Mexican border city protests army operations-paper

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

MEXICO CITY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents in a Mexican border city briefly blocked access roads to the United States on Saturday to protest army operations against drug cartels which they say put children and families at risk, Mexican daily El Universal reported.

Some 2,300 people, some with their children, carried signs and choked up traffic on the busy crossing between Reynosa and Texas to protest the army's deployment to drug hot spots along the border, which have turned the region into a battleground, the paper said in its online edition.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of soldiers and police across the country to take on powerful drug traffickers, but the frontal assault has failed to curb violence with more than 5,700 people murdered last year alone.

The northern state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa is located, is known as the home of the Gulf Cartel, whose feared armed-wing, the Zetas, are famed for torturing and decapitating rivals.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN07326555

[jody]

1. IMO this is a War on Terror just as real as in the ME. Legalize drugs -- NOW! n/t

[ohio2007]

2. Mexico has a drug problem ? They should appoint a drug "fighter" to fix it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3723971



question;
What kind of people should be allowed to purchase "over the border" cocaine

if it was allowed over the counter status ?