Mexico is a narco-terrorist state and the gangs are not getting these weapons from your local gun shop

Anyone else notice how the Democrats and particularly Obama don't want to deal with the heavy lifting like the growing threat of a narco terrorist country on our southern border. Why? Because that hopey changy thing is not grounded in reality... it's unicorn poop.

Mexico official's convoy ambushed

Gunmen in Mexico have attacked a convoy with the top security official in the western state of Michoacan, killing four people and wounding 10.

Officials say Public Safety Secretary Minerva Bautista was among the injured, but is now recovering.

Some 20 people with assault rifles and grenades carried out the attack.

The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known. Michoacan is home to one of Mexico's most feared drug gangs, known as La Familia.

Ms Bautista's convoy was ambushed as she was returning from the opening of a regional fair on Saturday, officials say.

The attackers used assault rifles, grenades, a grenade launcher and a sniper rifle capable to hit through bullet-resistant materials.

"In the ambush, they used concentrated fire from these types of weapons, forcing her [Ms Bautista] and her escort to crash into a trailer truck that they had pulled across the road," State Attorney General Jesus Montejano told Mexico's Milenio TV station.

Two of Ms Bautista's bodyguards and two bystanders were killed in the attack. Most of the wounded were bystanders.

The attack comes a day after seven people, including six police officers, died in a shoot-out with suspected gang hitmen in the city of Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the US.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has poured thousands of armed police and troops to wrest control from the powerful gangs.