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.

Friday, May 04, 2007

5 Mexican Soldiers Die in Drug Shootout

May 2, 10:45 PM EDT
AP Photo/STR

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Five soldiers, including a colonel, and a suspected drug cartel enforcer were killed in a shootout in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which has been plagued by drug violence and is the target of a military-led anti-drug offensive.

More than a dozen suspected Zetas - a group of Gulf cartel hit men that includes former soldiers - threw grenades and opened fire on the troops late Tuesday in Caracuaro, 120 miles west of Mexico City, police spokesman Miguel Covarrubias said Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry said five soldiers were killed but declined to give further details or confirm media reports that at least four more were wounded. A suspected Zeta was also killed, local authorities said.

Authorities blame the Gulf cartel for beheadings and other killings in a turf war with rival gangs in Michoacan.

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