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| La Linea'sTerror Campaign in Chihuahua Continues: 1 Dead -- UPDATED |
| 2011-03-24 |
| Including new information about Olivas Salinas, and another shooting later that night. A Chihuahua state police agent was ambushed and killed in the third day of attacks on state police agents in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday evening, according to Mexican press accounts. José Eriberto RamÃÂrez Olivas Salinas, 32, was fired on near the intersection of calles 27th and Aldama in the Rosario colony and then pursued to Calle 30th where he was shot to death. Olivas Salinas is the third Chihuahua state police agent murdered making good a threat by the criminal gang La Linea to kill one state police agent per day until the state attorney general resigns. Olivas Salinas is also a bodyguard to the state attorney general, Carlos Manuel Salas. La Linea is an armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel. Messages posted as graffiti the day of the first shooting Sunday claimed that state attorney general Manuel Salas been supporting the Sinaloa drug cartel through his office. The message also demanded Manuel Salas' resignation. One state police agent would be killed until Manuel Salas complies. To read background material about the first murder in La Linea's terror campagn click here. To read background material about the second murder,click here. Several shootings incidents in the Rosario colony have taken place as well, as reports say police agencies from all three level of government have conducted sweeps to search for the killers of police agents in the last two says. The incidents were reported at calles Niños Heroes and Colon, 27th and Rosales, 31st and Aldama and 33rd and Rosales. Two Chihuahua municipal police officers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire, and an unidentified civilian female who was a passenger in a car was wounded. Details on this shooting were not made available. Two Chihuahua state police agents were wounded early Thursday morning in a shootout between Mexican Policia Federal and Chihuahua state police agents, and armed suspects near the corner of calles Paseo Azteca and Paseo Pastizal in the Camino Real colony. An armored Jeep Cherokee with an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm pistol were seized by police at the scene. Reports say Manuel Salinas has been trying to downplay the shootings earleir in the week by saying they are part of his agency's counternarcotics activities. |
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