'Drug gang' clash kills 21 near Mexico-US border

I liked this point from Erica Greider:

The Mexican government accused the Zetas drug gang of killing 116 people whose corpses have been found in a series of mass graves near the American border.Police have detained 17 suspects and believe gunmen from the notoriously violent cartel dragged the victims off buses passing through the San Fernando area of northeastern Tamaulipas state."As of (Tuesday) we can confirm that a total of 116 people have been found dead as a result of criminal actions apparently caused by actions by the Zetas criminal group," Mexico's attorney general Marisela Morales told reporters.

A detained leader of Mexico's notorious Aztecas drug gang claims to have ordered 80 percent of the thousands of murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez over the past two years, officials said Monday.Mexican authorities said Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, 32, arrested in Juarez on Saturday, has confessed to taking part in several of Mexico's highest-profile slayings, including the fatal shootings of a US consular staffer and two other people in March and an ambush at a party of teenagers that left 15 people dead in January.

Mexico's attorney general on Friday said he had no evidence that the country's drug gangs were involved in terrorism, after a deadly attack on two police cars in a northern border city."We don't have any evidence in the country of activities of narcoterrorism as it has occurred in other countries," Arturo Chavez Chavez told journalists. He was unable to confirm whether a car bomb had been used in Thursday's attack, in which suspected drug gang members rammed a car which may have contained explosives into two police vehicles.

Twenty-two suspected Zetas drug gang members have been held in the latest arrests over the killings of 145 people found in mass graves this month in northeast Mexico, the justice ministry has said.The arrests brought the total to 55 detained, including 16 police officers and a suspected ringleader, for alleged involvement with the mass graves found in San Fernando, Tamaulipas state, near the US border.

The Mexican government accused the Zetas drug gang of killing 116 people whose corpses have been found in a series of mass graves near the US border.Police have detained 17 suspects and believe gunmen from the notoriously violent cartel dragged the victims off buses passing through the San Fernando area of northeastern Tamaulipas state."We can confirm that a total of 116 people have been found dead as a result of criminal actions apparently caused by actions by the Zetas criminal group," Attorney General Marisela Morales told reporters.

The Mexican government accused the Zetas drug gang of killing 116 people whose corpses have been found in a series of mass graves near the US border.Police have detained 17 suspects and believe gunmen from the notoriously violent cartel dragged the victims off buses passing through the San Fernando area of northeastern Tamaulipas state."We can confirm that a total of 116 people have been found dead as a result of criminal actions apparently caused by actions by the Zetas criminal group," Attorney General Marisela Morales told reporters.