developing against the fight against the drug cartels in mexico, the latest target mexico s military. the new generation cartel took the fight to the next level, shooting down a military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing people, six of them last week. look at that as the country cracks down on drug lords, the cartel emerged as a new force and a violent one. my friend and colleague, news anchor at telemundo los angeles joins me this morning. julio, good to see you. good morning, jose good to see you. you destroy one group in mexico another rises to powerful. how powerful is this new cartel? it is a very powerful criminal group jose, very well organized, very dangerous. authorities were really surprised to see the violence these groups are capable of after they had an encounter on may 1st in guadalajara, one of
of the president s government now. julio out of los angeles telemundo news anchor. when we come back breaking news out of boston that we re going to share with you. we ll be right back. stay with me. building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. that s the value of performance. northrop grumman.
sending more federal police officers to protect the streets to patrol the area because, yes, authorities were surprised and are worried with this technology and sophisticated skills that the criminals are using. julio, how did this group get this much power, this much money? well president calderon started this strategy in 2006 to try and bring down big drug lords and they have been doing the same thing, so what happens is the main drug cartels are being fragmented for other criminal groups to come in and do their business so that s how the generation cops have started. now they ve managed to become a really organized organization. they have the controls even vera cruz which is the complete opposite side of the country and what they are doing is exposing cocaine and methamphetamine and so far we can say that the generation is enemy number one