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The perils of Operation Tijuana

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published February 13, 2009.

The results of a major Mexican military offensive indicate an unprecedented number of drug and arms seizures, and a record number of high-ranking drug lord detentions. Dubbed Operation Tijuana, the strategy seeks to eliminate the drug trade in Mexico's northern border with the United States. But two years into it, violent murders are at a record high, journalists are being intimidated by authorities and human rights abuses are getting harder and harder to document. FSRN's Victoria Martinez reports from Tijuana.

Click here for the full newscast for Friday, February 13, 2009