a suspected mexican drug cartel leader s arrest, sparks gun fights and burning roadblocks in mexico. it happened in northern tamaulipas, which borders the united states. friday, mexican authorities captured a cartel leader, and set off gun fights between cartel members and authorities. the gunman blocked off parts of the city with burning vehicles. three suspected cartel members died in the gun fights. several detained. parts of mexico remain in a violent battle between rivals from the golf cartel and los zedas. 20 years later, wounds remain for many who lived through the oklahoma city bombing. yes, if it s been 20 years. you ll hear from people forever changed by at take. and how one man who knew about the deadly plan is walking free.
states, in essence, flowing up to mexico. chris, know the two largest drug cartels. one called the federation and the other called the golf cartel, just those two cartels in mexico alone can count 100,000 soldiers. chris, the entire mexican soldier only has 130,000 soldiers. so, if those two cartels ever stop fighting each other and combine to take on the mexican army, i mean, this number of 6,000 murders in mexico, 500 kidnappings a month near the u.s. border could even get greater. so, i think what we re seeing here, as richard pointed out, is this is just the small epicenter that reflects the drug trafficking and how much it s worth to the mexican drug cartels to keep those traffic lanes open. the other thing about this, brad, maybe i m just reading about the most horrific incidents, but since this happened i have been doing