MEXICAN ARMY MAKES AMERICAN COPS LOOK LIKE CUB SCOUTS (UPDATE)

Soldiers shot to death a wounded teenage girl before executing 21 other young gang members after all had surrendered

Borderland Beat reports that President Obama has urged Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to conduct a credible investigation of the “Tlatlaya 22” killings by the Mexican army.

In response, the Mexican Attorney General’s office and the Mexican Defense Department both issued the same statement:

“With full respect for the rights of the people" we have begun "a complete and thorough investigation to get to the truth" of what happened on Monday, June 30 at Pedro Limón community in the municipality of Tlatlaya in the state of Mexico.

However, the Defense Department then insisted that the 22 young people were killed only because Mexican soldiers “repelled an armed attack.” So much for that credible investigation.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters in Washington that:

We have seen these most recent reports and we've been following this case since June. We have encouraged the government of Mexico to investigate and we understand that several Mexican entities are investigating this incident. But as in all cases where security forces use lethal force, we think it's imperative that there is a credible review of the circumstances undertaken in response to them and the appropriate civilian authorities should conduct those investigations.

It’s no secret that Mexico’s military and police have resorted to periodic killing sprees. Most notable was the October 2, 1968 “Tlatelolco Massacre” during which soldiers and police killed up to 300 students that were participating in a peaceful demonstration in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

My question is why has the President and his administration stuck its nose into the internal affairs of Mexico? Granted, the killing of the 22 young people on June 30 appears to be a gross human rights violation. But with the United States facing one international crisis after another – the Iranian nuclear threat, the Ukraine, North Korea, and ISIS – why in the hell is the Obama administration meddling with a relatively minor incident in Mexico?