An armed gang stormed the Caballo Blanco, or White Horse, nightclub in the Mexican city of Coatzacoalcos at around 10pm on Tuesday night. He disappointed human rights organizations and security experts by creating a new permanent crime-fighting force largely from military recruits and putting it under military control. Security experts have long said that corruption — at all levels of government — helped ensure the failure of a military-led offensive against organized crime launched in , which instead sparked the extreme violence still tormenting Mexico today.
The attack took place nearly eight years after 52 people were killed after gun men burst into a casino in the northern city of Monterrey and set it ablaze. This time, the governor of the state of Veracruz, where Coatzacoalcos is located, said early evidence suggested the attack was motivated by efforts to sell drugs at the bar. Photographs from the scene showed the bodies of naked women lying between toppled tables and chairs.
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