Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero fought back violently against the military and have used violence to strke fear on the civilian population. In addition, journalists have also been targets of the drug gangs when they have reported on their criminal activities. In a phone call between President Barack Obama and President Felipe Calderon, Obama offered his condolences for the loss of Mexican lives in the gunfight, which included Carlos Guajardo. The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) in Mexico released the following statement: "Generals, chiefs, army officers and air force personnel, together express their condolences of our supreme citizen commander Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of the
Consuelo Reyes-Calderon Hourwich Reyher. Reyes-Calderon was also a music lover and took singing lessons. She was a long-life friend of Madame Aída Doninelli (1898-1996), a soprano from Guatemala. Reyes-Calderon and Vernon shared a Washington apartment from 1951 until Vernon’s death in 1975. They used to spend time in the summer at Highmeadow, biographer Alma Lutz and Marguerite Smith's country home in Berlin, New York, who were good friends from the National Woman's Party. She became a United States citizen by 1970. When Vernon died in 1975, Reyes-Calderon was noted for her devotion to her companion. According to archive records, she corresponded with