因美国海岸警卫队人员可能遭到袭击而向德克萨斯州和塔毛利帕斯州部署军队之际，卡特尔增加了无人机的使用。由于一起事件，墨西哥与美国边境的紧张局势正在加剧，这次是在东部，该事件已悄然向媒体报道。十天前，在德克萨斯州和塔毛利帕斯州之间的里奥格兰德地区巡逻的美国海岸警卫队人员与从墨西哥一侧越境的疑似武装人员交火。目前没有人员伤亡的报道，但当局已在边境两侧分别采取行动--这一部署的核心重新引发了人们对华盛顿干预墨西哥领土的担忧。
The deployment of troops to the Texas and Tamaulipas area over a possible attack on US Coast Guard personnel coincides with increased drone use by cartels Tensions are rising along the Mexico-U.S. border — this time on the eastern side — due to an incident that has quietly made its way to the press. Ten days ago, U.S. Coast Guard personnel patrolling the Rio Grande area between Texas and Tamaulipas exchanged gunfire with suspected armed men who were crossing from the Mexican side. No injuries or fatalities were reported, but authorities have launched separate operations on both sides of the border — a deployment that, at its core, reignites fears of intervention by Washington on Mexican territory.
过去一年半以来，这一直是同样的老调--这是唐纳德·特朗普重返白宫以来来自华盛顿的常见威胁。根据共和党的说法，墨西哥“毒品恐怖组织”的活动对美国人构成了风险;如果墨西哥不采取更多措施来阻止他们，我们就会这样做。墨西哥在此期间试图证明自己，将罪犯大规模驱逐到北部，逮捕卡特尔成员和与他们勾结的政客，并实施边境行动。回应总是在承认和新要求之间摇摆不定。
It’s been the same old tune for the past year and a half — the usual threat from Washington since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. According to the Republican narrative, the activities of Mexican “narco-terrorist organizations” pose a risk to Americans; if Mexico doesn’t do more to stop them, the argument goes, we will. Mexico has tried to prove itself during this time, with mass deportations of criminals to the north, arrests of cartel members and politicians colluding with them, and the implementation of border operations. The response always wavers between acknowledgment and new demands.
两国边界的分界线形状正在发生变化； characterize它的现象变化迅速。在三年前，成千上万的移民等待与边防队的预约，这一过程他们通过手机上的应用程序来管理。而如今，无人机和信号干扰器的现实已占据主导。试图从墨西哥非法越境进入美国的移民的拦截人数已暴跌至每月1万人以下。相比之下，打击 cartels用来监视边境的无人机的行动在增加。周一，一位美国军方指挥官告诉路透社，仅在过去一个月内，他们就检测到了"378次入侵"，这一趋势正在上升。
The dividing line between the two countries is changing shape; the phenomena that characterize it shift rapidly. Where three years ago thousands of migrants waited for appointments with Border Patrol, a process they managed with an app on their cellphones, the reality of drones and signal jammers now prevails. Apprehensions of migrants attempting to cross illegally from Mexico into the U.S. have collapsed to fewer than 10,000 a month. In contrast, the shooting down of unmanned aerial vehicles used by cartels to monitor the border are increasing. On Monday, a U.S. military commander told Reuters that in the past month alone they had detected “378 incursions,” a trend that is rising.
正是在这种背景下，科罗格兰河上的枪击事件发生了，这促使双方在边界部署军队。这次交火据称发生在9月26日，靠近德克萨斯州加尔塞诺镇，该镇是 tamaulipas州卡马尔戈镇的镜像。据称，正是因为墨西哥总统克劳迪娅谢内布姆周一上午在例行新闻发布会上表达了一些怀疑。她说："有人说有枪击从墨西哥边境射向美国。我们要求提供证据证明情况确实如此，因为我们没有证据。"
It was in that context that the shootout on the Rio Grande occurred, prompting the deployment of troops on both sides of the border. The exchange allegedly took place on September 26 near the Texas town of Garceño, a mirror of the Mexican town of Camargo in Tamaulipas. Allegedly, because Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed some skepticism on Monday morning during her regular press conference. “They said there had been shots fired from the Mexican border toward the U.S. We have asked for evidence that this was the case, because we have no evidence,” she said.
美国驻墨西哥大使罗纳德·约翰逊周日接受了墨西哥政府的信息，同时在社交媒体上赞扬了墨西哥向该地区部署500名士兵。他说：“我们打算共同巡逻共同边界的两侧，保护我们的社区，让犯罪和恐怖组织更难开展活动。”“墨西哥军事指挥官将与部署的美军直接沟通。”这次部署为边境南侧增加了另一层制服人员，墨西哥政府数月来一直在边境北部地区开展行动，正是为了应对来自北部的压力。
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson had accepted his government’s information on Sunday while praising the deployment of 500 Mexican troops to the area on social media. “Together, we intend to patrol both sides of our shared border, protect our communities, and make it more difficult for criminal and terrorist organizations to operate,” he said. “Mexican military commanders will communicate directly with deployed U.S. forces.”The deployment adds another layer of uniformed personnel to the southern side of the border, where the Mexican government has been running the Frontera Norte operation for months precisely in response to pressure from the north.
这次行动有数千名士兵被派往边境，是Sheinbaum政府对特朗普及其内阁言论的第一次回应，他在第二个任期内专注于来自南方的有组织犯罪，而不是移民，就像他第一个任期一样。
That operation, with thousands of soldiers sent to the border, was the Sheinbaum administration’s first response to the rhetoric from Trump and his cabinet, focused in his second term on organized crime coming from the south rather than on migration, as occurred in his first term.
所述交火可能发生在边界以北，其模式类似。所谓的狭窄边界，从雷诺萨到墨西哥军队部署的新拉雷多，以卡特尔控制而闻名。安全咨询公司Lantia在其主要城市，从新格雷罗城到迪亚斯奥尔达斯城，经过米尔、米格尔阿莱曼和卡马戈，有六个以上的犯罪集团在活动。
The possibility that the exchange of fire occurred as described north of the border follows familiar patterns. The so-called narrow border, the stretch from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo where Mexican troops have been deployed, is known for cartel control. Security consultancy Lantia places more than half a dozen criminal groups operating in its main municipalities, from Nueva Ciudad Guerrero to Ciudad Díaz Ordaz, passing through Mier, Miguel Alemán, and Camargo itself.
在过去的二十年里，移民走私网络还利用这些城市将人群转移到河对岸。事实上，卡马戈是墨西哥社会的一段痛苦记忆，2021年该市农村地区发生了19人大屠杀，其中大部分是试图进入美国寻找工作的移民。当时的凶手是一群州警察，但袭击动机从未完全清楚。从EL PASYS S美国版获得更多英语新闻报道
Over the past two decades, migrant smuggling networks have also used these municipalities to move groups of people across the river. Camargo, in fact, is a painful memory for Mexican society after the 2021 massacre of 19 people in a rural area of the municipality — mostly migrants trying to cross into the U.S. to find work. The killers on that occasion were a group of state police, but the motive for the attack was never entirely clear. to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition