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| Drug Gang Hit Men Execute Navy Hero's Family in Mexico |
| 2009-12-22 |
| Vermin come in brands other than Muslim. MORE than a dozen hit men burst into a house near Mexico City early today and executed the family members of a Navy sailor who died in last week's battle that killed drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva. The gunmen killed the mother, sister, and aunt of Melquisedet Angulo Córdova only hours after the sailor was buried with a military honor guard. Two of the sailor's brothers were badly wounded, according to Mexican media reports. President Felipe Calderon had praised the sailor as an example to all Mexicans for his courage during the hours-long battle that killed Beltran Leyva in the central city of Cuernavaca last week. Beltran Leyva headed a drug trafficking organization that sent billions of dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana to the US and was well known for its brutality. The revenge killing underscores a vital failing by Mexico's government in its war on drug gangs: The inability to protect the people who are waging the war from retribution by drug gangs. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #3 This sounds like an excellent opportunity to set up an ambush on these curs. Next time there is an event like this, create an ambush house roach motel, then claim another hero who doesn't actually exist. Then when the hit men charge in, guns blazing, they find themselves in a no-win scenario. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-12-22 14:56 |
| #2 As long as there's boocoo money in the drug game, lots of blood will flow. Popular revulsion over the violence won't be enough to stop it... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-12-22 14:53 |
| #1 Dumb move. This will galvanize people against the gangs. Pablo made the same mistake with the Columbian people. He had no were left to hide after a while. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-12-22 14:39 |