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2019-12-01 Caribbean-Latin America

At least 14 killed in bloody gunfight in northern Mexico

[Aljazeera] Daytime shootout took place days after US President said he would designate drug cartels as terrorist groups.

Ten suspected drug cartel gunmen and four police were killed during a daytime shootout on Saturday in a Mexican town near the border with the United States, days after US President Donald Trump raised bilateral tensions by saying he would designate the gangs as terrorists.

The government of the northern state of Coahuila said state police clashed with a group of heavily armed gunmen in pickup trucks in the small town of Villa Union, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of the border city of Piedras Negras.

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#1 That's a 3 day weekend in Chicago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-01 07:19|| 2019-12-01 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I would say it resembles Baltimore, but there are no cops around to take part.

Posted by DooDahMan 2019-12-01 10:46|| 2019-12-01 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Trump's statement did nothing to cause this, and linking them is an act of propa...

OH, al'Jazeera. They're doing their job, then.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-01 13:15|| 2019-12-01 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll take Failed State for $600, Alex.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-01 20:11|| 2019-12-01 20:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Good move by POTUS to declare cartels as terrorists groups. There are far more tools to deal with them now.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-01 21:36|| 2019-12-01 21:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Declaring Mexico a State that abets terrorists might help in tightening up that border control and deporting some of that diversity too.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-01 22:42|| 2019-12-01 22:42|| Front Page Top

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