American Consulate Ciudad Juarez
Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said “outraged” him.
An American woman working at the consulate in Ciudad Juarez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, and her U.S. husband were fatally shot by suspected drug gang hitmen in broad daylight on Saturday as they left a consulate social event, U.S. and Mexican officials told Reuters.
A Mexican man married to another consulate employee was killed around the same time in another part of the city after he and his wife left the same event, a U.S. official said.
The U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said it was not clear if the victims had been specifically targeted, and the motive for the attacks was unknown.
Bloodshed has exploded in recent months in Ciudad Juarez as the head of the Juarez cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, fights off a bloody offensive by Mexico’s No. 1 fugitive drug lord, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, at the worst hotspot of Mexico’s three-year-old drug war.
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From AFP – ‘Hit teams’ attack US consular staff, families in Mexico
Suspected drug cartel “hit teams” gunned down an American consular employee and her husband in a Mexican border city and killed a co-worker’s Mexican husband in a separate attack, a US official said Sunday.
The victims two Americans and a Mexican came under fire in separate locations as they were driving Saturday through Ciudad Juarez after earlier attending the same social event, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The killings marked an ominous turn in the drug violence wracking northern Mexico, and prompted the State Department to announce that Americans working at six US consulates in the border area could send their families away.
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Time to stop ALL Americans from vacationing and visiting Mexico. The financial impact will put a noose around the Cartels. Then the Mexican Gov’t. can clean up their mess.
Its way past time to deal with these morons! If the mexican gov’t can’t or won’t deal with the problem then its time to deal with the marine way!
here we go again the us has its hands tied because of the ego of the mexican government!i think it is time we the usa start doing what we are supposed to do and that is to protect our people and ideals the mexican cartels are just a bunch of PUNKS with GUNS its time the us government started pressuring the government of Calderon to accept the help from the military,cia and their secret armies,national security administation, etc etc etc and eliminate the cartels and their gangs.send a volly of HE Drones into their houses. colateral damage!!!
Mexico’s President Calderón has been relentless in his effort to stop Drug Cartels from controlling Mexico and has helped U.S. law enforcement arrest drug-cartel members and stop illegal drugs going from Mexico to the U.S.
Concern: As Mexico’s drug-cartels escalate their violence, killing their own people and Americans, one has to consider if Mexico’s Drug Wars could get worse, more directly affecting U.S. border cities and America after Pres. Calderon leaves office in 2012. President Calderon is affiliated with Mexico’s National Action Party, the most conservative of the three major political parties. Should Mexico elect a President from another political party, there is no assurance Mexico’s next President will take the same action Pres. Calderon has to stem the influence and expansion of drug-cartels in Mexico or to mitigate Cartel violence on the U.S. Border.
It’s just a matter of time, before it spills into the border cities in the U.S.