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| Mexican Army Reinforces Juarez |
| 2011-08-22 |
| For a map of Chihuahua state, click here A large Mexican Army convoy entered Juarez, Chihuahua Sunday afternoon along a major thoroughfare,according to Mexican news sources. Local press estimates between 1,000 and 1,500 troops aboard 40 vehicles, including armored vehicles travelled en convoy along avenida Tecnologico. The website of the Secretaria Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) the controlling agency for the Mexican Army, did nor have any information about the new troops. None of the troops currently billeted in Juarez have left, so it appears the force is in fact a reinforcement of federal efforts to crack down on crime. Violent cartel related deaths have fallen all long the Mexican border states since last June, albeit with an increase in the deaths of women in Juarez: 10 in the last week alone. Press reports were last week that since the capture of Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez AKA "El Diego", a new commander may have stepped in to continue security operations for La Linea, the Juarez Cartel's armed enforcement wing. The new cartel replacement along with continuing federal security operations at a higher tempo may have been a factor in reinforcing Juarez. Since he hired his new police chief, Julian Leyzaola Perez, the mayor of Juarez, Hector Murguia Lardizabal has been demanding that all Mexican Federal forces including the army leave Juarez. Murguia Lardizabal has a long history of heated relations with the local Policia Federal detachment, and apparently wanted to continue his predecessor's demands that the army steer clear of the city. However, since the prison riot at the Juarez municipal Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) late last month, Murguia Lardizabal's security policies have been found wanting. The week of the riot, local businessmen asked Chihuahua governor and the visiting head of the Mexican Ministry of Inteior (SEGOB) Francisco Blake Mora, to retain federal security forces in the city now that the security situation has improved. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Looks like they wound up near the airport on the west side of Ciudad Juarez. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-08-22 06:34 |
| #1 A BATTALION of foreign troops, of unknown origin, is massing on the west Texas border outside of Ft. Bliss? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-08-22 03:30 |
