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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Apr 8, 2015 6:26:53 GMT -7
Karl, I hope this is not near your stay. Mexican police killed during ambush in Jalisco Fifteen police officers have been killed and five others wounded in an ambush in the Mexican state of Jalisco, prosecutors have said.Gunmen targeted the police convoy as it travelled along a highway towards the state capital of Guadalajara on Monday. Security Commissioner Alejandro Solorio called it a "cowardly attack". The area is home to a drug cartel known as Jalisco New Generation, but Mr Solorio would not say if the gang was behind the ambush. It is considered one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico and is involved in large-scale drug trafficking along the Pacific Coast. Raul Benitez, a security expert at Mexico's National Autonomous University, described the afternoon attack as well planned and orchestrated. "A lot of gunmen were involved. They blocked the highway to surround them [police] and attacked with military superiority,' he told the Associated Press. The ambush is the latest in a series of killings in the region over the past two weeks. On 19 March gunmen shot dead five police officers during an attack in Jalisco. The police chief of the town of Zacoalco de Torres was also killed on Monday.
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Post by karl on Apr 8, 2015 10:44:00 GMT -7
J.J.
Thank you for your concern, very much appreciated. That area of Jalisco is quite a distance from Puebla, it though is a popular location for retirees from The US and Canada. With this, very important for the Mexican economy and very well protected for that reason.
It is difficult and not a good thing to second guess the reasons of this attact upon the police. This action by the at present unknown gun men is a very deplorable act with such a loss of lives. None-the-less, other then Federal Police, it is problematic of actions of local police. For often, but not all, but some, will add to their salaries a bit of pay off monies from which ever group conducting business that is not legal.
With the above, also in the area of cartel operations, they often as not, will provide protection to areas in their control to keep things quite.
Karl
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