Trump offers aid to Mexico to battle drug cartels after nine members of a Mexican-American family were killed there
MEXICO CITY - Gunmen killed nine women and children in the bloodiest attack on Americans in Mexico for years, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to offer to help the neighboring country wipe out drug cartels believed to be behind the ambush.
“Nita and four of my grandchildren are burnt and shot up,” the man says, apparently referring to Rhonita Baron, one of the three women who died in the attack.A relative, Julian LeBaron, called the incident a massacre and said some family members were burned alive. “We’ve been here for more than 50 years. There’s no-one who doesn’t know them. Whoever did this was aware. That’s the most terrifying,” said Alex LeBaron, a relative, in one of the villages inhabited by the extended family.
Trump has praised Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his Mexican counterpart who took office 11 months ago, for helping reduce flows of Central American migrants to the United States, The government has registered more than 250,000 homicides in the last dozen years, most of them related to the drug war. Falko Ernst, senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Mexico, said Trump’s tweet suggests he may be gearing up to pressure Mexico over security, especially with his campaign under way for re-election in November 2020.
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