(마약) 멕시코 마약갱단의 복수극
(마약) 멕시코 마약갱단의 복수극
A Mexican marine dies in an assault that killed a drug lord. Now his grieving family is massacred apparently in revenge. This is the CBE Evening News with Katie Couric. Turning to Mexico now in the drug wars that have ravaged황폐화하다 that nation. Last week, we told you that the government there had claimed a victory by killing a top drug lord. Tonight Jeff Glor tells us it appears in a chilling display of ruthlessness무자비함 the cartel has struck back.
It was a state funeral for a man hailed환호하다 as a national hero in Mexico’s drug war. Marine Melquisedet Angulo Cordova who died in a daring raid last week that also took the life of perhaps country’s most powerful drug kingpin두목, Arturo Beltran Leyva. Cordova told an example of courage in the face of terror. But just hours after laying him to rest, his family became an example of the ruthless savage야만적인 ways of Mexican gangs.
At least a dozen hit men executed Cordova's mother, brother, sister and aunt, storming into their home, spraying their living room and bedroom with bullets. This revenge killing is a massive embarrassment for the embattled전투태세를 갖춘 Mexican government. President Felipe Calderon had trumpeted과시하다 the raid last week as a major step forward in Mexico’s drug war. Leyva managed a quarter of the estimated $30 billion in illicit불법의 drugs that travel annually from Mexico to the United States.
Experts predicted a power vacuum in his wake and retaliation from cartels. But perhaps, nothing on this scale… the brutal execution of innocents! “Come after us and hang bodies up at noon in town as a warning, as a demonstration of who is in charge here.” Calderon committed 45,000 troops to fight drug gangs when he took office three years ago. And more authorities have captured or killed dozens of kingpins. Drug killings have skyrocketed. 15,000 deaths since early 2006, over 7000 this year alone. The family of this fallen soldier now become the latest members of that sad list… proof that Mexico’s horrific and ongoing drug war is far from over. Jeff Glor, CBS News, New York.