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New Civil Guard Trained to Take on Cartels
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Latest line of defense in Mexico
- Duration 1:54
- Date Oct 24, 2011
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If you plan on taking a hunting or fishing vacation in Mexico this year you may have some company.
Armed guards now used by many lodges to keep their grand safe from running and with the drug cartels.
Prime dove -- and bass fishing zones near the US border are also battle zones and Mexico's drug war.
Forcing more than 250 hunting -- to shut there are threatening the country's tourism industry.
We blow off the boat ready 5% of business if people from the states is to call her a lot both -- main.
Both -- target market and their engines because of by the media and -- And here we are.
Five year battle between the government -- the cartels has left 43000.
Dead.
And expose Mexico's police force as complicit.
Entirely new force the civil gardens being formed to fight the cartels.
They have to trust that these new guys that we put in in the streets.
But did the -- we're gonna reconstruct the trusts of people always.
-- result.
Yeah.
Training here begins with rubber knives.
-- and pistols rifles and urban assault tree.
Prepare for the battlefield that many Mexican cities have become.
There's also training to defend against what may be the most potent weapon in the cartel's arsenal the 100 peso notes.
Hasn't -- yet Tennessean pretzels we don't know.
The new civil guard will earn three times the ordinary police salary -- about 600 dollars a month.
In Monterrey Mexico Steve Harrigan Fox News.