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Posts Tagged drug war
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
Victims of illegal alien crime: Deputy Frank Fabiano, Jr. shot to death
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Oct/2010 23:19
“A decorated Kenosha County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot to death during a routine traffic stop by an illegal alien with four prior arrests in four different states.
Local law enforcement is “doing the job the federal government just won’t do†by being the first line of defense against illegal alien crime in America. Unfortunately, these brave officers are often the casualties of the violent, unidentified foreign nationals residing in American communities across the United States.”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4043/pub_detail.asp
Five men arrested in Tijuana for operating a kidnapping cell
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Oct/2010 22:14
“Five men were arrested in the state of Baja California for operating a kidnapping cell.
The men allegedly belong to the Tijuana Cartel faction currently run by Fernando Sánchez Arellano, alias El Ingeniero (the engineer) and were captured after an investigation into the kidnapping of 4 students led to their arrest.”
22 Men kidnapped in Mexican resort city of Acapulco
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Oct/2010 22:11
“ACAPULCO, Mexico—Gunmen kidnapped 22 men who were traveling together in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday.
A shootout between drug gangs, meanwhile, left 14 people dead in remote town in the northern state of Durango, Mexican newspapers reported.
The group of men in Acapulco was visiting from the western city of Morelia and looking for a place to stay when they were abducted Thursday, said Fernando Monreal, director of state investigative police in Guerrero state, where the resort city is located.”
Grenade attacks in Monterrey
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Oct/2010 22:09
“The weekend has seen four grenade attacks in Nuevo Leon. The attacks began on Friday night in the city of Monterrey.
The first was against the penal institution of Topo Chico, the second exploded 100 meters from the U.S. Consulate office and another near the Judicial building of the city. Although the attacks resulted in vehicle and property damage only one person was reported injured. Mexican Army units secured the area for investigation.
On September 30th governor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz had claimed that violence was down in the state of Nuevo Leon.”
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.
Narco-submarine captured in Pacific
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Sep/2010 20:18
Bogota, Colombia (Notimex) – Colombian authorities discovered a narco-submarine with the capability of transporting eight tons of cocaine out of the country. According to Naval officials, the submersible was discovered in an operation carried out along the Pacific coast near Satinga in western Colombia.
Mexico: State Police Arsenal Raided in Chihuahua City
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Sep/2010 20:10
“CHIHUAHUA, Chihuahua – Around 02:00 on the morning of Monday, September 27, at least 6 men dressed in CIPOL state police uniforms with tactical gear & riding in a white Dodge Ram entered the State Security Complex (CIPOL compound) & raided the arsenal.
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
Mexican Mayors fear for their lives – move to US
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 27/Sep/2010 21:27
“15 mayors have been killed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006 including the murder of the mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Edelmiro Cavazos.
Several Mexican mayors have been forced to move to the United States for reasons of personal and family safety in the face of threats from drug traffickers and the killings of 10 mayors this year in Mexico.
Mayors from the northern border states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon have moved to the United States, with some taking up residence in that country permanently and others splitting their time between U.S. and Mexican residences, municipal officials said.
The mayors of at least six border cities in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas have been forced to move to neighboring Texas.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/threats-from-narcos-force-mexican.html
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
Sangin, Afghanistan: Taliban stronghold, “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Sep/2010 01:11
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
“I’d tell anyone now don’t come here because I’d never want to come here again,” one soldier told me this summer at a Sangin patrol base hemmed in by all sides by insurgents.
“This place is different to anywhere else; really it’s a Taliban stronghold,” he added.
The town is likely to remain a Taliban redoubt because it always has been and there is little desire, or resources, to tackle Sangin’s problems. The centre for the narcotics trade and a hub for warring tribes the complexities of Sangin’s problems are deep.
But the town is also the testing ground for the Taliban where an average of 400 external fighters come each year to “earn their stripes” and the fighting is of an intensity not found anywhere else in Helmand. On average there are 15 small arms fire contacts a day and 15 IEDs found a week.
No wonder then that troops nicknamed Sangin the “bastard child of Helmand” or “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”.
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
Biggest Newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 14:20
AP – A man mourns in front of the coffin containing the body of Diario de Juarez newspaper photographer Carlos …
Terrorism wins: Journalism muzzled by fear of violence.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The biggest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage after the killing of its second journalist in less than two years, just as international press representatives will urge the government to make security for journalists a national priority.
In a front-page editorial Sunday, El Diario de Juarez asked drug cartels warring in this city across from El Paso, Texas, to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of its staff.
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, at least eight of them targeted because of their reports on crime and corruption, says the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based media watchdog group that plans to present its report to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday. At least seven other journalists have gone missing and more have fled the country, the report says.
Many media outlets, especially in border areas, have stopped covering the drug war. Until Sunday, El Diario was not one of them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_mexico_journalist_killed;_ylt=ArQATucxvqH6bWOxrLzbGWN0fNdF
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