The violence that has racked one of Mexico’s largest and richest cities escalated Thursday afternoon when gunmen entered a casino in the San Jaronimo section of San Pedro Nuevo Leon terrorizing the customers and using incendiary grenades and gasoline to turn the building into a blazing inferno, resulting in the deaths of 61 people and numerous more injured, some critically. San Jaronimo is an enclave within the municipality of San Pedro, south of the Santa Catarina River which separates municipal Monterrey and is home to some of Monterrey’s wealthier citizens. This attack is a game changer in President Calderon’s 5 year war against various drug trafficking organizations (DTO’s) sometimes called “cartels” by American media. This cowardly attack against citizens and MORE
