US Consulate in Juarez Mexico – killings

Tonight’s news referencing the murders of US Consulate employees – who were US citizens in Ciudad Juarez was first reported as a drive-by killing of three Americans in that city.   It read as an assault against government to intimidate the alternative tourist trade.  The fuller actual news later  is a concern for diplomats and the issues of  tactical and strategic billeting and exchange of Federal and State anti-narcotics/crime agents of Mexico and the USA.

The Consulates of either nation should not, and can not  be used as a shield or cover employment for those agents.  It is entirely possible, that these people died as American or anti-authority targets.  It is also possible that they were believed to be narcotics agents.

Americans and Mexicans can petition their state and federal governments for better assistance to law enforcement, and join an increasingly diminishing – yet still evidently constant  demand – market for contraband narcotics and recreational drugs.

Like cocaine, it is all too bloody by the time any buyer obtains and uses it.