March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted by:
CULIACAN, Mexico – Gunbattles between rival gangs killed 18 people in a northeastern Mexican town Monday, a day after seven police officers and an inmate died in an ambush of a convoy transporting prisoners in western Mexico. The fighting in the town of Abasolo erupted Monday morning and left at least 18 people dead, the Tamaulipas state government said in a three-sentence statement that offered no details. It said state and federal security forces had arrived in the town to restore order and investigate. The shooting came a month after shootings in the nearby town of Padilla also killed 18 people, several of them innocent bystanders. Tamaulipas has been wracked by a turf war between the…
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In some parts of the world, people are fighting oppression, in Mexico they fight to be oppressed!
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In some parts of the world, people are fighting oppression, in Mexico they fight to be oppressed!
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March 8, 2011 at 1:00 am