This from the Washington Post:
Cartel gunmen shot U.S. agents, Mexican state governor says
By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, February 16, 2011; 11:49 PM
MEXICO CITY - The governor of the state where two U.S. federal agents were shot by the roadside said Wednesday that the ambush was carried out by cartel gunmen.
The governor of San Luis Potosi, Fernando Toranzo, told reporters that the agents were attacked by the same criminal organizations responsible for the unprecedented violence in his state. He did not name the cartel.
Jaime Zapata, 32, an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was shot and killed Tuesday by unknown assailants four hours north of Mexico City. Another ICE agent riding with him was wounded and transferred to a hospital in Houston, where he is in stable condition. He was identified by the Houston Chronicle as Victor Avila.
The Mexican government is engaged in nothing less than a guerrilla war, albeit the guerrillas are motivated not by ideology, but purely by greed.
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