Drug Raids Across U.S. Net Hundreds Of Suspects - NYTimes.com: "
A little more than a week after an American law enforcement agent was shot to death by gunmen suspected of beingdrug traffickers in Mexico, federal authorities struck back Thursday with raids across the United States that rounded up more than 450 people believed to have ties to criminal organizations south of the border.
The authorities said sweeps were conducted in nearly every major American city; involved more than 3,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agents....
the planning for the operation had begun before Mr. Zapata’s shooting, but (a spokesman for the DEA) acknowledged that the United States hoped to show it would not tolerate attacks against its agents. ...
While thousands of Mexican law enforcement agents have been killed in the drug violence that has plagued Mexico since 2007, Mr. Zapata was the first American official to be killed in the line of duty there in more than 25 years. Obama administration officials called the attack a “game-changer,” hinting to Mexico that more needed to be done to quash the cartels." Feb. 24, 2011
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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