Six U.S. Consulates in Mexico Ordered Evacuated Following Killing of 3 U.S. Consulate Associates
Mexico City (Mar 14) – Following the murder of three U.S. Consulate associates in Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, the U.S. State Department has issued an evacuation order for six U.S. Consulates in Mexico. Consulates in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros, Tamaulipas and Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have been ordered evacuated.
Travel to northern cities in Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, has been postponed. The order, according to a statement, will be lifted April 12.
Authorities in Mexico stated that, two incidents took place within minutes of each other in Ciudad Juarez.
White House National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer released a prepared statement regarding the incident. “The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,” adding “including a U.S. citizen employee, her U.S. citizen husband, and the husband of a Mexican citizen employee.”
NSC Council Spokesman Hammer also added President Obama, “shares in the outrage of the Mexican people at the murders of thousands in Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in Mexico.”
“He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice.”
NSC Hammer also expressed that the United States would work with Calderon’s government “to break the power” of drug trafficking organizations.
A Warden Message was issued to inform American Citizens traveling to or residing in the Mexican state of Chihuahua that the US Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has placed El Reco Bar off limits to US government personnel due to security concerns.
source: U.S. State Department Press Release, Consulate General of the U.S. Cidad Juarez, Mexico site
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concerned
March 14, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Mexicans, illegals in US and Mexicans in Mexico, killed more Americans than all middle east countries combined. Some sources show up to 15.000 US citizens killed by mexican criminals on both sides of the boarder. US gov should punish them severely and even invade them..
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Scott W.
March 14, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Yeah – I really don’t think that would be in the best interest of anyone right at this moment..
I remember some time ago reading an article regarding a group of Mormons “farming” in Mexico complaining about the crime and corruption. That group should pay a little more attention to the U.S. State Departments travel advisories, stop hiding from the “U.S. Taxman” and move their little “social group” back to the states. That of course unless they themselves need to be in a society that lacks many of the statutes of law found nthe United States that do in fact restrict certain religions from practicing fundamentally flawed values.
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