1. ICE agents, working on human trafficking
2. Jaime Zapata (killed), 32, office in Laredo, TX; also border patrol station in Yuma, AZ.
3. Victor Avila (wounded in leg), office in El Paso, TX.
4. Driving from San Luis Potosi to Mexico City, after a meeting with American personnel.
5. Ambushed on highway Querétaro-San Luis Potosí in San Luis Potosi state, February 15, 2011, around 3 p.m.
6. Were followed by los pistoleros after the agents stopped to buy food.
7. Driving armoured Chevrolet Suburban with diplomatic licences.
8. Stopped by 10-15 men in two vehicles.
9. Jaime Zapata was the driver.
10. One of the agents opened the window a little to Identify Themselves as U.S. diplomats. The gunmen fired Through the open window.
11. Los Zetas ("so it seems.") "... The researchers recovered 90 caps from where they were attacked the officers."
12. Zapata's family in Brownsville, TX and ICE is under police protection.
"We must remember that while we lost to an ICE agent this week, our Mexican colleagues have lost about 2 thousand members of the security forces and over 30 thousand civilians in the past four years" ;, reflects on his official blog the U.S. military. " James A.
Winnefeld, jefe del Norte de Comando United States
FROM HISTORY:
Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 - c. February 9, 1985) was an undercover agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration who was abducted on 7 February 1985, and then tortured and murdered, while on assignment in Mexico.
The torture and murder of Camarena prompted a swift reaction from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched Operation and Legend, the largest homicide investigation ever undertaken DEA. Investigators soon identified Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and his two close associates: Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero as the primary suspects in the kidnapping.
In 1984, acting on information by Camarena, 450 Mexican soldiers backed by helicopters destroyed a 1000-hectare marijuana plantation known as 'Rancho Búfalo', where more than 3,000 farmers worked these fields, the annual production which was later valued at $8 billion. The drug lords were outraged and set to investigate the source of the leak. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo ordered the kidnapping of Enrique Camarena on 7 February 1985, which apparently was done in broad daylight by corrupt police officers in his payroll. Camarena was tortured and bludgeoned to death soon after. Although his body was found on March 5, I May Have Been Killed That about one month Before: His body pathologists Examined Who Believed the actual date of death WAS more likely around February 9. Camarena's body WAS found in a rural area Outside a small town by the name of La Angostura in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.
en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Enrique_Camarena
A federal judge sentenced Rafael Caro Quintero, the R-1, and Rafael Fonseca Carrillo Ernesto "Don Neto", two of the lí ; historical leaders of drug trafficking in Mexico, 40 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar, and the Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, occurred on February 7, 1985.
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Survivor: It was an ambush
agents and asked for help via cell phone shortly after a helicopter arrived.
www.pulsoslp.com.mx / Noticias.aspx
Three times I shot Jaime Zapata, the U.S. agent who was killed after being attacked with Victor Avila by an armed group Highway 57, said Michael McCaul, who heads a House subcommittee on National Security in the United States.
"They put an AK-47, as I have understood, in the crack in the window and just began to fire away," said McCaul in the middle of the San Antonio Express-News.
According to agents and U.S. officials, Zapata and Avila had stopped for lunch and just returned from the Pan American Highway, where the gunmen who lurked and traveled in two vehicles overtook them and blocked them ranking step forward and backward of the van in which Americans were traveling.
One version published by the Diaro Reform, the American agent Victor Avila, a survivor of the attack on a highway San Luis Potosí, confirmed that it was ambushed by at least 15 men armed.
said Avila had an initial visual contact with the armed group in a location of the road from San Luis Potosi to Queretaro, where they stopped to buy food.
In his statement, said Avila when the truck they were traveling gunmen blocked their passage and left the asphalt, Jaime Zapata, who was driving the truck, moved the transmission of the truck parking and insurance automatically deactivated doors, which was used by criminals to try to open the vehicle.
Immediately after a scuffle and originated in a small area of the window that was open was where armed men entered the barrels of their rifles to shoot them.
Zapata, who led unit, accelerated before collapsing at the wheel. The agents had used a cell phone for help and a helicopter from the Mexican federal police arrived shortly afterwards.
"This attack was not a case of mistaken identity," said Henry Cuellar, a member of the national security committee. DIPLOMATIC IMPLICATIONS
Regarding the relationship between Mexico and the United States, Jorge Chabat, an expert on national security in Mexico City, said the U.S. attaches great importance the protection of its agents, causing a crisis in the relationship.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said it is time that the White House to reconsider its policy toward Mexico after the attack on the two officers, according to information released by The Texas Tribune .
Cornyn said Zapata is one of about 140 American citizens who have died in Mexico in the last two years.
The Department of Homeland Security announced today that it has matched with the office of U.S. Attorney General and created a joint task force to help Mexico in its investigation into the attacks. The FBI will lead the investigations.
Tuesday's attack has renewed discussions about whether Mexico needs to consider the participation of United States military.
Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical intelligence from Stratford, with headquarters in Austin, said officers were probably in the "wrong place at the wrong time."
"Certainly, there is something more than the United States government can do in Mexico, but are limited by the sovereignty of Mexico and really the sensitivity of Mexican people to the U.S. raid, actually see the Americans as a threat. "
According to a statement, Zapata and his companion were attacked as they returned to Mexico City after meeting with members of U.S. personnel in San Luis Potosi.
www.radioformula.com.mx / notas.asp
1. According to Houston Chroinicle, official sources declined to be identified reported that agents from the Bureau of Immigration Services and U.S. Customs (ICE), Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila, were identified as diplomats when ambushed in San Luis Potosi. Both stopped to eat and then were chased by another vehicle to the place where they were arrested. Zapata said the truck door from the inside is identified with his diplomatic credentials and then shot him. Before he died, called for help on his cell phone and a helicopter arrived shortly after the PF. The murderers had already fled.
2. The agent of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Services U.S. (IPA), Victor Avila, is recovering in a satisfactory manner at home. He and his partner, Jaime Stomp, were shot while they are driving their van in SLP, it died in the attack.
3. The U.S. Embassy in MEX revealed that the two Inmigracióny Customs agents had traveled to SLP for a meeting with other U.S. officials in the state, returning to the CD of MEX unarmed because "the government Mexico does not permit U.S. personnel carrying arms. "
attackers followed U.S. agents in Mexico road
Zapata and Avila returned to Mexico City from San Luis Potosi, which is about 400 kilometers, after a meeting with U.S. personnel, according to the embassy said, after whereby early versions ranging from Mexico City to Monterrey.
El Universal (Venezuela) http://internacional.eluniversal.com/2011/02/18/int_ava_atacantes-siguieron_18A5184731.shtml
Friday February 18, 2011 24:41
Mexico City. - The gunmen who killed an American officer and wounded another on Tuesday a highway in Mexico were about 15 and followed them into two trucks, according to the testimony of survivors gathered today for the Mexican daily Reforma.
Victor Avila agent reported that his colleague died Ely, Jaime Zapata, had a first contact with their attackers in a stop made for food, according to U.S. officials who had access to the statement quoted by daily, reported DPA.
Upon leaving, the staff of the Office of Inmigracióny Customs Enforcement (ICE), which undertakes research on criminal organizations and government liaison from other countries, were followed at a distance by two trucks. One stepped forward and blocked their way.
The armored vehicle, officials with diplomatic plates, was stopped and several of the attackers approached.
"One of the Americans put the transmission in 'park' while the other lowered the window a bit to try to identify themselves as diplomats," the newspaper said.
But, moving the transmission is automatically deactivated door locks and the gunmen tried to open the car. There was a struggle, and, apparently, the attackers entered the assault rifles gun out the window ajar and opened fire. According
said the U.S. embassy, the police were unarmed because "the Mexican government authorizes U.S. personnel carrying weapons"
Zapata and Avila returned to Mexico City from San Luis Potosi, which is , about 400 miles, after a meeting with U.S. personnel, as stated the embassy, after the first versions under which ranged from Mexico City to Monterrey.
works in San Luis Potosi an academy of the Mexican Federal Police.
After the attack, the U.S. consulate in Monterrey warned its citizens to avoid traveling to that state and also warned about travel to surrounding areas, as the resort town of San Miguel Allende in Guanajuato.
