Posts Tagged ‘drug war’

US will help Mexico in its drug war

Thursday, March 19, 2009 13:54 By GSerrano

Amid a drug war and trade dispute, US President Barack Obama will visit Mexico on April 16. Obama is currently studying a possible military deployment on the US-Mexico border to help solve the problems of escalating drug-related violence, particularly in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where Mexican President Felipe Calderon has already sent 11,000 troops composed of [...]

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Escalating Number of Deaths, Beheadings, and Murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 20:48 By GSerrano

The number of government soldiers and police that Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent on a troop surge to combat narco-terrorism in Ciudad Juarez is 11,000. The Mexico-US border town, gleaning from the war-like environment it is in now, is a no man’s land where drug cartel syndicate gangsters cleverly evade one another and the [...]

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