News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Shoot-out between Mexican drug gangs leaves three dead in latest in wave of killings

By Ioan Grillo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:49 a.m. July 22, 2006

MEXICO CITY – A shoot-out between suspected drug gangs left three men dead before dozens of police and soldiers stormed the scene and arrested the gunmen in the central Mexican state of Michoacan, police said Saturday.

The slayings were the latest in a wave of drug-related bloodshed that has killed more than 2,000 people across Mexico since the beginning of 2005.

The shoot-out erupted Friday in the community of Las Anonas about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Mexico City, said Victor Baltasar, spokesman for Michoacan state police.

Federal agents, soldiers and state police, who have been carrying anti-drug operations in the area, rapidly responded by sealing off the scene and moving in to arrest four suspected drug smugglers, Baltasar said.

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