New phase seen in Mexico’s drug war From: latimes.com
Tagged: Mexico, policePosted on: May 20th, 2008
Analysts say those moves last week show that the killing of Edgar Millan Gomez on May 8 has opened a dangerous new phase in the country’s drug war.
Millan Gomez, the 41-year-old acting director of Mexico’s federal police, knew he was a target, and he shuttled among three homes in a bid to outwit his nemesis: Arturo Beltran Leyva, the leader of one faction of the so-called Sinaloa cartel.
The police official lost that battle.
In the days since he was gunned down, officials have revealed that Millan Gomez’s killers probably knew that he slept in more than one home. They even had the keys to his front door, a stunning illustration of the cartels’ power to gather intelligence about government operations.”*
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