4 Americans Murdered In Mexico Near Border
ROSARITO, Mexico - Four people believed to be Americans were shot in the head and dumped in a notorious drug-smuggling area in northern Mexico near the border with California, Mexican police said on Monday.
Police in the beach town of Rosarito, across the border from San Diego, said they discovered the bodies of three men and a woman on Sunday in an abandoned car in a remote patch of scrubland near the Pacific coast.
“The bodies had been there for at least a week. They were spotted by local people out hunting,” a municipal police spokesman said.
Police concluded the victims were U.S. citizens because the vehicle had California license plates, the three men were of African-American appearance, the woman was Caucasian and a U.S. driver’s license was found in the car, the spokesman said.
The remote area is one of many along the border used by drug gangs to smuggle marijuana and cocaine into the United States, police said.
Violence from Mexico’s vicious war between rival cartels and the police and army has spilled over from the rough nearby city of Tijuana into once-quiet Rosarito and its outlying areas as gangs fight over smuggling routes into California.
Some 1,300 people have been killed in drug violence across Mexico this year and more than 2,500 died in 2007.
(Reuters)
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Why do Americans still find it necessary to visit Mexico…
I mean… I think we can safely say there are enough of them here.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm“Violence from Mexico’s vicious war between rival cartels and the police and army has spilled over from the rough nearby city of Tijuana into once-quiet Rosarito and its outlying areas as gangs fight over smuggling routes into California.”
Maybe if we closed those routes? Nah.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pmIts been getting really bad down south for some time now with the cartel wars going on.
I’m part of an large offroad racing team, and we actually cancelled our plans to compete in the Baja 500 in 2 weeks. It will be a first, as I’ve been going down to Baja all my life for surfing, fishing, and the races.
To take $$$ trucks, support equipment, and a 60-70 man crew is just not worth the risk at this time.
Its sad because our fans and friends in Baja have to live with that risk everyday.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pma river of fire on the boader
May 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pmI would just build a giant moat and fill it with acid. cross that bitches, i dare you!
our government has failed us though. that border should be closed by now
May 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pmSmall US towns near the border, and/or on drug routes will be next.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:40 pmBad news its already happening down here on the border. Good thing for the 2nd Amendment and the new Texas castle laws.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:03 pmOk here we go..Mexico border towns becoming mini Irags. Great?! Next please. When will a leader step up and handle all this !.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pmAnybody who visits Mexico for whatever reason, is begging for a bullet in the head.
Stay the fuck away from Mexico.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:28 pmCountries have been controlling their borders for hundreds of years. To say it can’t be done, but at the same time to say that we can change the temperature of the Earth through regulation, is simply amazing. The Federal government should be fired.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:28 am