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Posts Tagged Mexico
Bullets shot in Mexico reach el Paso, TX
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Aug/2010 03:00
He said the incident is just across the Rio Grande from the old La Hacienda Restaurant at 1720 W. Paisano.
“The Police Department is blocking off Paisano and we’re prepared and we’re going to continue being prepared, and we are going to prevent this from spilling over,” Cordero said.
Residents in the area said they heard the shots being fired from nearby, though it was unclear whether any bullets had crossed the border into El Paso.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/bullets-from-ciudad-juarez-reaching-el.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.
Decapitated bodies of four men hung from a bridge in CUERNAVACA, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Aug/2010 20:22
CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) — The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general’s office of Mexico state said in a statement.
The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-08-22-drug-war-mexico_N.htm?csp=34
According to the Morelos State Attorney General’s office, the victims’ genitals, index fingers and heads had been cut off and left alongside the highway with a handmade sign which read: “This is what will happen to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villareal”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/4-headless-mutilated-bodies-hung-from.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
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
Threats to Mexican clergy: by Los Zetas, government authorities, mafias trafficking people
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Aug/2010 13:43
“One day we found an iguana in the office. It had a paper tied to its tail that said: “Do not mess with us. That was the first time they threatened us,” complained the priest Blas Alvarado, pastor of Tenosique, Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico,
Father Alvarado runs a migrant shelter that cares for undocumented Central American migrants journeying to the United States in search of economic opportunity. Church run shelters are vital to the safety of these migrants who are easy prey for criminals that kidnap them for ransom. Those unable to pay are usually murdered.
Father Alvarado is under constant threat now for his advocacy and for his demands that the police and the military stop the kidnappings.
Mexican Federal Judge attacked, one bodyguard killed
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Aug/2010 23:04
Armed assailants wounded a Mexican federal judge in the western state of Nayarit and killed one of his bodyguards, judiciary officials said on Friday.
Judge Carlos Alberto Elorza Amores “was attacked (Thursday afternoon) by gunmen at a housing estate†in the town of Xalisco, Jose Vilches, spokesman for the Federal Judicial Council, or CJF, said.
“The bodyguards who were accompanying him repelled the aggression, but one was gunned down,†Vilches said. The other two bodyguards assigned to Elorza were “slightly wounded†in the attack.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/federal-judge-attacked-by-gunmen.html
Municipal Police arrested in the Abduction of the Mayor of Santiago
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Aug/2010 20:28
“The state attorney general Alejandro Garza y Garza reported that the seven narco-policemen were arrested after confessing in the participation of the abduction of the mayor of Santiago. The policemen were actively working for a cartel and authorities still expect more arrests.
Garza y Garza said that through an investigation initiated by the Governor and the state police seven people were arrested for the murder of mayor Edelmiro Cavazos.
Garza and Garza said the seven people arrested, including a woman, were actively working as municipal police officers for the city of Santiago and that some were getting paid by a cartel. The bodyguard of the late mayor, who was present during the abduction, was also arrested.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/municipal-polive-linked-to-abduction-of.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
Hunting Party of 8 killed in Oaxaca State
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:26
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
The victims were out hunting when they were intercepted by an armed commando in a dirt road located in the Ejido Tierra Alta, two of the bodies showed the coup de grace (shot at point blank to the head).
The Secretary of Public Security of Oaxaca, Javier Rueda, confirmed that the group of people went out hunting, when they were caught by an armed commando.
Two of the victims were shot execution-style and the rest were sprayed with gunfire to avoid leaving witnesses.
WARNING: Disturbing photos:
Narco-Censorship: Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:20
Placards with pictures of slain journalists are seen this month at a Mexico City rally by journalists protesting the violence they face. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP/Getty Images / August 7, 2010)
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship.
It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.”
The Body of Cavazos, Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Found
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:12
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
“This one hit hard, don’t ask me why, it just did. Today I am writing this the day they found the body of the Panista Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, who had been abducted two days ago by an armed commando.
U.S. educated Cavazos Leal, 38, and father of three children was abducted Sunday night from his residence in the Division of Cieneguillas. Alejandro Garza Garza, the Nuevo León state attorney, said Monday that the mayor was abducted by a commando wearing fake uniforms of the federal police of the attorney general (PGR).
Medina said this week that Cavazos, who took office last year, was probably targeted for his efforts to clean up Santiago’s corrupt police force, part of a nationwide effort to curb endemic police graft.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/body-of-cavazos-found.html