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
the main cities in the country, the whole country. the federal authority sies were taken an operation to try and capture the leader of this group and the criminal group responded really quickly. they blocked some main avenues in guadalajara, they sent buses to fire and they managed to bring down military helicopter with 16 soldiers onboard. six died. and this is very sophisticated technology. this is an unusual step right? normally the cartels, first, they fight amongst themselves then when they confront the military, they do so in a pretty conventional warfare kind of way, but this is an rpg blowing a helicopter out of the sky. this is a new level in mexico. that s right. it hasn t been seen before and authorities are really surprised and worried, so they responded with a massive operation, sending thousands of soldiers to guadalajara and a dozen cities which is where the criminal group is based and they ve been