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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2007 
Strong Antidrug Operation in Michoacan, Mexico
 BYLINE
| | Soldiers stand guard outside a trailer yard in the port of Tampico, northern Mexico, October 5, 2007. Mexican soldiers seized at least 10 tons of cocaine after a gunbattle with drug smugglers at a northern port town on Friday, the army said. The shootout happened during an anti-drugs operation in Tampico in Tamaulipas state, territory of the Gulf Cartel, one of the two most powerful Mexican drug gangs. Picture taken October 5, 2007. (Reuters) |
Mexico City - A total of 100 members from the Mexican Army, the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) and the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) came to the Lazaro Cardenas Port, state of Michoacan, to start an operation against drug trafficking this week.
An official document by AFI and PFP said details would not be revealed yet, but the managing personnel would be displaced from the Lazaro Cardenas Port.
The document stated some data on the operation would be given in the next hours.
It is suspected there is a great traffic of drugs in the place.
Last week, members of the Mexican Army seized more than two tons of pseudo-ephedrine in the Mexican port of Manzanillo, Colima, where a load of over 19 tons of the same drug belonging to an alleged Mexican net dealing with drugs bound for the US was confiscated in January.
The Mexican northern state of Tamaulipas is also included in the national operations. A total of 251 grenades, 5,000 bullets, rifles and armoured trucks were used in a confrontation with drug-traffickers in this state.
The soldiers operating in Tamaulipas found a 60-mm Rocket He rocket-launcher, with a projectile inside, and three drug-traffickers were arrested in Abasolo, whose identities have yet to be revealed.
Last Friday, the Mexican troops located a stockpiling center and found 5.5 tons of marihuana and 7 kilograms of marihuana seeds in Tamaulipas. |
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