| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2008 
Cartels Retaliate by Killing Sonoran Police Commander
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| | A sign reading "We come to help you", in allusion to the Mexican Army reinforcment operation, hangs in Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, north Mexico. Suspected drug-related violence left 13 dead, including two women, in separate incidents in Mexico's violent northern Chihuahua state, local authorities said last week. (AFP/Alfredo Estrella) | | |
A shooting at the Marques de Cima hotel in Nogales, Sonora left the Sonoran police commander dead and wounded four other officers.
A News 4 source believes the shooting is in retaliation for the gun battle that occured 2 weeks ago in which Sonoran Police killed 10 members of the drug cartels after a wild police chase through the streets of Nogales, Sonora.
The escalating violence that has occured between Mexican police and the drug cartels caused the U.S. State Department to issue a travel alert to Mexico on October 18th.
"Mexican drug cartels are engaged in an increasingly violent fight for control of narcotics trafficking routes along the U.S. - Mexico border in an apparent response to the Government of Mexico's initiatives to crack down on narco-trafficking organizations," says the travel alert.
"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have taken on the characteristics of small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and, on occasion, grenades. Firefights have taken place in many towns and cities across Mexico but particularly in northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez," says the travel alert. |
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