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.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Drug cartel linked to hospital gunfight

Plea for peace at a farewell to the fallen
By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 21, 2007

TIJUANA – Mourners pleaded for an end to violence during yesterday's memorial service for two law enforcement officers killed Wednesday when several gunmen stormed General Hospital in Tijuana.

Evangelina Balderas de García, the widow of state prison guard Rodolfo García Parrales, blamed the gunmen for robbing her family of “a spouse, a father and . . . a great element of the corporation he belonged to.”

Authorities have linked the Arellano Félix drug cartel to the shootout with police, which started near the city's main bus station. One suspected cartel member died at the scene and another suspect was wounded and taken to General Hospital, where his fellow gunmen tried to remove him.

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