Gunmen kill 13 in massacre at a party in Mexico

[The abyss]

Source: AP/yahoo

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments.

Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class Ciudad Juarez neighborhood late Friday and opened fire on about four dozen partygoers gathered for a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

The dead identified so far were 13 to 32 years old, including six women and girls, Chihuahua state Attorney General Carlos Salas told reporters at a news conference at the crime scene. The majority of the victims were high school students, a survivor said.


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By OLIVIA TORRES, Associated Press Writer. Olivia Torres, Associated Press Writer. – 23 mins ago

[Bobbieo]

1. Perhaps someone at the party was a son or daughter of an official

fighting the cartels.

When will this madness stop? I guess when we legalize drugs in both countries.

[demosincebirth]

2. When the Mexican gov declares martial law in certain areas and

starts to play tough and dirty.

[Bobbieo]

3. Are there enough honest people left in Mexico to declare and enforce martial law?

Wire-service reports estimate that Mexico’s drug lords employ over 100,000 soldiers — approximately as many as the Mexican army — and that the cartels’ wealth, intimidation, and influence extend to the highest echelons of law enforcement and government.

Where do the cartels get their unprecedented wealth and power? By trafficking in illicit drugs — primarily marijuana — over the border into the United States.

[demosincebirth]

4. Honest people always outnumber the dishonest.

[Bobbieo]

5. That may be true, but how many of them are in a position to declare and maintain martial law.?

[glinda]

6. Especially if they are laying on the couch eating cheetos or snorting up.

[corpseratemedia]

8. We trained their army in the War Against Drugs and they joined the cartels.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october232010/cartel-us-forces-tk.php

....<Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera.

“They were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons,” says Craig Deare, the former special forces commander who is now a professor at the US National Defence University.>...

[TheWraith]

7. The Mexican government is already effectively in a state of civil war with the cartels.

Unfortunately, the Mexican government is a big part of the problem. Guess where the cartels are getting their weaponry. Those mil-spec M4 automatic rifles in the SBR configuration with the underslung grenade launcher? The Mexican army has "lost" tens of thousands of them, some say hundreds of thousands, right into the hands of the cartels.