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Assassination in Mexico - Head of Federal Police Shot To Death In Brazen Attack

May 9, 2008

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The national coordinator of Mexico’s battle against organized crime was slain Thursday by an assassin hiding in his home in what appeared to be the latest revenge killing by one of the country’s most notorious drug cartels.

Edgar Millan Gomez, 41, was the third leading federal security official to be killed in Mexico City in a week.

Police sources said the so-called Sinaloa cartel was behind the attack on Millan Gomez, the nation’s third-ranking police official and acting director since April 1 of the Federal Preventive Police, an elite, 22,000-member force.

The Sinaloa cartel is one of several organized-crime groups that have grown rich transporting Colombian cocaine, locally manufactured methamphetamine and other illicit drugs to the United States.

The assassination came a week after Millan Gomez held a news conference in the capital of Sinaloa state to announce the arrests of a dozen suspected cartel hit men.

His killing is a dramatic escalation in the drug war, analysts said, and a clear indication that the Sinaloa-based traffickers have been hit hard by recent government raids and arrests.

Seven mid-ranking federal police officials have been killed in the last month. Like Millan Gomez, they were linked to recent actions against drug traffickers. In all, more than 1,000 people have died this year in violence related to organized crime, according to tallies kept by Mexican news media. Federal officials estimate that 2,500 people were killed last year.

“This morning, Mexico lost one of its most valuable men, a security professional who placed himself at the service of his country,” Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said in a news release.

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One Response to “Assassination in Mexico - Head of Federal Police Shot To Death In Brazen Attack”

  1. conservativelegalizer on May 9th, 2008 11:16 pm

    The violence here in Mexico and the prosperity of the Mexican mafia will continue to increase in power as long as they can make huge profits in the US, Mexico and elsewhere. The war on drugs and the cartels has been going on for so long, wasting so much money. Didn’t we learn from prohibition of alcohol in the US? That was what gave the Sicilian mafia the profits and power they needed to spread terror, and the prohibition of drugs just continues that trend for them and the other mafias that participate.

    As long as there is a demand for the product and it is prohibited, though you may jail mafia members and attack the cartels, someone will take their place and make huge profits to supply the demand. The mafia doesn’t fear either the US DEA or Mexican army very much, or any government’s drug war. They do fear legalization, regulation and control much more, and legalization in the US and Mexico (and the rest of the world) is the only thing that will put an end to their party and end this rain of murder and terror here.

    I am not a drug user, don’t drink alcohol and don’t favor drug or alcohol use and see the damage it inflicts on lives; drug abuse has devastated the lives of a few close family members, just as has alcohol. I am quite conservative on almost every other issue, but I must agree with William F. Buckley that legalization is the only long term solution. Prohibition does not work. It’s time the stupidity stops, and lives will be saved. When will anybody have the balls to do it?

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