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Posts Tagged border war
US and Mexican police discover tunnel used to smuggle drugs across the California-Mexico border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 4/Nov/2010 14:15
“US and Mexican police have discovered a tunnel used to smuggle drugs across the California-Mexico border and seized some 25 tonnes of marijuana.
The tunnel, equipped with ventilation, lighting and a pulley system, was 550m (1,800ft) long but just waist high.
Police said it connected a warehouse on the US side with one in Tijuana, the main gateway for drugs into California.”
Mexico: 4 U.S. citizens killed in separate attacks
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Nov/2010 03:24
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — “Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.
Chihuahua state prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house.
On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11 a.m., Sandoval said.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-11-01-Mexico-drug-war_N.htm?csp=34
Checkpoint gunfire: between Mexicali and San Luis Rio Colorado
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:44
An exchange of gunfire between soldiers and thugs left one man dead near a checkpoint on the highway between Mexicali and San Luis Rio Colorado. (The area involved is just south of Calexico, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz.)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21102010/474737.aspx
Mexico / Texas Border lashed by gunfire and bombing
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:43
“Narco violence†was unleashed again in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas (bordering the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico). It surged almost simultaneously in the three main cities of this state, where there were attacks on government facilities, shootouts and innocent civilians wounded. In Matamoros (right across from Brownsville, Texas), a grenade was thrown at the military base of this border; four civilians and two soldiers were wounded. Neighboring businesses and a school were forced to shut their doors.
In Nuevo Laredo, shootouts and “narcoblockades†caused traffic chaos. A grenade was also thrown at a police facility, and yesterday afternoon stolen trucks and cars were used to block streets while rival gangs shot at each other. One of the blocked streets was where the U.S. Consulate is located.
And just outside Reynosa (right across from McAllen, Texas), a military convoy and a group of men in light trucks engaged in yet another shootout.”
Ciudad Juarez: 427 women murdered from 1993 to 2007 – but 252 murdered so far in 2010 alone.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:39
“All this, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas
Press records show that murders of women in the Ciudad Juarez area have taken place this year as follows: 16 in January, 9 in February, 28 in March, 15 in April and 17 in May. June closed with 29 victims, July with 25 cases and August ended with 41 violent deaths. The number for September was 44, a new record. October has already had 28 assassinations of women in 19 days. The 23 year old woman whose body was found abandoned on a street in Juarez just a couple of days ago died after a guitar string was wrapped around her neck and then was twisted until her head was severed.
While in fourteen years, from Jan. of 1993 to Dec. of 2007, there were 427 women murdered there, this year there have already been 252 such cases.”
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/10/20&id=ef318ad8e13db62ff513d003a1b946e7
“Women — many as young as fourteen — comprise 70 per cent of the Juárez workforce. They eke out a four-dollar-a-day living in the maquiladoras — sweatshop factories that have mushroomed along the border since Mexico signed up to the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992. Yet in addition to exploitation and squalor, the women of Ciudad Juárez are oppressed by a murder rate that has attracted worldwide revulsion.”
http://backspace.com/notes/2003/11/the-women-of-jurez-demand-justice.php
Texas National Guardsman slain in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:20
“The Texas National Guard today has confirmed that a man murdered in Ciudad Juarez this Wednesday, Jose Gil Hernandez, 22, of El Paso Texas, was an off-duty private first class assigned to the Headquarters Battery 3rd Battalion, 133 Field Artillery.
Gil Hernandez and another man, Rafael Ramirez Reza, 43, were gunned down from a moving vehicle by an unknown group of armed men as they spoke outside of a home in the colonia Revolucion Mexicana in south Juarez. Another man, Manuel Galindo, 19, survived the attack and was hospitalized.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/texas-national-guardsman-slain-in.html
Agents feared Mexican drug cartel attack on border dam
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:23
Falcon Lake Dam
“An alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up a dam along the Texas border — and unleash billions of gallons of water into a region with millions of civilians — sent American police, federal agents and disaster officials secretly scrambling last month to thwart such an attack, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Whether or not the cartel, which is known to have stolen bulk quantities of gunpowder and dynamite, could have taken down the 5-mile-long Falcon Dam may never be known since the attack never came to pass.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7033818.html
Municipal Official, Son Murdered in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:08
“A municipal commissioner and his son were murdered over the weekend in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, prosecutors said.
Rito Grado Serrano and his son, Rigoberto Grado Villa, were killed at their house in Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, on Saturday night.
Several gunmen went to the house after 8:00 p.m. Saturday and opened fire on the 59-year-old Grado Serrano and his 37-year-old son, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/municipal-official-son-murdered-in.html
TIjuana: 18 Dead Since Sunday
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 15/Oct/2010 16:06
There are 18 the confirmed deaths since a wave of violence that began last weekend.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/tijuana-violence-18-dead-since-sunday.html
Texas: Falcon Lake Killing Blamed on Blunder by Cartel lower-level Operatives
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 15/Oct/2010 16:03
Members of the Mexican military search for David Hartley's body in Falcon Lake.
“BROWNSVILLE — A global intelligence company Wednesday said the death of U.S. citizen David Michael Hartley on Falcon Lake was a case of mistaken identity in a turf war between rival drug cartels.
Hartley, who was shot during a Sept. 30 sightseeing trip to the Mexican side of the binational reservoir, was shot by Zeta cartel enforcers because he was mistaken for a spy of the rival Gulf Cartel, according to the report by STRATFOR, and Austin-based think tank specializing in intelligence and international issues.
The report goes on to say Hartley’s body likely was destroyed as Los Zetas went into “damage control†mode and that the lower-level operatives responsible for the unauthorized strike against him now are on the Zetas’ hit list.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/falcon-lake-killing-blamed-on-blunder.html
Severed head of Investigator “delivered to military in suitcaseâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 14/Oct/2010 11:44
Tiffany Hartley with husband David, who has been missing since September 30. The lead Mexican investigator in his case has been beheaded Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319997/Severed-head-Mexican-police-officer-Rolando-Armando-Flores-Villegas.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz12LuGglMR
Lead Mexican investigator Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was hunting for the men who killed a U.S. citizen, a Texas man who was jet-skiing on Falcon Lake, in Texas.
The Investigator’s decapitation is a ‘message to White House’: Mexican drug cartels are declaring that the U.S. ‘no longer controls border’.
“The lead Mexican investigator hunting for an American man who disappeared after he and his wife were ambushed on Falcon Lake has been beheaded, a Texas lawmaker claimed today.
The severed head of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase, Aaron Pena said today.
His wife Tiffany has told police she and her husband were ambushed by pirates while jet-skiing on the popular lake on September 30.
They shot her husband in the head, she claimed. She tried to rescue him but was forced to abandon his body when the pirates opened fire at her.
His body still has not been found.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319997/Severed-head-Mexican-police-officer-Rolando-Armando-Flores-Villegas.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Violence in Mexico: not simply “a country at war”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Oct/2010 18:28
“Among all the talk of beheadings, bodies burned in acid, and hangings from bridges, there are a few missing pieces of context. Such as the fact that Mexico’s murder rate in 2009 was actually lower than it was in 1999. Or that the murder rate in Yucatán is comparable to that of Montana and Wyoming. Or that Washington, D.C.’s murder rate is nearly quadruple that of Mexico City’s.
Violence in Mexico is intense, but it is also highly localized along the borders, and in Michoacan, Guerrero, Sinaloa, and Zacatecas. This is because most violence is related to competition among drug gangs for exclusive access to production and transit routes.
But rather than focusing on these causes of violence, most U.S. media simply portray Mexico as a “country at war.†I think that comparisons of Mexico with Pakistan as a country “on the verge of becoming a failed state†are ridiculous. I think that Hillary Clinton’s description of drug cartel violence in Mexico as an “insurgency†is both irresponsible and frightening (in terms of its foreign policy implications).”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/citizen-journalism-and-drug-trafficking.html
9 arrested, weapons cache confiscated in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion on 11/Oct/2010 18:14
“It looks like you can get whatever guns you want in Mexico. Face it, if they have the network in place to get drugs from Central America and meth ingredients from Asia, the cartels have the network in place to get whatever weapons they want, from wherever they want.
Maybe if the people of Mexico were armed they wouldn’t have to cower beneath a corrupt government and criminals. Until the people down there are armed you’ll keep licking both of their boots.”
– by Anonymous
In response to a citizen complaint about the presence of armed persons, authorities arrested nine males, and confiscated the following weapons in Amacueca, Jal.:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/recent-military-ops.html
A plea for help from citizens of the city of Monterrey, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Oct/2010 21:15
“To whom it may concern:
We, the citizens of the city of Monterrey, Mexico, are tired of the violence created by the drug cartels and the organized crime. We don’t know where or who to ask for help since our governor and president have failed to protect us.
We have been living in fear since February this year and until now we have no answer on how to stop this. The drug cartels and the organized crime have taken our peaceful city along with its citizens prisoners; they have kidnapped men, women and children.
We never asked for this nor support any group or organization that is in connection with them. We never thought that something like this could happen to us and now here we are living a nightmare, our worse nightmare.
Today we are asking for your help. We know that you have the power to communicate and inform people about our real situation. We as good Mexican citizens are imploring for your valuable help. Please, inform the rest of the world about our current situation and let people know that we are pleading for clemency.
If there is an organization out there that can help us to find a solution, we are in the best position to accept the help. We don’t trust our government since our government has failed protecting us and there are no warranties for our lives.”
Double Homicide in Brownsville, Texas: Mexican drug cartel Executions
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Oct/2010 20:23
The Brownsville Herald
“Authorities have linked Thursday’s double homicide on FM 511 in the northwest outskirts of Brownsville. Texas, to Mexican drug cartels and are investigating the killings as spillover violence from the Tamaulipas war between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
The bodies of Omar Castillo Flores “El Omarcilloâ€, 25, and Jose Guadalupe Lopez Perez, 38, were found inside a gray Dodge Ram pickup that was riddled with bullets, police spokesman Eddie Garcia said Friday. He said the truck had a Mexican license plate on the back bumper, and he identified both men as residents of Mexico.
At the crime scene, police recovered numerous shell casings of an unknown caliber. The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, a multi-agency group led by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, assisted police in the investigation but deferred all comment to Brownsville police as the lead agency in the case.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/two-zetas-executed-in-brownsville-texas.html