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Posts Tagged Mexico
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
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
Mexican Army soldiers and a band of up to 60 gunmen clash in the state of Chihuahua
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 24/Jul/2010 18:32
“Armed clashes between a detachment of Mexican Army soldiers and a band of up to 60 gunmen resulted in the seizure of approximately 52 pounds of Tovex and 2 pounds of Detagel high explosives and a spool of detonation cord in the rugged highlands of the Sierra Madre in the state of Chihuahua.
Juarez has suffered 6000 dead and the rest of Chihuahua has counted 3000 deaths since the start of the drug war in late 2007.”
Juarez Graffiti Message to U.S. law enforcement Warns of Another Car Bomb
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 22/Jul/2010 23:33
“A graffiti message found Sunday night in Juárez warned U.S. law enforcement that another car bombing will occur if they do not arrest corrupt federal police agents.
The unsigned message told the FBI and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate authorities that support the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Otherwise, there will be another car bomb placed in Juárez to kill federal police, the threat stated.
“If in 15 days, there is no response with detention of corrupt federales, we will put a car with 100 kilos of C4,” the message read.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/graffiti-message-in-juarez-warns-of.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.”
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.
Mexican Marines Free 8 Captives in Tamaulipas
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Jul/2010 19:59
“Mexican Marines free 8 kidnapped captives, arrest 18 drug traffickers and seize more than seven and a half tons of marijuana, high-powered weapons and vehicles in Tamaulipas”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/mexican-marines-free-8-captives-in.html
“Shootout Drills” for Mexican Schools
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jul/2010 19:49
“MEXICO CITY – Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as urban gunfights between drug gangs multiply in the violence-torn country.
At least nine shootouts have erupted in school zones since mid-October, three of them in the past month. On June 15, soldiers and gunmen battled for an hour just 60 feet from a preschool in the central town of Taxco.
Several Mexican states are now requiring “shootout drills” and are incorporating them into summer teacher-training courses, which begin next week. School ends Friday in most of Mexico.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/shootout-drills-for-mexican-schools.html
Decapitated Victim Left on Mexican Mayoral Candidate’s Doorstep
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2010 21:27
“In another act of terrorism directed at the electoral process in Mexico a decapitated body was placed yards away from a home belonging to Héctor “Teto†MurguÃa Lardizábal, the PRI candidate for Mayor of Ciudad Juarez.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/06/ciudad-juarez-mayoral-candidate-greeted.html
Gun battle 12 miles south Sasabe, Arizona – unofficial death toll: 29
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Jul/2010 21:07
“The unofficial death toll for Thursday morning’s battle between rival organized criminal groups has reached 29 according to reports coming out of the Nogales, Sonora area.
The shootout occurred approximately 12 miles south of the little used border crossing point in the town of Sasabe, Arizona, located in Pima County.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/29-gunmen-dead-in-shootout-12-miles.html
Mexico: Two Cops, Five Others Murdered
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Jul/2010 21:02
“At least seven people, including two police officers, were murdered over the weekend in different parts of Mexico, state officials said.
The bodies of four men were found hanging off bridges early Sunday in Chihuahua city, the capital of the like-named state.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/two-cops-five-others-murdered.html
Border violence spills onto Mexican ranches and farms
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Jul/2010 20:46
“The drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is now spilling into the region’s agriculture, threatening the safety of ranchers and farmers, slowing down what was expected to be the best harvest in years, and raising the risk that some crops will rot in the fields.
Ranchers like Gutierrez have trouble getting their animals to market. Farmers who once toiled long hours in the fields now fear being attacked in the dark. Some are even being forced to pay protection money to keep from being kidnapped or having their harvest stolen.
A woman who exports aloe vera said her father pays protection money just to be allowed to conduct business.
“Everyone does,” the woman said in an interview at a sprawling produce warehouse complex in McAllen, Texas.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/07/4632112-border-violence-spills-onto-mexican-ranches-farms