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| US Official Killed in Mexico |
| 2011-02-16 |
| For a map, click here. What the hell were they doing travelling that area? At the moment it is unclear if the officials were travelling from or to Monterrey. One unidentified US immigration official was killed and another was wounded in a small arms attack in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, according to English language and Mexican news accounts. Reports say the officials were travelling on a road from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon to Mexico City when they were assaulted in the Santa Maria Del Rio municipality (county) on the main highway. The officials were with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The decision to travel the area at this time is astonishing in view of the fact that violence had shifted in the last two weeks to Zacatecas and far southern Durango as well as other areas south of the northern tier of Mexican states bordering the US. The US consulate in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon in recent months has discouraged travel to Monterrey and was in the process of moving embassy American worker families out of Mexico. |
| Posted by:badanov |
