Thursday, December 1, 2011

STRATFOR Above the Tearline: Mexican Cartel Violence In Texas

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20111129-above-tearline-mexican-cartel-violence-texas

In this week’s Above the Tearline, we are going to look at an incident that appears to be a Mexican cartel-related murder in Texas.

Last Monday, in the Houston area, several undercover officers from a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Task Force (known as a HIDTA) were following a tractor-trailer from south Texas transporting drugs in an undercover operation. Four suspects ambushed the truck, firing shoulder weapons, shooting and wounding a task force police officer and killing the driver, who media have identified as an undercover government informant.

Read more: Above the Tearline: Mexican Cartel Violence In Texas | STRATFOR

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