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Posts Tagged drug war
Violence Rampant in Ciuadad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 22:29
Three bodies found among the trash along a road in "Curvas del Perico" executed with multiple gunshots to the head.
“Around-the-clock executions, routine kidnappings, burnings of rural homes, hangings of murder victims from overpasses, scatterings of body parts on public streets, a car bomb, and threats of more violence have all put Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua on extreme edge.The violence boils as the administration of Chihuahua Governor Jose Reyes Baeza, state legislature and municipal governments enter their last months in office and prepare to hand over political leadership to others from the same Institutional Revolutionary Party.”
3,200 Mexican federal police fired since May
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 19:32
A Mexican federal police officer frisks a man during an anti-narcotics operation in Michoacan.
“Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.
Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes.
In addition, Rosas said at a news conference, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams.”
(Cartels announce 3,200 job openings.)
14 Men Executed in Acapulco
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:27
Acapulco- Attacks on suspected members of the Cartel del Pacifico Sur headed by Héctor Beltrán Leyva left 14 men dead in execution style slayings in four different locations around the tourist destination of Acapulco, Guerrero during the morning hours of Friday, August 27.
The murders may have been a reprisal for the executions and public display of 4 mutilated bodies of men belonging to Edgar “la Barbie†Valdez Villarreal’s organization in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/14-executed-in-acapulco.html
According to the state of Guerrero’s Public Security Secretariat, the victims were beaten and tortured before being executed by gunfire from the usual weapons used by organized criminal gangs: .233 (AR-15), 7.62 x 39mm (AK-47) and 9mm calibers.
Three of the victims were identified as municipal policemen and one victim was a state government employee. As of late Friday evening the identities of the other victims had not been released.
Official investigating Mexican Massacre Murdered
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Aug/2010 23:26
The body of an official investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants killed in a ranch in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was found today dumped beside a nearby road alongside another unidentified victim, according to local media.
El Universal said the body of Roberto Jaime Suarez was found on a highway. He disappeared two days ago in the town of San Fernando, along with a transit police officer. A second body was found and is thought to be the officer.
The wife of Roberto Suarez told the BBC he had been missing since Wednesday, the day after the migrants were found dead at a ranch in Tamaulipas state. Suarez was involved in the initial investigation of the massacre, which authorities have blamed on the Zetas drug cartel. The federal Attorney General’s Office has since taken the lead in the case.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexican-massacre-investigator-found.html
Maybe we should be focusing our attentioin closer to home?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Aug/2010 02:57
Debusmann was shot twice in the course of his work -- once covering a night battle in the center of Beirut and once in an assassination attempt prompted by his reporting.
The United States is spending around $6.5 billion a month on the war in faraway Afghanistan, where a large part of its effort is meant to help the government assert its authority, fight corruption and set up functioning institutions.
Closer to home, the U.S. has allotted $44 million a month to help the governments of its closest neighbours – Mexico and Central America – assert their authority, fight corruption and set up functioning institutions.
The two cases raise questions about American priorities. If money were the only gauge, one might draw the conclusion that it is 147 times more important for Washington to bring security and good governance to Afghanistan than to America’s violence-plagued next-door neighbours — Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/07/30/afghanistan-and-americas-troubled-backyard/
Partial list of some of the worst attacks in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Aug/2010 02:54
MONTERREY Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines found 72 bodies at a remote ranch near the U.S. border, the navy said Wednesday, the biggest single haul of bodies in an increasingly violent drug war.
Below are some of the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. Some 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since then.
* Sept 15, 2008 – Suspected members of the Zetas drug gang tossed grenades into a crowd celebrating Mexico’s independence day in the western city of Morelia, killing eight people and wounding more than 100.
* Jan 31, 2010 – Suspected cartel hitmen killed 13 high school students and two adults at a party in Ciudad Juarez.
* March 13 – Hitmen killed three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March, provoking “outrage” from U.S. President Barack Obama.
Bodies of 58 men and 14 women found on ranch 90 miles from the Texas border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Aug/2010 02:51
A ranch is seen in San Fernando in Tamaulipas state, August 24, 2010, where according to a Mexican navy statement 72 bodies have been found, in this handout photo released by the Mexican Navy August 25, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Mexican Navy/Handout CAMPAIGNS
Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines found 72 corpses at a remote ranch near the U.S. border, the Mexican navy said on Wednesday, the biggest single discovery of its kind in Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug war.
The marines came across the bodies of 58 men and 14 women, thought to be migrant workers, on Tuesday at the ranch in Tamaulipas state, 90 miles from the Texas border, after a series of firefights with drug gang members.
A list of the the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Aug/2010 13:48
“Below are some of the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. Some 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since then.
* Aug 18, 2010 – The body of the mayor of Santiago, a colonial tourist town near Monterrey, was dumped on a rural road, two days after he was taken from his home. Calderon condemned the killing of Edelmiro Cavazos, the latest attack on public officials in an escalating drug war.
* July 18, 2010 – Gunmen burst into a birthday party in the northern city of Torreon, using automatic weapons to kill 17 party-goers and wound 18 others. Mexican authorities later said those responsible were incarcerated cartel hitmen who were let out of jail by corrupt officials. The killers allegedly borrowed weapons and vehicles from prison guards and later returned to their cells.
* July 15, 2010 – A 22-pound (10-kilo) car bomb killed four people in Ciudad Juarez in a blast that was detonated by cell phone, the first such attack since Calderon took office.
* June 28, 2010 – Suspected cartel hitmen shot and killed a popular gubernatorial candidate in the northern state of Tamaulipas in the worst cartel attack on a politician to date. Rodolfo Torre, 46, and four aides from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were ambushed on their way to a campaign event for the July 4 state election.
* June 11, 2010 – Two dozen heavily armed gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation clinic in the northern city of Chihuahua and killed 19 addicts, ranging in age from 18 to 25.
* March 28, 2010 – Gunmen in northwestern Durango state killed 10 people, as young as 8 years old, after the pick-up truck they were traveling in sped through a roadblock on an isolated highway in the drug-producing “Golden Triangle” region.
* March 13, 2010 – Hitmen killed three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March, provoking “outrage” from U.S. President Barack Obama.
* January 31, 2010 – Suspected cartel hitmen killed 13 high school students and two adults at a party in Ciudad Juarez.
* September 15, 2008 – Suspected members of the Zetas drug gang tossed grenades into a crowd celebrating Mexico’s independence day in the western city of Morelia, killing eight people and wounding more than 100.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/factbox-worst-attacks-in-mexicos-drug.html
4 members of the Michoacan Family cartel have been captured in the state of Nuevo Leon -for the first time
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Aug/2010 13:45
“In an exclusive military operation led by the Mexican Army, military elements stormed a rural residential complex in the municipality of Santiago, Nuevo Leon where they arrested four alleged members of the Michoacan Family (LFM) and seized weapons, communication equipment and vehicles.
This event has been marked as the first time members of the Michoacan Family cartel have been captured in the state of Nuevo Leon.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexican-army-detains-4-members-of-la.html
2,076 Policemen killed in Mexican drug war.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 19/Aug/2010 02:29
According to a report released today by Mexico’s cabinet level Federal Police Ministry, the SSP, organized crime and drug cartel attacks and executions have killed 2,076 policemen since President Calderon launched his offensive in December 2006.
Municipal policemen accounted for 915 deaths, followed by state policemen with 698 deaths and the federal police with 463 deaths. The total of 2,076 police deaths accounted for 7.3% of the figure of 28,228 total deaths attributed to organized crime from December 1, 2006 to July 29, 2010.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/lives-of-policemen-in-mexico.html
“Project Deliverance” Mexico and U.S. authorities join forces
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Aug/2010 17:45
The 22-month multi-agency investigation called “Project Deliverance” resulted in the arrest of more than 2,200 individuals and the seizure of $154 million in U.S. currency, 1,262 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.5 tons of cocaine, 1,410 pounds of heroin, 69 tons of marijuana, 501 weapons, and 527 vehicles.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexico-and-us-joining-forces-to-fight.html
Potential Cartel Tactics and Practices
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 6/Aug/2010 02:05
(WARNING: graphic, disturbing images)
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/potential-cartel-tactics-and-practices.html
Mexico Drug Cartels use Gory Videos to Spread Fear
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 6/Aug/2010 02:00
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexico-drug-cartels-use-gory-videos-to.html
“Powerful drug cartels are increasingly using gruesome videos of executions and interrogations to intimidate their rivals, police and an already terrified public in Mexico’s vicious drug war.
In one video, a man with a black eye is tethered to a chair in his underwear and appears to be strangled to death with a tourniquet by his captors. There is a “Z” scrawled across his chest, for Zetas, a spinoff of the Gulf Cartel.
In another video, a man is slowly beheaded with a knife.”
Seems somehow familiar…where have we seen this tactic before…?
Mexico’s Juarez Cartel Gets Desperate
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 5/Aug/2010 16:29
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By Scott Stewart
On Aug. 3, the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico, reopened after being closed for four days. On July 29, the consulate had announced in a warden message that it would be closed July 30 and would remain closed until a review of the consulate’s security posture could be completed.
The closure appears to be linked to a message found on July 15, signed by La Linea, the enforcement arm of the Juarez cartel. This message was discovered at the scene shortly after a small improvised explosive device (IED) in a car was used in a well-coordinated ambush against federal police agents in Juarez, killing two agents. In the message, La Linea claimed credit for the attack and demanded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and FBI investigate and remove the head of Chihuahua State Police Intelligence (CIPOL), who the message said is working with the Sinaloa Federation and its leader, Joaquin “El Chapo†Guzman Loera. The message threatened that if the intelligence official was not removed by July 30, La Linea would deploy a car bomb with 100 kilograms of high explosives in Juarez.
The deadline has now passed without incident and the consulate has reopened. Examining this chain of events provides some valuable insights into the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities as well as the current state of events in Juarez, a city that in recent years has experienced levels of violence normally associated with an active war zone. Read the rest of this entry »