The gunfire late Sunday and early Monday came in retaliation for the arrest of drug gang leader Juan Gerardo Treviño, who U.S. authorities describe as a founder and leader of the Northeast Cartel, the successor to the old Zetas cartel.
Ricardo Mejia, Mexico’s assistant secretary of public safety, said Treviño was a U.S. citizen and not a Mexican and he was deported Tuesday.
Copies of Mexican birth and baptism certificates and the equivalent of a social security card in Treviño's name circulated on social media sites Wednesday, suggesting he had Mexican citizenship. But the authenticity of those documents could not be verified. Searches in government websites using the data on the documents returned an “information not correct” response.
U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Monday that “I have raised our grave concerns about these incidents and the safety and security of our employees directly with the government of Mexico.”
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