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| Mexican Security Forces Reinforce in Torreon, Coahuila |
| 2011-05-09 |
| By Chris Covert More than 1,000 Mexican Army soldiers arrived in Torreon, Coahuila Saturday, part of a reinforcement of security forces, according to Mexican news reports. A total of 252 soldiers arrived aboard two Mexican Army jetliners which the rest arrived over land with mobile equipment. The reinforcements are part of a renewed security effort in the area ordered by Mexican Secretario de Gobernación (SEGOB) (Interior Minister) Francisco Blake Mora following a meeting which included the governors of Durango and Coahuila. The La Laguna area includes the twin cities of Torreon, Coahuila and Gomez Palacio, Durango. The area sits astride several Mexican east-west highways including Mexican Interstate Highway 30 and 40, two major lateral roads in the Mexican interstate highway system. To see a map, click here. To see a map of Coahuila click here The area has been spared the worst of intergang and counternarcotics violence, but it has seen a few direct attacks on police forces. To see the last Rantburg reports on drug cartel violence in Torreon, Coahuila click here and here. The deployment is the largest deployment of security forces in Torreon since last summer, when approximately 300 Policia Federal effectives were sent to La Laguna to beef up security. It is possible that the new larger deployment is a response to recently acquired intelligence that the Sinaloa drug cartel has formalized an alliance with the Gulf cartel and was moving operations east. The new deployment would make lateral movement of product and cartel security elements through La Laguna much harder because one of the highways runs crosscountry from the port of Mazatlan, Sinaloa to the US border cities of Piedra Negras, Coahuila, as well as Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Reynosa and Matamoros are still contested areas between rivals Los Zetas and the Gulf cartel, while Nuevo laredo remains in Los Zetas control. In related news, a news item listed in El Diario de Coahuila last week described a deployment of Mexican Army troops and equipment arriving by rail in Nuevo Laredo. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Beautiful piece of ordnance, and beautifully made in the USA to boot. Gawd, I am proud to be an American! |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-05-09 19:29 |
| #1 an 18 yr old was stopped in Tijuana with a .50 Barrett and an American military anti-tank weapon still in its' case with the manual. Might wanna trace back those serial numbers |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-09 18:50 |
