Thousands of Mexican Troops Patrol Bordertown Streets of Juarez

March 31st, 2008 (7) Posted By ticticboom.

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Thousands of Mexican soldiers are being sent to CD. Juarez, after many pleas from the cities Mayor. The Mexican troops are arriving by troop transport C-130 Hercules aircraft, military transport vehicles, gunship helicopters, troop personal carries, pickups and Humvees with mounted .50-caliber machine guns. These convoys are operating throughout the city.

The Mexican soldiers are armed with combat American supplied M-16 fully automatic rifles. This latest action by Mexican President Calderon now places Mexican armed soldiers on the U.S. Border with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

This latest Mexican troop movement places more than 30,000 Mexican troops combating the Mexican cartels throughout the country. This operation, dubbed Operación Conjunta Chihuahua, by the Mexican army is expected to provoke a violent response from Mexican drug cartels, officials said.

This show of force is designed to overpower the well armed and equipped warring Mexican drug cartels and their operating gang soldiers some officials have estimated there numbers at more than 100,000. Dangerous gun battles between traffickers and soldiers are predicted by many scared citizens.

The El Paso Journal has learned that the Mexican drug cartels that are armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nationwide military crackdown are going to strike back, and are threatening to start killing soldiers in bold, daily attacks that are designed to discourage the one force perhaps strong enough to take on the rich and powerful drug cartels. Many Mexicans fear even the army is outgunned.

U.S. State Department reinstated its earlier alert that travelers should be careful when visiting Mexico. In light of these new developments in Juarez the State Department will reassess and decide whether that alert should be upgraded to a more serious “warning. “We are always looking at the situation in Mexico and want to give Americans the best information (about) Juárez,” said Steve Royster, spokesman for consular affairs at the U.S. Department of State. “As events warrant, we’ll make changes as needed.”

(Read full American Chronicle article by Michael Webster here)

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    The sad thing is that the goverment is associated with the cartels and have given El Chapo the power to kill the zetas that ask for quotas El Chapo unfortunatley is considered the good guy for killing the zetas that ask for a monthly amount of money in order to not kill you. Whats worse is that the U.S border patrol at el paso is as corrupt as mexico because they arrest people who they know are innocent and beat them untill they confess and if they dont they lie on the police reports that they turn in