Dr. Eowyn:
Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
Lupita Murillo and Michel Marizco report from Sásabe, Sonora, for KVOA News4 Tucson, April 30, 2014, asking if “a unit of Mexican Army soldiers who patrol right on the Arizona border” has “gone rogue.”
This small group has attacked U.S. citizens, and even challenged U.S. federal agents within the U.S.:
- In January 2014, soldiers from this lonely outpost of the Mexican Army drew their guns on U.S. Border Patrol agents just 50 yards into the United States. The Mexican soldiers carried G-3 rifles and claimed they’d gotten lost while pursuing a drug smuggler.
- In March, they opened fire on Javier Jose Rodriguez, a young Tucson man visiting family in Sásabe when he was driving around the town early on a Saturday morning after drinking beer with friends. Shot in the arm and in the side, Rodriguez spent three weeks at the University of Arizona Medical Center. His medical…
View original 403 more words
