Another mexican Mayor Gunned Down By Drug Cartels

From The Daily Mail Online and FAIR:

Another Mexican mayor gunned down in cold blood as efforts by border politicians to engage U.S. counterparts fails dismally


By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 2:39 PM on 24th September 2010

Gunmen have killed another Mexican mayor as the border region descends further into lawless violence.

Prisciliano Rodriguez Salinas was gunned down along with another employee of the town named Doctor Gonzalez, about 30 miles, east of Monterrey.

Rival gangs have been battling to control drug routes through Nuevo Leon and neighboring border states.

The latest deadly attack on a political figure comes three weeks after unidentified gunment murdered Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, the 46-year-old mayor of Hidalgo.

He had been shot dead while he was driving his car, and his four-year-old daughter seriously wounded, in the same state of Tamaulipas where 72 migrants were massacred the week before.



His four-year-old daughter was seriously wounded in the attack, the source said.

Leal Garcia had been planning to step down from office at the end of the year.

Adding to the general anarchy earlier in the day in Acapulco, seven people were killed by a drug gang.

However, a conference of Mexican mayors staged in the United States yesterday highlighted the indifference to the massive problems south of the border.


Only one U.S. mayor - Jerry Sanders of San Diego - attended the inaugural cross-border meeting dealing, and his city was playing host.



The one-day meeting was initially scheduled for Ciudad Juarez, which last week cancelled its Independence Day celebrations amid raging, drug-fuelled violence.

More than 2,200 people have been killed in Juarez this year.

The dozen Mexican mayors who turned up urged the U.S. government to send more money to border regions from its $1.4billion Merida Initiative to fight drug trafficking.

They also asked for accelerated efforts to fly deported illegal immigrants to their hometowns in Mexico instead of returning them to border cities.



Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos said he has urged Juarez Mayor-elect Hector Murguia to work closely with the Mexican army and purge corrupt police officers. He said Tijuana has forced out 600 officers from a force of 2,500 under his watch.

Nuevo Laredo Mayor Ramon Garza said local police should focus on fighting petty crime.

'A criminal begins by parking illegally, tossing litter, stealing a car tyre,' he said. 'Then he steals a stereo, then he steals a car, then he robs a store, then he is ready to join organised.'