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Martial law in border towns; masked soldiers oust local police in Tamaulipas

By Gritsforbreakfast

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After the most remarkable week of news for Mexican drug enforcement in recent memory, I can only imagine this astonishing scene, via the Dallas News ("Drug operation targets police," Jan. 23):Elite army soldiers took over police stations along Mexico's border with Texas on Tuesday, disarming police, checking for unregistered weapons and searching patrol cars and personal vehicles for any items that might link the officers to drug cartels, according to an official and the Mexican media.Special-forces soldiers wearing ski masks took control of police stations in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros and other cities in Tamaulipas state during the morning change of shifts.Can you envision the chaos when masked, gun-waving soldiers first descended on local police stations unannounced at dawn? If there were any honest cops left in those agencies, they probably at first thought it was the cartel attacking!In the annals of police corruption I can think of very few similar scenarios to ski-masked soldiers taking over their own government's local police stations by force, particularly on this scale...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).