"Tropical storm kills 3 in Mexico" by Associated Press / July 2, 2011
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities confirmed three deaths from Tropical Storm Arlene yesterday as remnants of the storm continued dumping rain over the country’s central highlands.
The US National Hurricane Center warned that rain could continue for 48 hours, causing life-threatening flash floods and mudslides as the system moved toward the Pacific.
The Atlantic season’s first tropical storm came ashore over Mexico’s central Gulf coast early Thursday, bringing heavy rains to a wide swath of the country over the course of the day but causing only sporadic damage....
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Related: Tropical Storm Arlene makes landfall in Mexico
Never saw in my printed paper:
"Gunmen kill police chief in Mexico" by Associated Press / June 28, 2011
MONTERREY, Mexico — Gunmen burst into the office of the police chief of a city in northern Mexico and shot him to death yesterday, authorities said.
Santa Catarina Police Chief German Perez was shot at least eight times, said a Nuevo Leon state police official, who agreed to give details of the case only if not quoted by name.
Witnesses told police that gunmen in two cars and three pickup trucks arrived at police headquarters in the afternoon and went straight to Perez’s office.
Perez’s killing came a day after three city Santa Catarina police officers were detained on suspicion of spying on officers in a neighboring town for the Zetas drug cartel.
See: Mexican Oil Siphoning Story Stinks
Right, "former" government commandos.
See what I'm talking about when I say the biggest drug dealers are government?
The city is a suburb of Monterrey; the region has been plagued by constant killings and reprisals since a rupture between the Gulf and Zeta cartels in late 2009.
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Really become a pattern with the Globe, 'eh?
Next Day Update:
"Next year’s presidential election"
I'll worry about that then.
