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By Jerry Seper
Mexican military efforts to crush heavily armed drug-smuggling http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1328.
“What we face is more of a challenge than http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=243 can be expected to cope with,” said Kent Lundgren, chairman of the 800-member National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO). “The best solution is for the U.S. military to assume armed positions along the border … and use whatever force is necessary to control the border zone.”
On Jan. 12, Mexican Brig. Gen. Rigoberto Garcia Cortez said the Mexican military and other personnel had surrounded five border cities in the lower Rio Grande Valley — Matamoros, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Miguel Aleman and Nuevo Laredo — in response to gunfights between Mexican police, military forces and heavily armed drug smugglers.Gen. Garcia told reporters last week his soldiers were encircling the targeted cities and were “organized to fight all criminal activity.” He said it would take time, but the drug smugglers “will not be able to handle the government and the army. … We are fighting for the security of the nation and its people.”
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