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 TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Mexico is sending some 3,300 soldiers and federal police officers to fight drug gangs in the crime-plagued border city of Tijuana, which has become a major smuggling route for cocaine and methamphetamine entering the United States.
The offensive expands a crackdown on organized crime by President Felipe Calderon, who sent 7,000 troops to his home state of Michoacan immediately after taking office on Dec. 1.
"We will carry out all the necessary actions to retake every region of national territory," Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Ramirez Acuna said in a news conference Tuesday. "We will not allow any state to be a hostage of drug traffickers or organized crime."
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