Des tueurs “sous contrats” pour les cartels mexicains

Des tueurs “sous contrats” pour les cartels mexicains

Trois personnes travaillant pour le consulat américain à Ciudad Juarez (Mexique) ont été assassinées la semaine dernière. Un article du Wahington Post (4 avril 2010) montre à quel point la situation devient incontrôlable pour les “autorités” (les guillemets semblent de rigueur quand on a lu l'article).

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/03/AR2010040303141.html?)

»A cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has Evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate. […]

»Officials on both sides of the border have watched as the Aztecas honed their ability to locate targets, stalk them and finally strike in brazen ambushes involving multiple chase cars, coded radio communications, coordinated blocking maneuvers and disciplined firepower by masked gunmen in body armor. Afterward, the assassins vanish, back to safe houses in the Juarez barrios or across the bridge to El Paso. […]

»Arabit said investigators have no evidence to suggest the Barrio Azteca gang includes former military personnel or police. It is, however, working for the Juarez cartel, which includes La Linea, an enforcement element composed in part of former Juarez police officers, according to Mexican officials.

»"There has to be some form of training going on," said an anti-gang detective with the El Paso sheriff's department, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of his work. "I don't know who, and I don't know where. But how else would you explain how they operate?" [...]

»The gangs are a binational phenomenon whose members exploit the mistrust between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement, said Howard Campbell, a professor at the University of Texas in El Paso and an expert on the drug trade. "They use the border to their advantage," Campbell said.»

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