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.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Mexican officials find 1,795 drug fields in western Michoacan state

By Mark Stevenson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:34 p.m. December 18, 2006

MEXICO CITY – Mexican soldiers and federal police sent to restore order in Michoacan state have discovered 1,795 marijuana fields in the past week and seized or destroyed marijuana worth about US$8.2 million (euro6.26 million), security officials said Monday.

Officials estimate the raids cost the drug cartels as much as US$626 million (euro478.05 million), counting not only the value of the destroyed plants but also the drugs that could have been produced with opium poppies and marijuana seeds seized in the raids, the army said.

Federal authorities on Sunday announced they had captured suspected drug cartel boss Elias Valencia, the most significant arrest since President Felipe Calderon sent 7,000 military troops and federal police last week to the western state terrorized by drug gangs that have carried out beheadings and other brutal killings.

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