo police reporters got a call by phone or radio after the police shooting which contained the warning, ?N?e acercen? ? ?Don't even come close? ? said several journalists who asked not to be identified.
Sources
Mariano Castillo
Express-News Border Bureau
State Dept.web
supply equipment to the Mexican military and law enforcement to combat narcotics or human smugglers. The money was to be used to guard against terrorists and to protect the United States Southern Border. The allocation which will be $50 million in 2006 funds helicopters, all terrain vehicles, computers, radio communication, detection equipment and counter-intelligence training. The budget also provides grants, loans to purchase U.S. produced defense equipment and weapons.
March 7, 2006 Suspected drug traffickers killed a state police commander and another officer Tuesday in a daylight ambush on a highway, the latest in a wave of violence near Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Nuevo Laredo is located south of the border from Laredo, Texas.
State preventative police Cmdr. Victor Berrones Lara, 46, and officer Norberto Vasquez Eguia, 24, died from gunshot wounds suffered in the shooting. Two other officers in the same vehicle, Jos?lata and Jos?anchez, were hospitalized with minor injuries, said a spokesman for the agency, Hector Walle. About a mile south of the ambush site, investigators found an armored Ford pickup abandoned in a ditch, two state officials said in separate interviews. Both spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Inside the truck, officers found two assault rifles ? an AK-47 and an AR-15 ? with about 1,700 rounds of ammunition. A 9-mm Beretta handgun, black police-style uniforms and military fatigues without insignia also were found.
Also Tuesday, two men were found shot to death along a dirt road outside Nuevo Laredo.
The men, who hadn't been identified, were handcuffed and bore signs of torture, police said. In another attack, gunmen shot and killed a man in an SUV. Tuesday's shootings brought the number of killings to more than 40 this year ? the majority drug related.
Threats phoned to news organizations produced an effective blackout on coverage, several journalists said. Most Nuevo Laredo police reporters got a call by phone or radio after the police shooting which contained the warning, ?N?e acercen? ? ?Don't even come close? ? said several journalists who asked not to be identified.
Sources
Mariano Castillo
Express-News Border Bureau
State Dept.web
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