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Posts Tagged cartels
Mexican Cartels Purchasing Grenades for $6.50
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 20:09
“How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas, a pack of smokes, or maybe a value meal from one of my favorite fast food joints.
In Mexico, on the other hand, with roughly $80 pesos, I can buy two packs of smokes and a big bag of chips, a kilo of sirloin, about 9 liters of gas, or a tasty 8 taco breakfast washed down with an ice cold bottled Coca-Çola.
Or, for those same $80 Mexican pesos, according to a report made public in ElNorte, with the right connections, I could buy myself a grenade from Guatemala.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/mexican-cartels-purchasing-grenades-for.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
Threat grows as Mexican cartels move to beef up U.S. presence
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:16
SAN DIEGO — When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S. authorities tapped into their cellphones – then listened, watched and waited.
According to the wiretaps and confidential informants, the suspects plotted kidnappings and killings and hired American teenage girls, with nicknames like Dopey, to smuggle quarter-pound loads of methamphetamine across the border for $100 a trip. To send a message to a rival, they dumped a disemboweled dog in his mother’s front yard.
But U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how aggressively it moved to set up operations in the United States, working out of a San Diego apartment it called “The Office.”
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
Jalisco, Mexico: Mexican Troops Seize Cartel Arsenal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 15/Oct/2010 15:30
“Army troops confiscated drugs and an arsenal including rocket-launchers from a house in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico’s defense department said.Soldiers discovered the weapons after receiving a tip about the presence of armed men at the home in the Agua Blanca neighborhood of the city of Zapopan.
The cache included 51 rifles and 49 handguns, two rocket-launchers, 20 grenades and nearly 38,000 rounds of ammunition, the defense department said.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/mexican-troops-seize-cartel-arsenal.html
Mexico: Drug Cartels using internet social media, and Government proposals to fight it
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Oct/2010 18:41
“What we do know is that drug cartels don’t merely depend on anonymous websites … they are quite capable of publishing that information online – and anonymously – themselves. In fact, according to the the blog “Last of the Dodos,†the Gulf Cartel even temporarily had its own official YouTube channel. (The account was quickly suspended.)
Mexican officials also say that drug cartels are using Twitter and Facebook to avoid military raids and police checkpoints. In the border town of Reynosa, where fighting between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel has been the most intense, a Facebook message that warned of an upcoming shootout caused the entire city, including schools and shops, to shut down. (The predicted shootout never did take place.)
Mexican politicians have responded by proposing a law that would give them power to block websites that facilitate the breaking of the law. It would also make illegal the publishing of information that helps anyone break the law or avoid the police.
In practice, the law could provide the government a handy excuse to censor legitimate information that helps hold government officials accountable.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/citizen-journalism-and-drug-trafficking.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
Anti-drug raid in East Texas; suspect links with Mexican cartel
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Sep/2010 20:20
Dallas, Texas (Notimex) – Dozens of FBI agents burst into a ranch in East Texas to question residents of the place about the exchange of arms for drugs with a Mexican cartel.
23 year old U.S citizen, cartel hit man for Los Zetas, arrested in Reynosa, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 27/Sep/2010 21:32
23 year old U.S citizen and alleged Los Zetas gang member, Joseph Allen Garcia
“A 23 year old U.S citizen and alleged Los Zetas gang member, Joseph Allen Garcia, was arrested in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico, this Thursday night and expelled within hours to the U.S. to face multiple charges in Texas of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, possession of marijuana and a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The suspect was arrested by Tamaulipas state investigative police with the help of intelligence shared by Texas authorities. After being expelled by Mexican authorities Garcia was taken into custody Friday morning by U.S. Marshals in Hidalgo County, across the Rio Grande from Reynosa.
According to federal authorities the suspect is a cartel hit man for Los Zetas in Mexico and also works for the Mexican Mafia prison based gang in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/american-zeta-in-us-custody.html
Is US Intel Helping in the Capture of Drug Cartel Bosses?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 3/Sep/2010 18:09
Are US agencies providing intel or direct leadership in helping Mexican Military track down all these Cartel bosses in Mexico?
Video here:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/is-us-intel-helping-in-capture-of-capos.html
Mexican President Calderon’s proposed plan to battle cash smuggling and money laundering.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 19:47
“MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon proposed sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on the cash smuggling and money laundering that allow Mexican cartels to use billions in U.S. drug profits to enrich their criminal organizations.
Legislation introduced by the Calderon administration would make it illegal to buy real estate in cash.
The new laws would also limit the purchase of vehicles, boats, airplanes and luxury goods to 100,000 pesos in cash, or about $7,700. Violators could be sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexico-targets-money-laundering-with.html
Corrupt prisons in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Aug/2010 13:51
“At the heart of the problem is the river of bribes coursing through Mexican jails, from the few pesos inmates pay each day to get food and toilet paper to the fortunes that jailed drug lords pay to live in luxury or escape when they please.
“The authorities no longer control the prisons — the drug lords do,” said Pedro Arellano, a veteran prisoner rights activist. “The prisons have become officials’ petty cash box.”
In many of Mexico’s overcrowded prisons, drug suspects use money and influence to run their businesses from the inside, and to recruit new cartel members among fellow inmates.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/corrupt-insecure-prisons-undermine.html
“El Chachis”: high-level member of the Los Zetas drug cartel captured
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Jul/2010 19:53
Esteban Luna
“A high-level member of the Los Zetas drug cartel was captured by army troops, the Mexican Defense Secretariat said.
Esteban Luna was the cartel’s boss in Monterrey, the capital of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, and was behind several attacks on army troops and a U.S. consulate, the secretariat said.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/zeta-el-chachis-falls.html