CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday.The officers' resignation Thursday left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said. State and federal police have moved in to take over police work, he said.The mass resignation appeared to be connected to a Tuesday attack by gunmen that killed three of the town's officers, Salas said.But it wasn't the first deadly attack on the police department this year.
In mid-May, police chief Manuel Martinez, who had been in office just seven months, was gunned down with two other officers on a nearby highway. The three had been kidnapped a day before police found their bodies riddled with bullets in the back seat of a sedan.The town's police force was relatively new.Angry residents had led authorities to replace the entire force last September after the mob killings of two teenagers who had allegedly kidnapped a girl from a seafood restaurant. People claimed police officers were aiding drug gangs.Martinez, with his new police force, had said he wanted to end the kidnappings and extortions that have terrorized the town where people grow green chili and cotton.
The new police in Ascension had installed a telescopic camera in the town's plaza that rotated, giving officers at the station the ability to zoom on a site as far as the outskirts of town.
In addition, townspeople helped police dig a broad ditch around the town to prevent criminals from escaping on back roads.Ascension is southwest of Ciudad Juarez, the border city across from El Paso, Texas, that is one of Mexico's most violent cities. The state of Chihuahua has had the most homicides blamed on organized crime and drug trafficking since the government's anti-drug offensive began in December 2006.
Elsewhere, the Defense Department announced that a 19-day offensive in northern states against the Zetas drug cartel had resulted in the shooting deaths of 30 alleged criminals and a soldier.The army said that among those killed was Jorge Luis de la Pena, the Zetas boss for Nuevo Laredo, the city across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.Troops also detained 196 people in different cities during operation "North Lynx."The Zetas gang, known for its viciousness, has been fighting its former ally, the Gulf cartel, in Mexico's north since early 2010.Near the northern industrial hub of Monterrey, police found the bodies of two men each hanging by an ankle from a pedestrian bridge. Officers said a witness reported that gunmen strung up the men alive and then shot them.Such grisly displays at bridges have become common in and around Monterrey as well as in other Mexican cities torn by drug violence.
Disturbing isn't it? I know we covered this in the last article but I just want to remind you once again that the President of Mexico sucks. There is no way this should be taking place in a civilized country. If that were here and drug dealers were so brazen them and their entire families would be skinned alive by the people. President Calderon is so worried about what US Border Patrol is doing yet he turns a blind eye to the plight of his own people. This is a legitimate war get your military involved alot more than they are and kill these people. If you don't have two nuts to rub together to make the call then ask other countries for help. I'm sure our military would love to wipe that scum off of the face of the planet. They don't deserve prison the only thing they deserve is a slow death to set an example to the rest of them. This can be fixed as long as you have some balls. It makes me wonder if the entire government over there is corrupt. If you could just sit on your ass and bitch to fix the problem you'd be considered a military genius but that doesn't work does it? Who's payroll are you on? I know this commentary wasn't very insightful but I feel much better these people have suffered through this too long from an inept and corrupt government. They aren't much better than Somalia. The whole thing is disgusting.
If you haven't already check out the first two articles in this series
The Exposed Face of Drug Dealers
Juarez: I Just Want You To Know
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