Mexico sending 2,500 agents into troubled border town
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - 2500 soldiers and officers of the Confederation headquarters in the border town in an attempt zustopfen a bloody war, and the other has upset the authorities on both sides of the border.
The American raid, as a Senior law enforcement warned that the official position Juarez faces a long war of medication - Nuevo Laredo much more than in recent years - which slowly in the large side of the border in Texas.
“This operation Chihuahua” - the name of the State, the largest of Mexico, plunged against Texas and New Mexico - moving towards the restoration of law and order in a region that many say, if is anarchic. Nearly 200 people have been killed since 1 January this year in this city of 1.2 million euros, as the Sinaloa cartel tent, along Juarez cartel entrenched in power.
“In this battle, Chihuahua is not alone,” said Minister of the Interior, the Secretary General of Mexico Juan Camilo Mourino, who was accompanied by the secretary of national defense, prosecutor, the governor of Chihuahua, and Mayor of Ciudad Juarez. “In this struggle, the group did not in a position to force the government.”
The establishment of soldiers began Wednesday night and until Saturday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office Applause-up of the repression of the Mexican authorities on Thursday. “The president Calderon has its own operating system version of the increase in operations up or down, where it has over the border to take on gangs and drug cartels,” said the governor secretariat Press, Robert Black. “… It has its hands full, but they are the most aggressive efforts to clean the other side of the border, and that is a very good thing. ”
The state legislature awarded a course of last year an additional $ 55 million a year for beef and the criminal prosecution authorities in Texas along the border and to help with the aggression and violence from Mexico.
“We already have a stronger presence in Texas, upward and downward from El Paso to Brownsville,” said Black. “On this page, we are pleased, as chairman of the anvil Calderon’s Hammer.”
Chihuahua 2026 operation with 425 soldiers and officers of Confederation, most intelligence experts, investigators and forensic specialists. The goal is to provide all access points to and from the city, “said Defense Minister Mexico’s Guillermo Galvan Galvan.
In the hours following the start of the operation, soldiers, police in the Division of Communication, and the mayor said Jose Reyes Ferriz a cleanup of the police unit is underway. Starting from Monday, soldiers set up 46 control points throughout the city, including the international crossings leading to and from Texas and New Mexico. And the soldiers of the review on unregistered weapons and police cars to search for possible links with other agreements.
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora emphasized that the chaos in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and elsewhere - more than 5000 murders in Mexico in the past two years have been drug-related violence - this is not a sign of force cartel, but “a sign of the weakness of decomposition and decay. It will take some time until they exterminate. ”
About the border in El Paso, Special Agent in charge of John “Jack” Riley, the Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso office echoed these comments. In an interview before the raid was announced, Riley welcomed the collaboration with his Mexican colleague, relationships and asking ‘confidence levels, better than I have ever seen. ”
Riley warned that the battle in a Juarez is “a long time. There will be no winners or losers at any time soon.”
“They are not sharing pie,” he said. “Instead of this type of rackets, driven by greed, cut pie. In the process, they jäten. Unfortunately, this continues for a while and we are probably become a fallout.
The Texas Border Sheriff ‘Association welcomed the move by the Mexican government, but wondered about their effectiveness.
“We see no application of the increased presence thence to the advantage of reducing the level of violence in Juarez since the first of the year,” said spokesman Donald Rhey El Paso. “But our greatest concern is that the increased pressure can lead to a drift of violence on the United States. All our staff are very vigilant to ensure that this is not the case. ”
David Cuthbertson, the FBI’s special agent-in-charge in El Paso, said the Agency is one of the possible fallout.
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