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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.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Soldiers guard police station after shooting

By Anna Cearley

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 20, 2007

ROSARITO BEACH – A day after gunmen stormed the Rosarito Beach police station, killing one officer and wounding another, dozens of soldiers stood guard around the building and work crews started repairing the broken glass and bullet-nicked walls.

The attack's apparent target, Public Security Director Jorge Eduardo Montero Alvarez, was being shuttled around the city under heavy guard as funeral arrangements were made for his fallen bodyguard, Officer Guillermo Castro Corona, 35.

Tuesday's attack occurred at 12:40 p.m. It was the third attack in recent weeks against people who were named to high-level public security positions in new administrations in Rosarito Beach, Tijuana and Tecate.

As many as four carloads of people may have been involved in the attack. Cisneros said police were able to repel the gunmen, who retreated.

The motive of the attack was unclear. The post of public security director is similar to that of a police chief in the United States.

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