Borderland Beat: Drug Lord's Death Could Empower Zetas: "Cardenas Guillen, known as “Tony Tormenta” or “Tony the Storm,” was killed Friday during a two-hour shootout in an operation that included 150 marines, three helicopters and 17 military vehicles, the Mexican navy said in a statement. Four of his gunmen and three marines also died during the fighting in the city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas. A local reporter and a soldier were killed in related mayhem.
President Barack Obama called his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, on Saturday morning to reaffirm U.S. support for Mexico’s efforts to fight the cartels, and express his condolences for the troops killed in the shootouts, according to a White House statement.
Mexican presidential security spokesman Alejandro Poire touted Cardenas Guillen’s downfall as “another meaningful step toward the dismantling of criminal groups.”
The Zetas, apparently, also celebrated."
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