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| Five Mexican Governors Threatened in the Past by Cartels |
| 2010-06-30 |
| Google Translate The governor of the Mexican state of Tabasco said in a radio interview today that five Mexican state governors have had their lives threatened by drug gangs, according to Mexican news reports. Andrés Rafael Granier Melo, a Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) governor of Tabasco speaking by telephone at in a Mexican radio show in Cuidad Victoria, Tamaulipas, said governors in Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Veracruz and Tabasco have all been subject to death threats from Mexican drug gangs in the past. Granier Melo himself was attacked by armed suspect in his home in Tabasco in 2008 shortly after he denounced a Tabasco security official. His daughter's home was also attack where she suffered wounds. Granier Melo recounted meeting with the Interior Minister of Chiapas, the top cop for Chiapas, Fernando Gómez Mont, who also had been threatened with death. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 I imagine only the governors not on the take from the cartels have been threatened. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-30 14:25 |
| #1 ...see Hamas/Hezbollah in Lebanon. Power players within corrupt failed states. The difference between formal and informal organizational charts. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-06-30 08:46 |