Mexican family gunned down as a "warning" from drug lords

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After a Mexican soldier was killed in a drug-bust, the remaining people in the cartel gunned down his family.

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Ensign Melquisedet Angulo Córdova, a Special Forces sailor killed last week during the government’s most successful raid on a top drug lord in years, received a stirring, national tribute in which the secretary of the navy presented his mother with the flag that covered her son’s casket.
Then, the next day, only hours after the grieving family had finished burying him in his hometown, gunmen burst into the family’s house and sprayed the rooms with gunfire, killing his mother and three other relatives, officials said Tuesday.

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It was a chilling epilogue to the navy-led operation that killed the drug lord, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, and six of his gunmen. And it appeared to be intended as a clear warning to the military forces on the front line of President Felipe Calderón’s war against Mexico’s drug cartels: not only you, but your family is a target as well.

There...are no words.

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The gunman killed Ensign Angulo’s mother, Irma Córdova Palma, and his sister Yolidabey, 22, just after midnight on Tuesday as they slept, according to Tabasco State officials. Josefa Angulo Flores, an aunt, 46, died on her way to the hospital and his brother Benito died shortly after he was admitted to the hospital. Another sister, who was not identified, was injured.

They killed almost the entire family. I hope that no one else involved in the raid suffers the same consequences as these poor people.

Yorokobi wrote:

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After a Mexican soldier was killed in a drug-bust, the remaining people in the cartel gunned down his family.

This is the reason why police special forces fighting mob and the like mantain anonymity. The officer who arrested Totò Riina was known for years only by codename. Sad news, but not unexpected.

Funny that you'd mention Riina, as I just finished reading a book on the Corleone Mafia groups. The current Mexican mess sounds a lot like what happened under Riina.