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April 15, 2009
Hitmen's bloody reign all about logic
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Editor's note: To hear more from Karl's exclusive report on Juarez tune in tonight to AC360 at 10 PM ET.

Mexico police round up gang suspects in Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Mexico police round up gang suspects in Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Karl Penhaul
CNN

There are no welcome signs on the approach to Camargo. It's a hardscrabble Mexican border town and home turf for "Los Zetas," a gang of hitmen and corrupt former special forces cops on the bankroll of the Gulf Cartel. Local journalists explained if we went there we'd be getting "tangled up in the hooves of the horse."

They said Zeta gunmen recently smashed one reporter's fingers with a hammer as a warning to the media to stay away. The plaza was deserted - for a few minutes at least. Then the throb of engines broke the Sunday morning peace. Scores of pickup trucks with heavily tinted windows began circling. Occasionally a window would crack open. We were clearly being watched.

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Annie Kate   April 15th, 2009 7:10 pm ET

With this sort of activity going on in Mexico I would think we would get serious about securing our border so we do not soon have the same problem in our country. We need to plug the loopholes in our gun laws as well to keep the Mexican drug cartels from buying their guns and ammo here.

Luis Saavedra from Puerto Rico   April 15th, 2009 8:26 pm ET

It is a shame that the mexican people have to suffer from our irresponsibility consuming these drugs. It is time for the electorate to start start thinking straight, the legalization of cannabis is inevitable and politicians wont push for its legalization until it isn't risky to loose their positions. Quoting from a CNN video from yesterday, 15 million Americans consume marihuana every month, that's aprox. 5% and it fuels $8.7 Billion to the cartels. If we don't want to take the rights from the gun holders, then we should look for new solutions. America, start thinking straight.

Stan   April 15th, 2009 8:49 pm ET

Drugs in Prisions: Why aren't Correctional officers, Sergents, Lieutenats and all the workers at prisions searched before entering the prisions? The only way drugs get into any prision is by people bringing the drugs in, and not just threw visiting area. Officers bringing in cell phones as well as drugs, should be charged with a Felony and put in prision. Inmates are their to do time, not conduct drug business with people on the outside of the prision. We can stop the drugs coming in if we really put our 100% effort in it, the Cartel should not be able to run drugs into the United States.

nosmelone   April 16th, 2009 7:35 pm ET

The problem is already in our country and are basically sleeper cells and we have known about them for years. The Los Zetos are nuts and it really will take both the US and Mexico governments combined activity to start to get them out. Wow ! this sounds like a seceret combination I wonder where I've heard this before? Similar to Somali pirates to some degree and al Quida. A terrorist is still a terrorist no matter what we call them.

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