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Caribbean-Latin America
Sonora: Mexican Army, Federales Conduct Joint Operation
2010-10-15
Google Translate from a variety of Mexican web sources. For a map, click here.
Elements of the Mexican Army and Mexican Federal agents totaling 400 effectives in more than 50 vehicles are currently conducting countergang operations and have been since Tuesday in northern Sonora, confirmed the Sonora Procurador de Justicia, Abel Murrieta Gutierrez.

Operations center around Tubutama and other villages in the Altar desert, which is an area considered to be a gang stronghold and communications center for Los Zetas drug gang.

Tubutama was the location of a massive intergang shootout July 2nd between Los Zetas and a sub group of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel known as Command X, as well as another shootout in nearby El Saric more than three weeks later which claimed the lives of at least three unidentified armed suspects, but may also have claimed as many as 21 lives.

Reports say numerous local police in towns such as El Saric, Tubutama and Carborca have resigned in recent weeks because of how freely armed groups operate in the area. The exits are so severe, El Saric, for example, is said to have no police presence.

The area around Tubutama and El Saric are so remote cell telephone communications are difficult and it could take days before word can get out about the current operations.
Posted by:badanov

#7  What badanov said.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-10-15 18:06  

#6  I guess I am kinda simple and naive. I think when you put on the uniform of your country or region, aside from the pay and the cool uniforms, you are making a statement that you are putting yourself on the line to defend what you think is right. I think the men, to call them what they are, who do that are the good guys until the moment they are not the good guys.

I understand the cynicism about the Federales being corrupt and so on, but I think the reason for that cynicism is largely anecdotal and not system wide. The average Mexican would agree.

Rinse the linked article through Google Translate, and read the comments. It's not like no one is commenting there's a problem; Mexicans recognize it, and they point it it out whenever possible in plain language.

Sorta like Americans would given the same situation.

So, I think if the Mexican Army and Mexican Federal agents get deployed to an abject sh*thole like the Altar desert to clean it out, a place that is so remote, so isolated there are gullies there you can't even get a radio message out, their successes should be cheered and their failings lamented, whenever possible.
Posted by: badanov   2010-10-15 17:31  

#5  You need to get a program, Rob. You can't tell the players without a program.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-10-15 11:48  

#4  There's a difference?
Posted by: nGuard   2010-10-15 09:14  

#3  Just for clarity -- are the Federales and Mexican "Army" suppressing the drug trade in general or just suppressing their competitors?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2010-10-15 08:22  

#2  Here it is on our back steps and little notice is paid?

The MFM is intentionally suppressing the information as effectively as any totalitarian state. Such news broadcast to the broad reach of the American population would kill any amnesty and force those in the Beltway to fortify the border. That is against their goal of 'one world' open border non-state America. They're too busy creating 'crisis' for ratings elsewhere that support their game and agenda.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-10-15 07:33  

#1  Hey, that's just southeast of me, here in Tucson. I'll let you know when the war reaches our suburbs. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, they cancelled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that year - figuring it was too close to the war zone. Here it is on our back steps and little notice is paid? I'll let you know when the the war reaches the Tucson suburbs...telling friend from foe might be an issue, however. Los Zetas reglan?!
Posted by: borgboy   2010-10-15 00:33  

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