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The arrest of 755 suspects in Operation Xcellerator inspired reports by CBS' Bill Whitaker in Los Angeles and NBC's Mark Potter in Nogales. The operation was a sweep by the Drug Enforcement Agency targeted at Mexican narcotraffickers in this country. CBS' Whitaker examined the violence south of the border with dynamic news footage from TV Mexcanal of a shootout in Reynosa. Reporter Miguel Turriza was forced to prostrate himself in the shelter of a highway divider as he was caught in crossfire. In Juarez, the city is plastered with posters threatening to kill the mayor: "The Chief of Police resigned last week after drug thugs started killing his officers one by one." NBC's Potter looked at the north-of-the-border source of carnage, as 90% of the narcotics cartels' firepower come from "dealers and gunshows in the United States, where firearms laws are more lenient than in Mexico."
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