Military presence expands; 7 more killed in Juárez

not much you can say about this crap anymore , we should line up our military along the border and close it off completely

Mexican military operations will expand in response to a wave of violence in Juárez and the Mexican state of Chihuahua that an expert described as unprecedented and part of a narcotics war being waged across Mexico.

The fighting has yet to escalate into the narco-terrorism that rocked Colombia in the 1980s but it is still a national security concern for Mexico, said Tony Payan, a political science professor who studies Mexico at the University of Texas at El Paso.

On Monday, the violence in Juárez continued with seven deaths, which came after the weekend slaying of Juárez police director Juan Antonio Roman Garcia and the killing of seven men in the town of Palomas, across the border from Columbus, N.M.

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"You had never seen the kind of violence you are looking at in Ciudad Juárez," Payan said. "The only other time you had seen a tremendous violent time in Juárez was after the Lord of the Skies (the nickname of reputed Juárez cartel leader Amado Carrillo Fuentes) died in the operating table (causing) an internal war within the cartel for control," Payan said.

Payan said that the nearly 300 homicides so far this year in the Juárez area could surpass the 500 murders in the years after the 1997 death of Carrillo Fuentes, whose organization has allegedly continued under the leadership of brother Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.

Payan said there appears to be a war between drug-traffickers aligned with Carrillo Fuentes and those associated with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (the reputed
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leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel whose son was killed last week in Culiacan) and brothers Hector and Arturo Beltran Leyva.

"I am more and more convinced there must have been some breakdown in the three or four more powerful criminal organizations. I don't think you can talk about cartels anymore, that language is old," Payan said.

As traffickers battle each other, the Mexican army and federal forces have been cracking down in an attempt to stop the bloodshed. More than 2,500 people have

been cracking down in an attempt to stop the bloodshed. More than 2,500 people have
died throughout Mexico this year in crime and drug-related violence, the Associated Press reported.

The current violence is unpredictable