Juárez violence: U.S. assistance is considered, Warring cartels may try for truce

Mexico sure is a messed up country anymore ! The whacked out Drug Cartels are every bit as ruthless and Insane as Al Qaida and the Taliban ! But I am not so sure that the U.S, military has to step in and lend a hand ! The Cartels are primarily killing each other ! That's like a bonus . now if we can just get Al Qaida and the Taliban to do the same , the world could be a better place !?

El Paso Times
EL PASO -- The deadly street shootings, decapitations and other killings in Juárez are taking place at a higher pace than at the same time last year even as talk of a drug cartel truce has increased along with the U.S. role on Mexican soil.

The number of homicides in the Juárez area has surged past 130 already this month, according to an El Paso Times tally, an increase over the 37 homicides recorded by Chihuahua state investigators in January 2008. Las year, 1,609 homicides occurred.

Juárez is considered the current murder capital of Mexico, but killings have also flared across the state of Chihuahua and in other parts of Mexico.

The Dallas Morning News, citing anonymous sources, reported that if the bloodbath escalates, U.S. officials
are contemplating the possibility of an enhanced U.S. role in battling Mexican drug cartels, including joint operations with Mexican forces and the involvement of U.S. contractors, military and intelligence personnel.

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The violence among the drug cartels may eventually be settled by the cartels themselves.

On Dec. 11, representatives of several drug cartels met at a seafood restaurant in Culiacán, Sinaloa, to form a truce because the fighting is interfering with the regular business of narco-trafficking, the Rio Doce weekly in Sinaloa reported earlier this month.

The Rio Doce report stated that the gathering included representatives of reputed drug lords Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the Beltran Leyva brothers, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes of the Juárez cartel and the Arrellano Felix family of Tijuana.

The deal among cartels reportedly is supposed to be reviewed Friday.

Meanwhile, the slayings continue in Juárez.

Eleven homicides occurred in Juárez on Sunday, seven on Monday, six on Tuesday and nine on Wednesday. And on Thursday, at least six men had been killed by the evening, including an unidentified man found tied up and stabbed to death not far from the new U.S. Consulate, state police said.