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Mexico captures 11 hit men from powerful Sinaloa drug cartel
2008-01-23 04:22:00 "Yes, the cartel is operating here in Mexico City," said Edgar Millan, top commander of Mexico's national federal police, at a news conference following pre-dawn raids on two houses in southern Mexico City. Eight men were arrested in one raid and three in the other. More About: Cartel , Drug , Sinaloa
History of Mexican Special Forces (GAFES)
2008-01-23 03:19:00 With the occupation of the northern frontier of Mexico by the Mexican military, I thought it would be interesting to see just who these guys are. What I found was a very proud, highly trained and specialized force that could stand shoulder to shoulder with any Army unit in the world. The Grupo Aeromóvil ... More About: History , Special , Special Forces , Forces
11 Nuevo Laredo police officers, civilians, arrested by Federal Police
2008-01-21 20:25:00 Editor’s Note: Anybody who thinks President Calderon and his government are not serious about fighting the cartels and suppressing the corruption, needs to think again. It is a new era in Mexico. The people are fed up with the violence and corruption and demanding change. Four police officers and seven civilians accused of working for Mexico’s ... More About: Security , Arrested , Police , Corruption , Officers
Protests on the Border - Families of those arrested protest presence of GAF
2008-01-21 20:19:00 Families of the officers and civilian employees of the Nuevo Laredo Municpal Police, who were arrested Saturday staged a protest today in front of the military barracks and at the Bridge of the America’s. Saturday, 4 officers and 7 civilians were detained and accused of passing classified information concerning police and military movements to the ... More About: Security , Arrested , Presence , Protest , Families
Corruption! It ain?t just a Mexico thang
2008-01-21 05:35:00 Any body remember this assklown, that we reported on several months ago? Well, once again, Mexico trucker.com got it right! Landline Now is reporting, A former Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper will reportedly receive no jail time after he was indicated in October on 10 different counts tied to official misconduct, including allowing a motorist to perform a ... More About: Corruption
Mexico following US elections closely
2008-01-20 13:44:00 MONTERREY, Mexico ? Cecilia Reyes can’t say where the first Democratic caucus was held but knows Hillary Clinton took New Hampshire by three points over her main opponent ? whose name she can’t remember but she knows has Kenyan roots. Reyes, a Mexican citizen, can’t vote in November’s U.S. presidential election. But she’s pulling ... More About: Elections
In the line of duty - Border Patrol officer killed by fleeing vehicles
2008-01-20 02:52:00 YUMA, Az — A Border Patrol officer was run over and killed on Saturday as he attempted to lay a spike strip to stop a speeding Hummer in the sand dunes of Imperial County. Authorities in El Centro and Yuma, Ariz. said the agent was killed in the line of duty along the Mexican border in ... More About: Vehicles , Line , Killed , Officer
Why we need revised CDL standards, and now!
2008-01-19 02:51:00 In view of all the comments from those not qualified to make comments about Mexican drivers, I got a good laugh out of this article. This trainer is barely potty trained and has no business even attempting to train anyone else. At best, he has 4 years of heavily supervised OTR experience. Go figure! On that ... More About: Standards
Back to Mexico; U.S. hands over suspected killer
2008-01-18 15:26:00 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents met Mexican federal agents on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge on Wednesday to transfer custody of a prisoner wanted in Mexico for homicide and drug trafficking, authorities said.Officials with the Agencia Federal de Investigacion, who took custody of Juan Garcia-Flores, 36, said he is wanted in Guanajuato and the border ... More About: Killer , Hands , Back , Borderlands
Aeromóvil Special Forces Group (GAFES) deployed from Matamoros to Nuevo Lar
2008-01-18 12:04:00 Arriving on board military transport at Nuevo Laredo International Airport, 250 members of Aeromóvil Special Forces Group (GAFES), Mexico’s equivalent of the US Army’s elite Ranger’s, boarded a convoy of 32 military vehicles to be dispersed at various points around the city. The troops will be garrisoned with the cities 1st Motorized Cavalry ... More About: Breaking News , Special Forces
U.S. attorney general announces stepped up effort to stem weapons trafficki
2008-01-17 04:12:00 The United States is giving Mexico access to an electronic database to help trace weapons smuggled from the U.S. into the hands of well-armed Mexican drug gangs, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday.The database, known as e-Trace, has already been installed at U.S. consulates in the northern cities of Monterrey and Hermosillo and in ... More About: Breaking News , Weapons , Attorney General
Mexico Transparency reports 115 million bribes per year paid.
2008-01-16 06:56:00 I ran across an interesting blog posting by our friend Sean Mattson, the San Antonio Express-News correspondent in Monterrey. For those who may not remember, Sean was a big help in providing information and follow up on the truck explosion in Monclova last year. The article concerns a recent report issued by Transparency Mexico , dedicated ... More About: Paid , Open Government , Million
Two in a row! More B.S. from the master, Jimmy Hoffa!
2008-01-15 23:58:00 First Bozo and now Jimmy Hoffa. It amazes me how when desperation sets in, the bullshit intensifies. If you want to read the whole article, you can read his crap here. But we’re going to look at some excerpted paragraphs and show how this SOB has no morals when it comes to shading the truth. He’s talking ... More About: Opinions , Circuit , Master , The Master
Trucking Bozo spreading more fear and hate!
2008-01-15 23:23:00 So what’s new? I happened to tune in to the show this afternoon about 4:55 (EST) to hear Dale Sommers begin his rant about the accident on the Pharr-Reynosa bridge. And as usual, not wanting to let the facts interfere with his warped and prejudiced opinion against anything Mexican, he let us all have a piece ... More About: Opinions , Hate , Fear , Trucking
President Calderon promises to stop lawlessness on the border
2008-01-13 05:07:00 NUEVO LAREDO - The federal government is taking no chances on seeing a recurrence of the drug-fueled violence that once plagued this major land port, sending additional military troops and federal police to the area. After the deadly confrontation earlier this week among police, soldiers and para-military criminal squads in the Rio Bravo Valley cities of ... More About: President , Stop , Promises , Lawlessness , Calderon
Ex Border Patrol Agent, wife, BUSTED!
2008-01-13 05:02:00 A former Border Patrol agent and his wife, who also own the restaurant Burger Patrol, were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants.An indictment unsealed in federal court Friday alleges that on three occasions in 2007, David Cruz, 32, and Susana Lopez-Portillo De Cruz, 35, conspired to transport illegal immigrants by motor ... More About: Agent , Wife , Busted
UPDATED: 4 dead on International bridge connecting Reynosa-Pharr
2008-01-11 14:19:00 "This is basically the second accident in the 15 years we've had the bridge," More About: International , Accident , Texas , Dead , Border Crossing
Keep on Truckin baby! Other?s share Mexico Trucker?s Opinions
2008-01-10 19:55:00 Finally, it must be assumed that members of Congress chose the wording of the transportation funding bill carefully. If they really wanted to forbid spending money on the cross-border program, surely our lawmakers would have blocked operation, not just the establishment, of such a plan. More About: Baby , Mexico , Opinions , Share
Mexican and American Trucks Will Continue to Roll Across the Border
2008-01-08 03:28:00 From our friends at Yucatan Living was pleased to see that the NAFTA treaties, related to trucking, will continue to be honored by the United States. Unfortunately, there is still a steady stream of opposition coming from the Teamsters in the U.S., where the people are being told that Mexican trucks are unsafe and that Mexican drivers ... More About: Mexico , Trucks , American , Roll
Cross Border Trucking - The inmates finally control the asylum!
2008-01-08 03:15:00 My little web-bots have been busy bringing to our attention the stupidity spewing from the mouths of the opponents of the Mexican Cross Border Program, and it continues to amaze me that folks actually believe this stuff. But then, America, long ago, forgot how to think for itself. So what’s been happening since before Christmas ... More About: Security , San Francisco , Opinions , Finally
Mexico to track migrations over border
2008-01-07 03:01:00 Editors Note: And they call Mexico an underdeveloped third world country? It appears they are implementing the technology we should be using to secure our borders while still allowing the free flow of people and commerce across the borders! Something to think about! Mexico plans to use cards with electronic chips to better track the ... More About: Border Crossing , Track
Looking back on 2007 and ahead to 2008
2008-01-06 19:25:00 What a year 2007 was. The war in Iraq continued and the casualty count is now well over three thousand and for what? To allow KBR civilian contractors and others to get rich scamming the government as those who were recently indicted in Afghanistan have shown us. Blackwater security employess used Iraq as their personal killing fields, ... More About: Back , Ahead , 2008 , Looking Back
FMCSA declares Tornado Bus Company ?Imminent Hazard?, suspends authority
2007-12-29 16:51:00 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - The bus company involved in a fatal crash in Arkansas last month has been declared an “imminent hazard” by the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA), and must immediately cease all commercial operations. The order was served to Tornado Bus Co., Inc., of Dallas, Texas, by FMCSA officials on Dec. 21, 2007. “Based ... More About: Company , Authority , Hazard , Ares
FMCSA declares Tornado Bus Company ?Imminent Hazard?, suspends authority
2007-12-29 16:51:00 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - The bus company involved in a fatal crash in Arkansas last month has been declared an “imminent hazard” by the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA), and must immediately cease all commercial operations. The order was served to Tornado Bus Co., Inc., of Dallas, Texas, by FMCSA officials on Dec. 21, 2007. “Based ... More About: Company , Authority , Hazard , Ares
FMCSA Press Release on Cross Border Program
2007-12-29 03:28:00 This press release was issued by FMCSA shortly after the President signed the $555 billion Omnibus Spending Bill In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico. The current cross-border trucking demonstration project ? established in September ? will continue to operate in ... More About: Press Release , Press , Cross , Release , Program
Mexican Cross Border Truck Program to continue
2007-12-29 03:27:00 A press release issued by the Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) two hours has this statement by Todd Spencer, Executive Vice President: ?We want to send a very big thanks to our association members for their participation in keeping the amendment in the bill,? said OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer. ?We also thank Congress ... More About: Truck , Mexican , Cross , Program
Mexico?s SCT reduces maximum allowable gross weight nationwide
2007-12-28 16:05:00 The Secretariat of Communications and Transport has issued an order advising all Mexican carrier of a reduction in the maximum allowable gross of a tractor trailer combo unit on Mexican roads. With a 3 month grace period in effect to allow carriers to adjust operations, the gross vehicle weight has been reduced from 81.5 tons (163,000) ... More About: Weight , Mexico , Gross , Weigh , Allo
BREAKING NEWS! - FMCSA orders Tornado Bus Lines to cease operations immedia
2007-12-27 22:39:00 "Based upon your present state of unacceptable safety compliance and your failure to adequately establish safety management systems and oversee your drivers' duty status and hours-of-service (HOS), your motor carrier operation poses an 'imminent hazard' to public safety, More About: News , Breaking News , Tornado , Lines , Breaking
FMCSA Press Release on Cross Border Program
2007-12-27 19:35:00 In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico. The current cross-border trucking demonstration project ? established in September ? will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first, with participating Mexican carriers subject to all safety standards required by the 2008 omnibus bill, while giving U.S. trucking companies new opportunities and U.S. consumers significant savings More About: Press Release , Breaking News , Opinions , Press , Cross
Trib - Administration?s move angers foes in Congress
More articles from this author:2007-12-27 16:33:00 ?(The) U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico ,? a government statement released yesterday said. ?The current cross-border trucking demonstration project ? established in September ? will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first.? More About: Congress , Administration , Move , Stration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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