Absolutely incredible news footage of a recent firefight in the Mexican city of Reynosa , which left at least twelve people dead, and some 15 civilians wounded. This is the Mexican military in running battles with a heavily armed civilian army, paid to fight by those who profit hugely from the fact that cannabis is illegal in most of the United States :
Good Christ, listen to all that gunfire, you can hear grenades in there as well.
The city of Reynosa where this fighting broke out is, literally, hard up against the US border. The United States has a war, with casualties piling higher than Iraq or Afghanistan, in its own backyard.
I get the feeling Reynosa is maybe going to become as famous a foreign city name to Americans as Fallujah. More details on the deadly Reynosa street fighting :
Running gunbattles between federal security officials and drug gang members left about a dozen people dead here Tuesday.More HereA statement from the Mexican government said seven security officers and five gunmen had been killed. However, witnesses said a pair of middle school students attempting to flee the violence also were killed.
One estimate said 15 people — all civilians caught in the crossfire — were wounded.
Neither the federal police nor the Defense Ministry immediately released information about what was behind the shootouts, but they largely were blamed on gangsters taking aim at federal security forces.
The gunfights came as northern Mexican protesters — angry about job losses, diesel fuel prices and military presence in their towns — caused the shutdown of international bridges along the border from Brownsville to Laredo for the third time in three weeks.
Mexican officials speculated that the protesters may have been paid by gangsters.
The firefights, which reportedly involved automatic weapons and grenades, began when police stopped a vehicle at a checkpoint near an elementary school in an upscale neighborhood of Reynosa, according to news reports and witnesses at the scene.
That set off running gunbattles in six different parts of the city, with gangsters commandeering vehicles and using them to block intersections.
An arsenal had been retrieved that included machine guns and U.S.-made grenade launchers.
An industrial hub that’s home to many U.S.-owned factories, Reynosa is considered the territory of the Gulf Cartel drug-smuggling organization and its assassins, the Zetas.
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