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Recent developments in México may soon lead to historical changes in that country and could have dire consequences for us as well.
New drug cartel aliances and more ruthless behavior have led to beheadings, executions, torture and extortion at an unprecedented level. Few of these events are being reported in English in the US. We provide English translations of Spanish articles appearing in Mexican newspapers and on Mexican news sites along with a few pertinent videos produced here in the US. Comments and suggestions are encouraged - and feel free to remain anonymous on the map at the bottom!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

7 Shot in Less Than 3 Hours

Seven Riddled In Under Three Hours

These cases of border violence are highlighted with the murder of another transit officer of Ciudad Juárez.

This article appeared in El Ágora de Chihuahua on August 11, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

Ciudad Juárez – August 11, 2008 – Within less than three hours, seven men have been executed with bullets and two more have been wounded seriously in this city, including a traffic officer and a teenager.

The traffic officer identified as Rogelio Vargas Lee, along with three other individuals, was mortally wounded at 8:00 in the evening outside his home at Iguala Valley Street and Tenayuca Street front of Technical
Secondary School 64.

In the attack by heavily armed commando, a teenager of 12 years by the name of Ricardo Martínez was wounded, who saved his own life by hiding underneath a car, but had to be hospitalized in critical condition.

Rogelio Vargas Lee had already survived a similar attack a month ago, but on that occasion the hitman's weapon jammed and the officer
miraculously survived.

For the moment, the crime against the traffic officer is a complete mystery to police agencies, especially since the assassination of the Chief Investigator of the PGJE (Attorney General's Justice Office) that happened this afternoon in Chihuahua.
(See referenced article here)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People in Chihuahua are taking real seriosly the drug war issue and one of the online newspaper in Chihuahua, El Agora, www.elagora.com.mx, started to have an ennourmeus ammount of messages the last few days posted by citizens saying they have shotguns and all kind of weapons on their houses and asking everybody to join an offensive againts drug gangs.

Administrators on that site announced they have been struggling with the surprising ammount of traffic due to shocking news of people organizing on that site claiming for the final people's revenge