Mexico Deploys Troops to Outskirts of Mexico City
09.21.2012 at 05:14am
Note— This deployment may represent another “firebreak” crossed concerning the criminal insurgencies taking place in Mexico. In the past Mexico City has been immune to much of the violence taking place in the other regions of that country.
Mexico Deploys Troops to Outskirts of Mexico City
Reuters
MEXICO CITY, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Mexico has sent soldiers to patrol a suburb of Mexico City for the first time to combat a rise in drug-related violence that is beginning to encroach on the capital.
From late Wednesday, a combined force of around 1,000 soldiers, federal police and local police took to the streets of Nezahualcoyotl on the capital's eastern flank, which has suffered from a dispute between two rival drug cartels.
