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Posts Tagged drug war
Los Zetas vs CDG battleground spreads to Piedras Negras.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Aug/2010 18:43
“The bloody battles between Los Zetas and the Cartel del Golfo (CDG) for control of the Tamaulipas plazas in la Frontera Chica (Reynosa, Miguel Aleman, Camargo and Guerrero) and Nuevo Laredo are now spreading west to the Piedras Negras, Coahuila area.
All these cities and towns face the Rio Grande and South Texas and together with the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso plaza are major conduits for the trafficking of drugs and humans north into the Mid-Western and East Coast areas of the U.S..”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/los-zetas-vs-cdg-battleground-spreads.html
Ignacio “Nacho†Coronel Villarreal, shot and killed
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 2/Aug/2010 19:48
“When the late drug kingpin Ignacio “Nacho†Coronel Villarreal, was shot and killed by soldiers in his luxury safehouse, he was in possession of 10 suitcases containing $ 7 million (U.S.) a vast collection of jewelry, at least half a dozen cellphones, and most important of all, a laptop computer whose data storage contains information vital to the operation of his empire.”
Ciudad Valles: Gunmen in convoy of 8 vehicles kill six policemen
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Aug/2010 19:44
“Gunmen in a convoy of eight vehicles killed six policemen, a city worker and a civilian and terrorized the population in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi, during a string of consecutive attacks as the convoy crossed the length of the city.
Local media reported that the convoy entered the city between 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM on Friday, July 30, and drove boulevard Mexico-Laredo Boulevard and arrived first at a Coca Cola bottling where they shot down and killed two state police officers without stopping.
Several blocks later the gunmen stormed a municipal police installation and opened fire, killing three policemen and a civilian worker. Another policeman died later that night in a local hospital of his wounds.
On Sunday, August 1, the Mexican Army officially took control of police duties in the city.”
15 more execution-style murder victims were found in Northern Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 1/Aug/2010 14:10
“Tamaulipas was the scene of yet another harvest of death as the bodies of 15 more execution-style murder victims were found abandoned by their killers on the highway between Matamoros and San Fernando Thursday afternoon, July 29.
The 13 men and 2 women were found with their hands bound with plastic cable ties, faces bandaged and with visible marks of torture and beatings. All had been executed with a shot to the head.”
85% of Drug Traffickers arrested in Mexico are Set Free
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 29/Jul/2010 17:47
“Only 1.5 of every 10 individuals charged with drug trafficking and murder in Mexico ends with a sentence, while the remaining of the 85% go free for lack of evidence even if the PAN government brags about their arrests in the media.
It is a ritual that takes place almost every day: people accused of drug trafficking and murder are paraded before the media to show that Mexico is winning its war against drugs.
But once the camera lights go out, three-quarters of them are released.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/85-of-drug-traffickers-are-set-free.html
At least 17 Executions Around Mexico this Week
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:26
“Organized-crime involvement is suspected in the killings of 17 people in two Mexican states, authorities said Monday.
Officials in the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero said six people were found dead inside an SUV.
Five of the victims were bound with adhesive tape, while the sixth was wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag and accompanied by a message from the killers, the state Public Safety Office said in a statement.
Separately, two people were gunned down Sunday night inside a pool hall in the town of Ajuchitlan del Progreso.
Though authorities have yet to identify any victims or a motive in either case, the killings bore the hallmarks of organized crime, the statement said.
Nine people were slain in the western state of Sinaloa, a spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office told Efe Monday.
Four bodies were discovered inside a burned-out SUV in Culiacan, the state capital, the spokesman said, adding that 22 shell casings from an AK-47 assault rifle were collected at the scene.
In the town of Navolato, four people who had been kidnapped elsewhere were found shot to death near a technical training school. Another person turned up dead in the community of El Quemadito.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/executions-around-mexico-this-week.html
8 Severed Human Heads Dumped in Durango, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:22
“Eight severed human heads were found Tuesday in the Mexican city of Durango, capital of the likenamed northern state, authorities said.
Police were directed to some of the heads by a series of anonymous telephone calls that began shortly before 7:00 a.m., the Durango state Attorney General’s Office said.
The eight heads were scattered among various roads on the edge of the city, according to a statement from the AG office, which said authorities had yet to find the corresponding bodies or identity the victims.
While some of the heads were found as a result of the phone calls, others were discovered by maintenance workers in city parks.
All of the victims were unidentified men between the ages of 25 and 30, the AG office said. The actual bodies have not been found.
The gruesome discoveries in the state capital come two days after the arrest of the warden at the Cereso 2 prison in Gomez Palacio, Durango, on accusations she allowed inmates to leave the facility to carry out killings.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/severed-human-heads-dumped-in-durango.html
Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Jul/2010 19:38
A night shot of Torreon, state of Coahuila, Mexico, taken from the "Cerro de las Noas" hill.
“MEXICO CITY — Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards’ weapons and vehicles, officials said Sunday, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison breakouts are common as guards look the other way.
The prisoners carried out three massacres this year in the city of Torreón in which 35 people were killed, Ricardo Nájera, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said at a news conference. Among them, the authorities said, was last week’s attack on birthday revelers at a party hall. The gang shot randomly into the crowd, they said, killing 17 people.
Ballistics studies confirmed that four guns used in the shooting were the same as those assigned to jail guards, Mr. Nájera said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?_r=1
Mexico Mass Grave Linked to Drug Gangs
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Jul/2010 18:51
“At least 51 bodies have been discovered in nine unmarked graves in northern Mexico, officials say, in one of the more grisly recent turns in the country’s rampaging violence linked to drug gangs.
Many of the victims, found earlier in the week in a series of graves located in a suburb of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon state, had their hands bound and showed signs of torture, investigators said.
Nuevo Leon, which borders Texas, has seen a spike in drug violence this year due to an intensifying rivalry between former partners: the Gulf cartel and a group know as the Zetas.
It is the second major finding this year of bodies deposited in mass graves, allegedly by members of Mexico’s warring drug cartels, after the remains of 55 people were exhumed in June in the southern state of Guerrero.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/mexico-mass-grave-linked-to-drug-gangs.html
Four Bodies Found in Nuevo Laredo
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Jul/2010 18:46
“The bodies of four men, handcuffed and tortured, appeared on Sunday morning in front of the plaza in Nuevo Laredo, where the perpetrators of the crime also left a warning for the public, a police source said.
Very early in the day, the office of public safety, received a “report of four bodies that were left on la plaza,” said an official of the state agency.
The bodies were left along with a dead dog and cat in front of the “plaza de toros” bullring in Nuevo Laredo, which has a population of about 400,000 people and it’s the largest commercial frontier between Mexico and the United States.
“I was the one who threw the grenade into the sports complex, I was paid $500 (dollars),” read the message written on a cardboard on one of the victims, while the other three men killed where identified as the father, brother and brother-in-law of the former.
“The Nuevo Laredo people know who helps them, this is what is going to happen to all and their family,” said the written message about the victims who had not yet been identified.
On Wednesday Nuevo Laredo lived a day of fear from shootouts between gunmen and roadblocks that even left people trapped in cinemas and shops that were suddenly closed. Mexican soldiers fought late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets in a city across the border from Texas.The Nuevo Laredo city government posted messages on Facebook warning citizens to stay indoors as the battles erupted at several intersections Wednesday night. Gangs used stolen cars and buses to block several main avenues in the city across from Laredo, Texas. Several residents called local newspapers to report thefts. “For your security, stay in your homes until the alert has passed,” the city government wrote on Facebook”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/four-bodies-found-in-nuevo-laredo.html
Mexico, On The Brink Of Apocalypse?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Jul/2010 18:40
“In an interview by Carmen Aristegui, the security specialist Edgardo Buscaglia says that “The violence is like a perfect storm in which many factors are interacting to lead Mexico into a civil war scenarioâ€
Faced with the violent events this week in various parts of the country and how they occurred, some commentators caution that we face a new escalation of violence in Mexico: the stage of terrorism.
Where once the United States had been particularly attentive to what was happening in Ciudad Juarez, now it is also deeply concerned about what is happening in Nuevo Laredo.
Nuevo Laredo happens to be the largest inland port for commerce between Mexico and the U.S. where at least 12,000 tractor trailers full of industrial, agricultural and consumer goods pass daily. A permanent state of chaos in Nuevo Laredo would seriously impact trade between both nations.
Today it is assumed that the Mexican government is unable to control the violence that affects it’s innocent citizens. And if this is happening on the border with the U.S. then the national security of the U.S is also affected.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/mexico-on-brink-co-near-apocalypse_1788.html
Zetas Murder 12 in Matamoros
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 13/Jul/2010 23:50
“The tortured and bullet riddled bodies of twelve organized crime execution victims were found abandoned on Monday at 10:30 AM on the outskirts of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in the area known as Las Yescas.
The bodies were located 1 kilometer away from, and within site, of a manned federal customs permanent checkpoint.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/zetas-murder-12-in-matamoros.html
Operation Chihuahua
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 13/Jul/2010 23:40
“Coordinated Operation Chihuahua or formerly known as Joint Operation Chihuahua is a Military and Federal Police operation started in 2008 by the Mexican Army and PolicÃa Federal Preventiva. The objective is to “besiege” Ciudad Juárez to concentrate forces and saturate the area to confront the three cartels already operating in the city.
Ciudad Juárez is known to be one of the most dangerous cities in the Americas. In the year 2007 more than 100 police officers were killed in Juárez in attacks blamed on organized crime.
The violence generated by the war of the drug cartels for control of drug routes translated into some 6,000 killings in 2008.”
46 US Warships Plus 7,000 US Marines On Route To Costa Rica?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 13/Jul/2010 19:23
USS Makin Island
“On the 2nd July 2010 the Costa Rica Congress authorized the entry of 46 U.S. warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters and warplanes, plus 7,000 U.S. Marines “who may circulate the country in uniform without any restrictions” , plus submarine killer ships to the Costa Rican coast for “anti-narcotics operations and humanitarian missions’ between 1st July 2010 until 31st December 2010.”
http://www.welovecostarica.com/public/46_US_Warships_Plus_7000_US_Marines_On_Route_To_Costa_Rica.cfm
New Rules for Campaigning in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Jul/2010 20:04
During debates no mudslinging or antagonizing your opponent, however grenades and assault rifles are allowed.
The one with the most bullet holes on their vehicle or themselves will determine the popularity polls.
It will be prohibited to denigrate the character of an opponent or defame their good name, but ambushes with deadly weapons are permissible.
In this democratic system, the winner is not necessarily the one who is the "head" of political influences.