Massacre of Americans shows Mexico's drug war worse this time around

By THE MANILA TIMES

Nov 07, 2019 3:05 pm

Relatives of the LeBaron family arrive at the site where nine US citizens, three women and six children related to the extended LeBaron family, were slaughtered when cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road near Bavispe, at the Sonora-Chihuahua border, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

'It is not that the government would have to declare war on the drug cartels, it is rather that the drug traffickers have declared war on the government,' Gonzalez said, 'and in that situation the government has to respond in legitimate self-defense and with proportional force.'

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