U.S. calls on Fox to end violence (Vicente Fox)

[Judi Lynn]

Aug. 1, 2005, 9:49PM

U.S. calls on Fox to end violence
Officials say Mexico needs to do all it can to stop the killings in Nuevo Laredo
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle


MEXICO CITY - With the American consulate in Nuevo Laredo closed in protest Monday, U.S. officials called on Mexican President Vicente Fox's government to "do what is necessary" to bring the gangland violence there under control.

"In short, we would like them to do what needs to be done to put an end to the violence," a State Department official said, on condition of anonymity, through the U.S. Embassy's press office. "We believe that the Mexican government has that capability."

U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza last Friday closed the consulate in Nuevo Laredo for a week, following a shootout in an upscale residential neighborhood that involved automatic rifles, grenades and rocket launchers. The State Department officials on Monday said the U.S. government wants to see drug gangs in the city denied such heavy weaponry.

Nuevo Laredo, a city of about 500,000 across the Rio Grande from Laredo, has had more than 100 murders in the first seven months of the year, most of them related to a war between drug gangs for control of smuggling routes into Texas.
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[Wetzelbill]

1. Hmmm interesting

[wli]

2. Bushler's losing the war on drugs too

And brilliantly this "strategy" to fund black ops and rake in cash for organized criminals in the government has created an "insurgency" not only perfectly capable of reaching of US territory, but whose modus operandi is in fact crossing an undefended border for their shipping routes.

Without a black market, none of this would have happened.

And, of course, it all dovetails perfectly with the plot to acquire police powers by white supremacists (something of a recurring theme in that "movement").

[MasonJar]

3. And what is Foxe telling Bush? End the violence?