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Probably Not As Bad As It Sounds...

...but Lord, it sounds bad enough.
From the redoubtable Associated Press, via the once-respectable Chicago Tribune, so the usual caveats apply:

Mexico Sends New Troops to US Border
By Associated Press
10:25 PM CDT, March 27, 2008

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The Mexican government said Thursday it has sent more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to curb soaring violence in a border state across from Texas and New Mexico.

Agents began arriving Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez near El Paso, Texas. About 200 people have been killed in this Chihuahua state city of 1.3 million since Jan. 1.

"In this battle, no group will be able to withstand the government's will and force," Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino said at the initiative's unveiling in Ciudad Juarez.

Chihuahua is home to the town of Palomas, across from Columbus, New Mexico, where at least 40 people have been killed so far this year. Earlier this week, Palomas' police chief sought asylum in the U.S. after his deputies abandoned him and he received death threats.

The whole thing lives here.

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).