President Obama Responds to Murders of US Consulate Personnel in Juarez, Mexico
The violence in Juarez, Mexico just continues to get worse and worse with now even US consulate personnel not safe from attack:
However, after sustaining several gunshots, they drove onto oncoming traffic on Francisco Villa, and crashed into other vehicles. The man and wife were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police who rushed to the scene said they discovered a baby in the backseat of the Toyota; the baby was uninjured.
In the second attack, at almost the same time Saturday, police reported the shooting death of a man who is married to woman who works at the U.S. consulate in Juárez. He was shot at while driving on Avenida Insurgentes in the Segunda Burocrata neighborhood.
Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a statement Sunday that President Obama was outraged by the news of three murders.
“(Obama) extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions,” he said. “In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice.”
A couple of weeks ago, the consulate received a bomb threat, but officials did not find anything after an exhaustive search of the building.
Mexican authorities did not know Sunday whether the attacks are related, or whether the victims were targeted because they worked for the consulate, which is an extension of the U.S. State Department. [El Paso Times]
What really surprises me about this story is how exposed these consulate personnel are to attack. You would think considering the violence in Juarez that they would have some kind of security detachment to get them back and forth from work in Juarez to their homes in El Paso?
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I relly don't know what the US gobernment is waiting for to act appon all this happenig in Juarez Mx. I know there is alot this gobernment can do to combat cartels in Juarez.Like Satellite surveillance, CIA invovment..ect ect.. Somethimg must be done soon before this violence breaks in to our city in El Paso..
The conventional wisdom seems to be that the cartels will not allow the violence to spill over simply because they do not want to draw any further attention of the US government to what is going on. Most Americans outside of the El Paso region do not know what is going on down there.
However, the fact they targeted US consulate workers is troubling because it shows that they are more than willing to directly confront the US.