Monday, February 9, 2009

A Failed State on Our Southern Border: Mexico drug gangs threaten cops on radio, kill them

From Reuters:

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border are breaking into police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.

"You're next, bastard ... We're going to get you," an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman.

The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping "narcocorrido" music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves.

"No one can help them," an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car.

Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads....MORE

See also:

U.S. military report warns 'sudden collapse' of Mexico is possible

and:

"...Don’t Count on Mexico to Supplant Mid-East Crude"