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Posts Tagged Mexico
Mexico / Texas Border lashed by gunfire and bombing
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:43
“Narco violence†was unleashed again in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas (bordering the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico). It surged almost simultaneously in the three main cities of this state, where there were attacks on government facilities, shootouts and innocent civilians wounded. In Matamoros (right across from Brownsville, Texas), a grenade was thrown at the military base of this border; four civilians and two soldiers were wounded. Neighboring businesses and a school were forced to shut their doors.
In Nuevo Laredo, shootouts and “narcoblockades†caused traffic chaos. A grenade was also thrown at a police facility, and yesterday afternoon stolen trucks and cars were used to block streets while rival gangs shot at each other. One of the blocked streets was where the U.S. Consulate is located.
And just outside Reynosa (right across from McAllen, Texas), a military convoy and a group of men in light trucks engaged in yet another shootout.”
Texas National Guardsman slain in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:20
“The Texas National Guard today has confirmed that a man murdered in Ciudad Juarez this Wednesday, Jose Gil Hernandez, 22, of El Paso Texas, was an off-duty private first class assigned to the Headquarters Battery 3rd Battalion, 133 Field Artillery.
Gil Hernandez and another man, Rafael Ramirez Reza, 43, were gunned down from a moving vehicle by an unknown group of armed men as they spoke outside of a home in the colonia Revolucion Mexicana in south Juarez. Another man, Manuel Galindo, 19, survived the attack and was hospitalized.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/texas-national-guardsman-slain-in.html
Acapulco: Six more people were found murdered and dumped on the side of the road
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:16
“Six more people were found murdered and dumped on the side of the road, this time in near the intersection of San Isidro Gallinero and El Salto streets. The details are scarce, all were found this Friday, with visible signs of torture.
Investigators recovered over 40 shell casings of firearms that ranged in caliber. Again, the corpses were found with a familiar calling card: ‘This happened to us for working with La Barbie. We want your heads, KOREANO and METRO. Atte – Hector Beltran Leyva and friends.’ “
WARNING: Disturbing photo
Acapulco: Former candidate for the municipal presidency and three other men found dead on the side of the road.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:05
“On October 22nd, former PRI candidate for the municipal presidency Antonio Valdez Andrade was found dead along with three other men on the side of the road in the resort city of Acapulco. They police found the victims in a garbage heap in the community of EL Bejuco.
Along with the corpses, investigators found a message that read: This happened to us for supporting La Barbie. Atte – Hector Beltran Leyva and friends.
All the corpses had visible signs of torture, including wounds consistent with the use of a bayonet. Valdez Andrade specifically, had an enormous gash on his abdomen, as well as visious stab wound to the face and neck area.
Valdez Andadre left his offices in Aca Tianguis, which is near the boulevard of ViÂcenÂte GueÂrreÂro in CoÂloÂnia PosÂtal, presumably with the men he was found with. They were abducted off the street by armed commandos, who abandoned the initial vehicle they used to commit the crime and transferred the victims to another awaiting truck. The bodies were found hours later on the side of the road.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
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Mexican Cartels Purchasing Grenades for $6.50
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 20:09
“How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas, a pack of smokes, or maybe a value meal from one of my favorite fast food joints.
In Mexico, on the other hand, with roughly $80 pesos, I can buy two packs of smokes and a big bag of chips, a kilo of sirloin, about 9 liters of gas, or a tasty 8 taco breakfast washed down with an ice cold bottled Coca-Çola.
Or, for those same $80 Mexican pesos, according to a report made public in ElNorte, with the right connections, I could buy myself a grenade from Guatemala.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/mexican-cartels-purchasing-grenades-for.html
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 17:19
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
STRATFOR published an analysis last Wednesday noting that a reliable source in Mexico informed us that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. The source also informed us that those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. The source further reported that the murder of the lead Tamaulipas state investigator on the case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas — whose head was delivered in a suitcase to the Mexican military’s Eight Zone headquarters in Reynosa on Oct. 12 — was a specific message from Los Zetas to Mexican authorities to back off from the investigation.
Since publishing the report, we have been deluged by interview requests regarding the case. Numerous media outlets have interviewed Fred Burton and myself regarding the Falcon Lake case. During the course of talking with reporters and customers, it became obvious to us that a solid understanding of the context within which Hartley’s killing occurred was lacking in media discussions of the case. Viewing the murder as part of the bigger picture of what is occurring in Mexico makes it far easier to understand not only why David Hartley was killed, but why his body will likely never be found — and why his killers probably will not be held accountable for their actions, at least in the context of the judicial system. Read the rest of this entry »
Armed gunmen attack police in Durango – one dead
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:45
“Gomez Palacio, Durango – On Monday afternoon, gunmen attacked a group of Preventive Policemen in Gomez Palacio. The gun battle started in Colonia Cinco de Mayo in Gomez Palacio and ended in neighboring Torreon, Coahuila, leaving one policeman dead and five wounded.
Ten policemen from the Public Security Police of Gomez Palacio were reinforced by 12 policemen from Torreon, Coahuila, 10 Coahuila State Policemen and members of the Mexican Army. Three policemen were transported by ambulance to a hospital, one of them critically wounded.
At the scene there was also a wrecked pickup containing the unidentified dead body of a man killed by gunshots.”
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10302074&IdCat=6087
You Tube Confession of Juarez Female Extortionist (Later Executed) is Revealing
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:41
“Diario today runs a story with a link to a You Tube video in which a woman, flanked by two hooded men with assault rifles, confesses to having been an extortionist for La Linea, on the payroll for $160 per week. A list on notepad paper with the names of businesses she was extorting is shown during the interview.
The video appears to have been taken by a vigilante group that captured her. The woman, who identifies herself as Sanjuana Gabriela EnrÃquez Galván, was later executed and her body was discovered in Col. Melchor Ocampo, face down, with a message on her tee shirt saying “I’m an Extortion(ist) for La Linea.”
A red rose was placed on her back.”
Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:27
“MORELIA, Mexico (AP) – A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August.
Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.
Montejano’s spokesman, Jonathan Arredondo, said initially that the victims were hacked to death with a machete, but the attorney general said they were killed with stones.”
Municipal policeman found dead in Sinaloa
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:21
“San Ignacio, Sinaloa – A municipal policeman was found dead this morning, with his hands and feet tied. The body had signs of gunshots to the head and body. Six fired cases from a .38 Super were found at the scene. The body was found next to his personal vehicle and he was dressed in civilian clothes.”
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloPrimera.asp?IdArt=10302484&IdCat=6087
Using powerful technology, U.S. authorities intercept telephone calls in Mexico resulting in spectacular arrests
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:14
“Washington, D.C. – Investigations by United States federal authorities included the monitoring of telephone calls of Mexican drug cartels, according to The Washington Post.
Using powerful, modern technology, U.S. authorities have been able to intercept telephone calls in Mexico that resulted in spectacular arrests such as that of Jesus Quinonez Marquez, Prosecutor General of Baja California, who was an operative in a narcotics ring. Quinonez was known as “El Rinon,†and he was arrested by the FBI last July in San Diego, California in an investigation that resulted in criminal charges against 42 more people.
Besides Quinonez, 34 other suspects were detained in the United States and 8 more are fugitives.”
The Case of 20 Missing Mexican Tourists Doesn’t Add Up
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:04
“It’s one of the more puzzling episodes in a drug war heaped with unsolved cases: 20 Mexican men travel to Acapulco together and are kidnapped en masse as soon as they arrive.
Two weeks later, there has been no trace of the men. Investigators have yet to announce any good leads, even though two others from the group were not taken.
Against the backdrop of Mexico’s extraordinary drug violence, it’s tempting to write off the Sept. 30 disappearance as another grim skirmish between rival traffickers. Group kidnappings have been a common feature of the feuding, though generally with fewer victims.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/case-of-20-missing-mexican-tourists.html
Marisol Valles, 20-year old Student, Named Police Chief in Violent Mexican Town
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:00
Alcazar/Getty Twenty year old criminology student, Marisol Valles, stands outside of her office in the northern Mexican border town of Praxedis G. Guerrero municipality in Chihuahua State.
“(AFP) – A 20-year-old female criminology student was named police chief of a northern Mexican border town plagued by drug violence because no one else wanted the job, AFP reported Tuesday.
Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe “since she was the only person to accept the position,” the mayor’s office of the town of some 10,000 people near the U.S. border told local media late Monday.”
Illegal Aliens: in Yucatan, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 15/Oct/2010 16:18
“Mexican immigration officials called it somewhat unusual, but in the city of Merida they found four aliens illegally in Mexico; three of them were labeled as Hindus and one as Central American.
And at the same city’s airport, they found two others also illegally in Mexico, one from China and the other from Guatemala. All six are now detained.”
http://rotativo.com.mx/migracion/aseguran-a-seis-indocumentados-en-yucatan/41116/html/