The president offered to help Mexico root out violent drug cartels after a clash between gangs killed at least nine Americans.
President Trump on Tuesday offered to help Mexico “wage WAR on the drug cartels” after a shootout left at least nine Americans dead.
A relative of one of the victims said his cousin was on her way to the airport when she was shot and killed in her car along with her four children near La Mora, a decades-old religious settlement about 70 miles south of the Arizona border. Her car had been set on fire with the bodies of the victims inside, according to Agence France-Presse. Two other vehicles, containing the bodies of two more women and two children, were found several hours later.
There have been more than 250,000 murders in Mexico since 2006, when the Mexican government controversially deployed its army to combat drug trafficking. The Los Angeles Times recently noted that homicides in Mexico are “on track to exceed last year’s record numbers,” while kidnappings are up 9 percent and extortion attempts up 37 percent.
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