Thousands of Mexican Troops Patrol Bordertown Streets of Juarez
Thousands of Mexican soldiers are being sent to CD. Juarez, after many pleas from the cities Mayor. The Mexican troops are arriving by troop transport C-130 Hercules aircraft, military transport vehicles, gunship helicopters, troop personal carries, pickups and Humvees with mounted .50-caliber machine guns. These convoys are operating throughout the city.
The Mexican soldiers are armed with combat American supplied M-16 fully automatic rifles. This latest action by Mexican President Calderon now places Mexican armed soldiers on the U.S. Border with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
This latest Mexican troop movement places more than 30,000 Mexican troops combating the Mexican cartels throughout the country. This operation, dubbed Operación Conjunta Chihuahua, by the Mexican army is expected to provoke a violent response from Mexican drug cartels, officials said.
This show of force is designed to overpower the well armed and equipped warring Mexican drug cartels and their operating gang soldiers some officials have estimated there numbers at more than 100,000. Dangerous gun battles between traffickers and soldiers are predicted by many scared citizens.
The El Paso Journal has learned that the Mexican drug cartels that are armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nationwide military crackdown are going to strike back, and are threatening to start killing soldiers in bold, daily attacks that are designed to discourage the one force perhaps strong enough to take on the rich and powerful drug cartels. Many Mexicans fear even the army is outgunned.
U.S. State Department reinstated its earlier alert that travelers should be careful when visiting Mexico. In light of these new developments in Juarez the State Department will reassess and decide whether that alert should be upgraded to a more serious “warning. “We are always looking at the situation in Mexico and want to give Americans the best information (about) Juárez,” said Steve Royster, spokesman for consular affairs at the U.S. Department of State. “As events warrant, we’ll make changes as needed.”
(Read full American Chronicle article by Michael Webster here)
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Funny.. I thought the Mexican Army was employed by the cartels…
March 31st, 2008 at 10:42 amNot that it matters, but the rifles carried by the soldiers in the picture above are not M16s… They look like a variant of the HK91 .308 battle rifle, which I’m pretty sure America did not supply.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:30 amThose are H&K G3s. 7.62×51mm NATO.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pmA “cold-war”…..right here on our southern border and the MSM isn’t reporting a single thing about it.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:04 pmThe US and Canada recently made an agreement that they would share troops across borders to assist in times of trouble (I forget what the precise terms were: terrorist attacks, civil strife??). Might we see Canucks defending our southern border if the clash between Mexico’s military and the drug cartels moves north of the borders? You KNOW some of the cartel personnel will attempt to run to the US. I think our Border Guards, Nat’l. Guard and Reserves may be in for a real rough time in the not so distant future.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:08 pmmexican troops carry M16s in other parts but in the picture above thier not i have seen them with MP5s as well
June 8th, 2008 at 6:11 pm