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Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Army Occupies Tabasco After Attack By Zetas
2006-07-18
Hundreds of soldiers patrolled three cities in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco in Mexico on Monday to restore security. The soldiers also looked for presumed drug traffickers who engaged in a shootout with police that left two officers dead and seven people injured.

The Army was keeping watch in Cardenas, Cunduacan and part of Villahermosa, the capital, about 400 miles southeast of Mexico City, said Tabasco Gov. Manuel Andrade, who did not reveal the number of troops.

The shootout took place before dawn on Sunday when a group of armed men believed to belong to the Zetas, a group led by ex-military men working for the Gulf drug cartel, killed a police commander and opened fire on others in an attempt to rescue two colleagues who had been detained, police said.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#9  The Zetas were Mexican anti-drug commandos who sold their allegiance to the drug lords. They operate like a miltary force and have killed hundreds in Mexico. Some have set up shop to El Norte.
3 Dallas slayings indicate Mexico's Zetas moved north Not so much immigration, but an invasion.
Posted by: ed   2006-07-18 11:29  

#8  There's appears to be a lot of "Tobasco" in New Orleans, or vise versa.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-07-18 11:14  

#7  "Mexican State Overrun by Sorority" (?!)

the Zetas, a group led by ex-military men working for the Gulf drug cartel

Ah, okay. Never heard the term before.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-07-18 10:31  

#6  First Tequila had to be "protected" (granted, only by the UN's Historical Preservation groupies) and now Tabasco? What in the world's goin' on down theres?
Posted by: BA   2006-07-18 09:56  

#5  Send in the Marines - the Jalapenos, etal. have to be saved.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-07-18 03:23  

#4  The only reason they're steamed is because they were on the payroll too. These jackasses killed them anyway. That's enough to raise anyone's dander.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-07-18 01:59  

#3  Tabasco has a rich extreme left revolutionary history circa the 1920's and 30's. Zetas are far from leftists, rather narcoterrorists of the first order. The US has a narco-state on its southern border, which is ignored at our peril.
Posted by: borgboy   2006-07-18 01:37  

#2  Being attacked by zits can be problematic
Posted by: Captain America   2006-07-18 01:21  

#1  Those saucy drug trafficers in Tabasco again.
Posted by: mojo   2006-07-18 00:15  

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