Tijuana top cop who fought cartels is out of a job

[ChunkyMonkey]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/...police_cleanup

Mexican Army Retiree: Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola has earned respect from many many folks here in US including myself. He has been fighting the cartel with moderate success by our standard. Now he's getting canned. Shame!

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press – 2 hrs 25 mins ago

TIJUANA, Mexico – Julian Leyzaola tried with unprecedented zeal to end the grip of drug cartels on one of Mexico's most notoriously corrupt police forces: In two years as top cop, he blanketed key parts of Tijuana with vetted officers, new patrol cars and military commanders, while purging hundreds of allegedly corrupt cops.

The retired army officer survived a drug-gang assassination campaign that killed dozens of his officers. He says he rejected an $80,000-a-week offer from an emissary of Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Now he's out of a job.

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[zteknik]

not suprising-hes going against the grain of the machine
hed get a promotion if he turned the other way

[sniper7]

not suprising-hes going against the grain of the machine
hed get a promotion if he turned the other way

+1 on that.

corruption on all levels

[RobertB]

$80K a week? Hell, I'd turn a blind eye for a few months at least!

[carnplanenut]

Just remember, it's all of those American guns crossing the border that is to blame, not the drug lords

[Irving]

A family member was watching Border Wars, and he was telling me how they get all their guns from the USA. He said they show all these trucks packed full of brand new AK-47's crossing into the border. That may be true, but I can't imagine that they can't get full auto AK-47's from the Chinese for cheaper than they can get semi-auto ones from us.