Following up on frogger post...
In Ciudad Juarez this past weekend, drug traffickers decided that Roberto Orduna Cruz (the now former police chief) had to go. The drug gangs have become so powerful there that they forced Orduna to resign and flee the city. To get what they wanted, they vowed to kill a police officer every 48 hours, and did until Orduna resigned. The Juarez police up until this incident have been no match for the drug gangs, facing execution-style shootings, grenades, fires, and beheadings in recent weeks. 45 police officers have been killed since January 2007.
The federal government ordered 5,000 soldiers to take over the Juarez Police Department, and the defense secretary will pick the next chief of police. 2,000 soldiers have already entered the city, and will fight to take back control of the city.
Texas is responding to this violence by preparing for a potential collapse of the Mexican government...
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