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July 13, 2007
Calderón Sends Elite Forces to Terrorism Locations
The Boston Globe carried a story by Héctor Tobar today which reports that Mexican president Felipe Calderón is sending a 5000-soldier special forces brigade to protect strategic energy sites in the country, after a wake of terrorist activity by members of the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (Popular Revolutionary Army). The attacks, which targeted three pipelines and a switching station in Guanajuato and Queretaro, were said to be in retaliation for the disappearance of two EPR members in Oaxaca last year.
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Posted by crispy at July 13, 2007 09:15 AM