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A damaged pick up truck marked with the initials C.D.N., that in Spanish stand for Cartel of theNortheast, stands on the street after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel gunmen, in Villa Union, Mexico, Sunday, Dic. 1, 2019. Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force rolled into a town near the Texas border and staged an hour-long attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 21.
Authorities said suspected members of the Cartel of the Northeast started to attack government offices on Saturday in the town of Villa Union, a small city in Northern Mexico sitting nearly an hour away from the U.S. border. In response to the attack, Mexican officials said they took “immediate and forceful” action, resulting in a series of clashes between Mexican security forces and cartel members on Saturday and Sunday. : Earlier this week, Trump said he plans to declare Mexican cartels terrorist groups in response to increasing gang violence in the country during an interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
the move could be a pretext to send the U.S. military into Mexican territory to combat cartels, violating Mexico’s sovereignty, they say.in 2019 to historically high levels, and two recent high-profile incidents of cartel violence have put pressure on Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to act. In October, security forces captured the son of notorious drug kingpin El Chapo, only to
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