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2009-03-07 Caribbean-Latin America

7,000 Mexican Army Troops Deploy To Ciudad Juarez

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-07 15:36|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 From 4 Mar El Paso Times:
"I advise you to stop" at army checkpoints, de la Rosa Hickerson, a member of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission and a critic of Mexican President Felipe Calderón's war against the drug cartels, told a forum at University of Texas at El Paso last week. "Because if you run the checkpoint, they will shoot you in the head."

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-03-07 17:16|| 2009-03-07 17:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "Because if you run the checkpoint, they will shoot you in the head."

To bad she ain't talking about our checkpoints....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-07 17:23|| 2009-03-07 17:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Build the effing wall NOW!!!! Before Mexico breaks out into open civil war.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-03-07 18:49|| 2009-03-07 18:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Hummm -- wonder what the alert level is at Fort Bliss?

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2009-03-07 19:46|| 2009-03-07 19:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Bliss is OK. They've got the I-10 barrier protecting them.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-07 19:48|| 2009-03-07 19:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I recall back in the dark days of 2006, we'd read State travel warnings or cables about C. Juarez alongside sit-reps from Ramadi, and laugh a bit, wondering when the NYT et al would start blaring about "war-torn" Mexico, etc.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-03-07 20:45|| 2009-03-07 20:45|| Front Page Top

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