In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico -- just a hop, skip and a jump over the border from El Paso, TX -- gunmen for a drug cartel assassinated "an American consulate worker and her husband . . . and . . . the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children" in separate but coordinated incidents as reported by Marc Lacey for The New York Times:
It was not the first attack against American interests in Mexico by traffickers. Unknown attackers shot at and hurled a grenade that never exploded at the American consulate in Monterrey in 2008. But the killings in Ciudad Juárez on Saturday afternoon of two American citizens and a Mexican national married to an American government employee appeared to take the violence to a new, brutal level. * * * The Ciudad Juárez shootings took place within minutes of each other about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. The victims had left a social gathering at another consulate worker’s home when they were attacked, officials said. The first attack was reported at 2:32 p.m. Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, the husband of a consulate worker, was found dead in a white Honda Pilot, with bullet wounds to his body. In the back seat, were two injured children, one aged four and one seven. They were taken to the hospital for treatment. * * * Another call came in exactly 10 minutes later, several miles away. This time it was a Toyota RAV 4 with Texas plates that had been shot up, with two dead adults inside and a baby crying from a car seat in the back, the authorities said. A relative identified the dead couple to The Associated Press as Lesley A. Enriquez, 25, a consulate employee, and her husband, Arthur H. Redelf, 30, from across the border in El Paso, Texas.
Lesley Enriquez was pregnant at the time of her murder as reported by Mary Beth Sheridan for The Wasghington Post, and her husband Arthur Redelf was an El Paso County Detention officer, and a ten-year veteran with the Sheriff's Office as reported by Adrienne Alvarez for KTSM.
Meanwhile, in the tourist destination of Acapulco, battles between rival cartels have left thirteen dead as reported by Nick Allen for the Telegraph:
The dead included five police officers who were attacked on a night-time patrol. Bodies of eight other men were also found around the popular holiday destination. They were riddled with bullets and four of them had been beheaded. * * * Acapulco is in Guerrero state and there were another 13 murders in other areas of the Pacific coast province over the weekend.
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