| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2009 
Mexico Police Chief, 7 Others Killed in Drug Violence
 Agence France-Presse
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| | Policemen stand near a crime scene where a police chief was killed by gunmen in Cardenas, Mexico. (Reuters/Luis Lopez) | |
Ciudad Juarez – Eight people, including a deputy police chief and two officers, were killed in drug related violence in two cities on Mexico's border with the United States, authorities said.
In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city - located across the border from El Paso, Texas - the deputy police chief and two officers were ambushed and killed in their patrol car by gunmen, the mayor's office said.
In Reynosa, also on the US border near the Gulf of Mexico, five presumed drug traffickers were killed in a four-hour shootout with police on the city's streets. Four police officers and three civilians were also wounded in the gunfight, Tamaulipa state authorities said.
Ciudad Juarez and Reynosa are located in the most violent corridor of Mexico, where rival drug cartels are fighting a bloody war to control drug routes to the United States, the world's biggest consumer of cocaine.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday asked Washington to enact "firm" measures against weapons trafficking from the United States to Mexico that is largely run by the drug cartels.
Some 5,300 people were murdered throughout Mexico in 2008, according to official figures, despite a government crackdown that saw the deployment of nearly 36,000 troops. |
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