Gun battle in Mexico: 43 dead

[Angel Eyes]

http://news.yahoo.com/fierce-gunbattle-kills-43-west-mexico-cartel-territory-040547250.html?cache=clear

ECUANDUREO, Mexico (AP) — The latest in a series of clashes between Mexican authorities and a powerful, fast-growing drug cartel turned into the deadliest confrontation in recent memory, with 42 suspected gang gunmen and one Federal Police officer killed during a three-hour firefight at a remote western ranch.

The battle on Friday followed two other recent unprecedented attacks by the cartel, one that killed 15 state police officers and another that shot down an army helicopter with a rocket launcher for the first time in Mexico's history. The death toll from all three is at least 76 people at a time when the Mexican government claims crime is falling dramatically and the interior minister recently insisted the country "is not in flames."

When a government official insists the country is not in flames, the country is in flames.

[griz]

when the Mexican government claims crime is falling dramatically

Has to be true, they have strict gun control.

[Jamisjockey]

More success in the war on drugs.

[jim in anchorage]

Holder can fix it. He has a plan...

[Angel Eyes]

If any of you go hunting in that area and you come across a satchel full of money, leave it alone.

[Perd Hapley]

Holder can fix it. He has a plan...

Is that the sell guns to gangs plan, or the show-trial civil rights investigation plan? Or the lying to Congress plan? You know, he's got too many great plans to list them all. The ignore IRS political harassment plan...

[jim in anchorage]

Is that the sell guns to gangs plan, or the show-trial civil rights investigation plan? Or the lying to Congress plan? You know, he's got too many great plans to list them all. The ignore IRS political harassment plan...

I think it's tne Obama go play the race card plan.