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Posts Tagged border war
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
Jaoquin “El Chapo” Guzman will bring war to Tijuana
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Oct/2010 20:17
Tijuana– Headed by Fernando Sanchez Arellano (member of the Arellano Felix dynasty), the Tijuana cartel is recovering territories and markets it had previously lost. They kill, kidnap and offer drugs on a massive scale to a state that is already flooded with them, the ministerial police have been corrupted and are now considered the armed wing of the cartel.
People who live in the city recognize that the violence has diminished, but there are still murders and decapitations, kidnappings and shootouts which are largely ignored by the central government in Mexico City.
There is also suspicion in Tijuana that there is some type of pact between the state government, local business leaders, and the news media to collectively turn a blind eye to these actions.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/el-chapo-will-bring-war-to-tijuana.html
Death toll in Juarez and other parts of Mexico increases on a daily basis.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Oct/2010 20:14
“Drug cartels in Mexico are fighting and often shoot anyone in their path — and one local family said they lost a relative because of it.
According to some reports, more than 1,000 people have been killed in Chihuahua, Mexico since the beginning of this year. Now, the violence has hit home for one Duke City family.
“My brother was the joker of the family. He was really happy all the time,” the victim’s sister, Carmen Alcantar, said.
Alcantar said her brother, Miguel, had a girlfriend and a 2-year-old daughter in Chihuahua. Despite warnings from his family, Miguel went to see them last week.
“We’ve always told him not to go down there and that he should perhaps get his family here,” Alcantar said.
“Two cars drove up beside him and there were two others with him in the vehicle. They took out their machine guns and they were masked men,” Alcantar said.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/new-mexico-family-loses-relative-to.html
University of Texas-Brownsville freshman murdered in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Oct/2010 20:10
Jonathon William Torres Cazares
“UTB-TSC is mourning the death of an 18-year-old freshman who was shot and killed just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas, allegedly by members of Mexican organized crime.
University officials said Jonathon William Torres Cazares died on Sept. 30 while traveling to visit family.
He is believed to be one of two people killed after the bus he was riding in was hijacked, according to a U.S. official who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/university-of-texas-brownsville.html
Blood keeps flowing in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Oct/2010 20:07
“Nine persons, among them a Municipal Police captain, were shot yesterday afternoon, and during the morning another five Juarenses (read: Juarez residents) were deprived of life violently, so that Tuesday’s total number of victims reaches 14.â€
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/10/06&id=7cc077f509708ba32b81580aca04b285
Muder Rampant in Juarez, Mexico -more than 8.5 homicides per day
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 5/Oct/2010 01:18
“September closed in Juarez with a total of 289 violent deaths, not quite as many as the 336 registered in August, or the 313 in June, but one more than the total in July.
As of September 30, 2326 homicides have been registered so far this year, still on record pace. In all of 2009 there were 2657 homicides on the year.
At the current pace through September the yearly total will be 3110 at the end of 2010, more than 8.5 homicides per day.”
Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Lone assailant throws grenade into crowded
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 5/Oct/2010 01:15
“Twelve people were wounded in a grenade attack on a plaza in Guadalupe, a city in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, a city spokesman said on Sunday.
A lone assailant threw the grenade into the crowded plaza late Saturday, the city official said.
Eight adults and four children were wounded in the attack, which was captured by security cameras installed near city hall.”
Texas Governor campaigns on border security
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 5/Oct/2010 01:08
“During a recent campaign visit to Austin, TX, Texas Governor Rick Perry met President Obama on the tarmac. He requested a few minutes of Obama’s time to discuss border issues.
Obama patted Perry’s shoulder three times and did not accept the letter. An Obama Aid eventually took the letter. The actual meeting lasted about two minutes.
At the time, although there was not much press coverage, Governor was indignant that President Obama would have time to do a campaign job, but was not ready to discuss border issues.
“Texas has spent 230 million dollars for border law enforcement, technology, and aircraft.”
In 2005, Gov. Perry announced a comprehensive border security plan for Texas and awarded $6 million in grants to support Operation Linebacker, an initiative developed by the 16-member Texas Border Sheriff’s Association to deter illegal immigration and prevent border-related crime.
In 2007, Gov. Perry signed legislation to provide $110 million in state funds to amplify border security efforts in 2007, and in 2009 he signed legislation providing an additional $116 million.
“So Texas Rangers, SWAT teams, and military forces can rapidly respond to violence along our border.”
“Until Washington gets serious, Texas will fight to make our border safe.”
Fourth Mexican mayor in less than six weeks killed by Assassins
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Sep/2010 16:41
MEXICO CITY: Assassins have killed a fourth Mexican mayor in less than six weeks as a drug war continues to engulf formerly calm parts of the country, authorities said.
Gunmen ambushed and shot dead Prisciliano Rodriguez Salinas and an employee on Thursday night at his ranch near the industrial centre of Monterrey, in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. Mr Rodriguez was mayor of the town of Doctor Gonzalez, just north-east of Monterrey.
On Friday Ricardo Solis, who was to be sworn in as mayor of another town, was shot and critically injured in the border state of Chihuahua. President Felipe Calderon condemned the ”cowardly” killings and pledged to continue fighting the drug cartels.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/another-mayor-dies-20100925-15rkt.html
The Warlord of Tamaulipas: Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 22:31
Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
“He grew up with Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and since 2003, he has headed the Gulf cartel, the second most powerful cartel in the country. Stealthy, Eduardo Costilla, El Coss, overcame internal divisions and now runs a fierce war in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León against their former allies, Los Zetas, who do not forgive him for his alliance to the Sinaloa cartel.
The PGR and the SSP claim that the capo has a presence in over 15 states and the United States, the DEA, including the Department of the Treasury consider him a threat to the security of the US.
Since late 1996 when Osiel Cardenas Guillen took over as head of the Gulf cartel, Eduardo Costilla Sanchez had a definite place in the structure of this criminal organization. Known as El Coss, he became the man most trusted to Cardenas Guillen and was known as “Mata Amigos” or “Killer of Friends” for his tendency to betray.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/warlord-in-tamaulipas.html
Mexican Drug Cartels, U.S. Corruption
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Sep/2010 18:07
It is axiomatic that organized crime cannot exist without public corruption. Indeed, given that the Mexican drug cartels have well-established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in 230 locales throughout the United States from which they pull $20 to $30 billion in cash a year, one can only wonder how they have gotten away with so much for so long without some inside help.
Well, the problem apparently starts — but certainly does not end — at the border where dirty U.S. border agents such as Martha Garnica make a mockery of law enforcement as reported by Ceci Connolley for the Washington Post:
She lived a double life. At the border crossing, she was Agent Garnica, a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was “La Estrella,” the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of the U.S. border.
Martha Garnica devised secret codes, passed stacks of cash through car windows and sketched out a map for smugglers to safely haul drugs and undocumented workers across the border. For that she was richly rewarded; she lived in a spacious house with a built-in pool, owned two Hummers and vacationed in Europe.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/mexican-drug-cartels-us-corruption.html
Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire across U.S-Mexico border.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Sep/2010 17:21
U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio Grande, U.S. authorities said Monday.
No Border Patrol agents were hurt during the “fire fight” early Saturday in Mission, agency spokeswoman Rosalinda Huey said. She did not say whether Border Patrol gunfire hit anyone, citing the ongoing investigation.
“The firing they received came from the Mexican side,” Huey said.
Reports of bullets whizzing across the border from Mexico also are on the rise. At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where drug violence has killed more than 4,000 people since 2009, making it one of the deadliest cities in the world.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/border-patrol-agents-exchange-gunfire.html
Border factories caught in drug war’s crossfire
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Sep/2010 19:06
By Lynn Brezosky – San Antonio Express-News
McALLEN, TX — The head of an association of border factory owners Thursday said the sector is in crisis mode as unrelenting drug violence in northern Mexico has spooked investors into curtailing operations at some plants and rethinking expansion at others.
“In February, there was a total loss of civil control in Reynosa and it’s never been re-established,†said Dan McGrew, president of the Reynosa Association of Maquiladoras and Manufacturers. “We’re in the worst of all worlds.â€
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/border-factories-caught-in-drug-wars.html
Another Mexican Mayor killed by Drug Cartel Gunmen
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 10/Sep/2010 17:01
Mayor Alexander Lopez Garcia
“The San Luis Potosi state government said in a statement, citing witness testimony, that four hooded assailants burst into the town hall in the municipality of El Naranjo at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Two of the gunmen made their way to the offices of Alexander Lopez Garcia, the 35-year-old mayor, and opened fire, the statement said.
The slain mayor had been in office since October 2009, while the area where El Naranjo is located – a highland town of some 20,000 inhabitants – has seen much of the violence affecting San Luis Potosi, blamed on turf battles between rival drug gangs.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/another-mexican-mayor-slain-by.html