Ten of thirteen corpses discovered inside a bus, lie on a road in San Ignacio, Sinaloa State, Mexico, on December 4. More than 15,000 people have been kidnapped in Mexico since 1986, an independent watchdog said Thursday, as prosecutors said they had identified the remains of a girl abducted last year. (AFP/File)From Washington Post:
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The hit was fast, bold, lethal. Jesús Huerta Yedra, a top federal prosecutor here, was gunned down last week in a busy intersection 100 yards from the U.S. border in a murder of precise choreography.
In Mexico's chaotic drug war, attacks are no longer the work of desperate amateurs with bad aim. Increasingly, the killings are being carried out by professionals, often hooded and gloved, who trap their targets in coordinated ambushes, strike with overwhelming firepower, and then vanish into the afternoon rush hour -- just as they did in the Huerta killing.
The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended. Mexican officials say the commando squads probably travel from state to state, across a country where the government and its security forces are drawing alarming conclusions about the scope and skill of an enemy supported by billions of dollars in drug profits.
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My Comment: Mexico is finally facing up to the criminal gangs that run the narcotics trade in the country. But the war that has resulted from this confrontation is now making some people scratch their heads and asking if this conflict is worth it.
Sadly .... this was expected. Fight now .... fight later .... this battle was going to happen. Better to happen now than later when the cost may be even greater.
