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Mexico welcomes returning migrants
2007-12-26 04:37:00 "Those who attempt to present Mexican migrant workers as enemies of the United States, be it as a result of ignorance, ill intention, political or economic interests, are mistaken," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said. More About: Mexico
Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa - Still talking out both sides of his ass!
2007-12-24 01:14:00 I wish someone would show me these “dangerous and unsafe” Mexican trucks that Hoffa continues to rant about. Also, could someone prove to me the illegality of this program? The only illegality that I have seen is the United States not living up to it’s obligations that it agreed to under the NAFTA agreement. And Jimmy Hoffa, ... More About: Sides , Talking , Teamsters
The Great Exodus - Immigrants go home for holidays
2007-12-23 17:41:00 They bring gifts to family they left in Mexico ? and worries about life in the United States NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO ? Christmas for some of Mexico’s poorer communities has been rolling southward in thousands of vehicles from the United States. About 1.2 million Mexican immigrants and U.S.-born dependents were expected to make the pilgrimage home this ... More About: Holidays , Home , Great , Border Crossing , Exodus
12 Tons of drugs destroyed by Mexican Army
2007-12-21 17:15:00 This week, in a secure area known as “Estación Cuarentenaria”, the Mexican Army with the assistance and oversight of the PGR and AFI, destroyed more than 12 tons of illegal drugs seized over the past two months. In an area of Highway 2, (Nuevo Laredo -Reynosa Highway) the drugs, mostly marijuana, cocaine, psychotrapics (pills) and other illegal ... More About: Drugs
OOIDA: Threat of Mexico blocking trade with U.S. unsubstantiated
2007-12-21 16:38:00 I have been consistent is stating throughout this debate “Be careful what you wish for. You may not like what you get”! While the Teamsters are “ecstatic” ( a bit premature I would think) over what they think will be the death of the cross border program, Todd Spencer and the looney toons at OOIDA are ... More About: Mexico , Trade , Threat , Locking
Broken pact; Mexico expected to ban U.S. truck drivers
2007-12-21 16:13:00 and damned near spilt it on "the boys"! Once again, you read where OOIDA and the Teamsters can't get their stories straight. Now they're saying they did and "investigation" between 2006 and 2007 and "found" 1700 violations. Mexico Truck er has disproved this in an earlier essay. And OOIDA concentrated on the companies operations within the commercial zone. Equipment used in the 25 mile commercial zone is much different than what is used for long haul operations The we have Henry Cuellar and Sen. John Cornyn. In my previous conversations and correspondence with Senator Cornyn, he was very mush mouthed and non committal about his support or lack of for the cross border program. Look at them now! But read on. Contradictions to this story are highlighted in BOLD Retaliation is expected by the Mexican government in response to a decision this week by the U.S. Congress to stop the cross-border trucking pilot program for long-haul Mexican transport companies.A provision included in ... More About: Drivers , Broken
A crime that will never be solved! - You be the Judge
2007-12-21 15:42:00 The victims lived quietly at the Timber Ridge Apartments, said Lt. John Cook, a Sharonville police spokesman. "People I have had contact with said these guys kept pretty much to themselves, went to work and came home," Cook said last week. "It was a simple lifestyle, no wild parties or anything like that." More About: Judge , Crime
Trucking Bozo concedes defeat - ?They win?
2007-12-21 05:11:00 I was listening to Dale Sommers aka “The Trucking Bozo” this afternoon and was surprised to hear him say he didn’t want to talk about the Mexican’s anymore. “I give up, they’ve won” to paraphrase his words. Bozo, we accept your surrender! And I think more and more of the critics are resigned to the fact. Leslie Miller, ... More About: Teamsters
January 2008 shutdown of Mexican border, probably a hoax
2007-12-21 04:54:00 Once again, OOIDA appears to be exaggerating things that do not seem to exist. In a recent article, moving around the internet, their headline reads. SPECIAL REPORT: Mexican truckers planning to block border They claim to have obtained this information from a financial newspaper in Mexico City called El Financiero I have this peculiar little habit of back checking ... More About: January , Hoax , January 2008 , 2008
Mexico Trucker once again, validated in the Cross Border debate
2007-12-19 16:42:00 It’s obvious opponents of the cross border program, who have used political influence, donations to PAC’s (bribery) exaggerations of the truth and out and out lies, to press forward their opposition, or no doubt celebrating what they consider to be the imminent death of the Mexican Cross Border program. Those who have followed the debate through ... More About: Mexico , Debate , The Cross , Vali
Abuse on the border
2007-12-18 17:55:00 U.S. Border Patrol should stop its tear-gas assaults in Tijuana What would Americans think if Mexican officials routinely fired pepper spray and tear gas into California neighborhoods as a way to root out, say, smugglers who were operating from the U.S. side of the border? How would we, as Americans, feel if our houses were damaged, ... More About: Abuse , Borderlands , On The Border
2 Soldiers murdered in retaliation for 7 ton drug seizure
2007-12-16 14:00:00 NUEVO LAREDO - Two people found dead execution-style earlier this week were soldiers involved in the recent seizure of seven tons of marijuana, military authorities confirmed Friday. One man was identified as José Eduardo Varela Guillen, in his early 20s. The other victim’s name was not immediately available. So far this year, six soliders have died ... More About: Soldiers , Drug
Press Release - Customs & Border Protection - El Paso Sector
2007-12-15 06:44:00 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers performing anti-terror inspections at ports of entry in El Paso , West Texas and New Mexico made 38 drug seizures this week, confiscating 4,654 pounds of marijuana in 36 busts and a small amount of cocaine in two additional seizures. While many of the drug seizures were consistent with ... More About: Press Release , Press , Release
OOIDA responds to Mexico Trucker!
2007-12-14 23:42:00 I got a good laugh today! I was checking back links and came across this interesting little item! More than 255,000 hits this year would tend to once again, disprove an allegation from OOIDA More About: Mexico
USDOT-OIG to conduct audit of CDLIS
2007-12-14 15:20:00 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General plans to initiate a performance audit of the Commercial Driver?s License Information System as required by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act ?- A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). More About: Audit
Aldrete-Davilla, again, denied bond!
2007-12-14 14:29:00 Admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who is at the center of a national controversy over the conviction of two El Paso Border Patrol agents, was denied bond Monday by a federal judge in El Paso, court documents showed.Aldrete, who faces drug conspiracy and possession charges, was ordered detained without bond because “there is a ... More About: Security , Bond
Ramos - Campeon supporters demand release of the convicted felons
2007-12-13 07:14:00 What a daddy in laws money and influence can do. Now they are sponsoring a resolution to have these two felons released, their records expunged and all rights returned to them. At this is the element of our society that advocates stiffer sentences for criminals, under the criminals are “heroes” of the “whitey rightey” crowd. Now, they ... More About: Release , Ramos , Supporters , Demand , Felons
Paisanos Returning - The road home to Mexico
2007-12-13 06:44:00 Editors Note: This time of the year and during the Easter seasons, hundred of thousands of Mexican workers return home to families in Mexico . Some legal, others undocumented. And with the certainty that most will return to their jobs after the holidays. Cesar Corona, a migrant worker from Mexico who held restaurant and groundskeeping ... More About: Culture , Home , Road , The Road
Audit of Cross Border Program begins
2007-12-13 06:27:00 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General is beginning an audit of President Bush’s cross-border trucking program that Congress mandated in the appropriations bill passed in May. The office says the audit’s objectives will be to determine whether: Sufficient mechanisms exist to determine whether the project is hurting motor-carrier safety. Sufficient federal and state monitoring and ... More About: Cross , Audit , Program
Mexican soldiers take down 7 tons of marijuana, arrest 2
2007-12-12 20:58:00 NUEVO LAREDO ? Soldiers here seized more than seven tons of marijuana and made two arrests at the 26-kilometer checkpoint over the weekend.It’s one of the largest recent seizures in the Sister City. The illegal drugs were coming from Torreón, Coahuila, officials said. The drugs were being transported in a tractor-trailer rig driven by Juan Diego ... More About: Mexican , Arrest , Marijuana , Nuevo Laredo
From the grave to the Grammy?s - Dead Singers in competition
2007-12-08 16:52:00 MEXICO CITY ? Two Mexican singers who were murdered in a wave of drug-related slayings will be competing from the grave for the same prize after they were nominated for a coveted Grammy music industry award.Valentin Elizalde, killed by drug hitmen last year, and the band K-Paz de la Sierra whose lead singer Sergio Gomez ... More About: Competition , Dead , Grave , Singers
Calderon: Orders Mexican consuls to fight anti-immigrant attitudes
2007-12-08 01:06:00 "The key is to neutralize this strategy of confrontation and discrimination that forms part of U.S. society's mistaken perception, and be able to newly focus arguments on the complimentary aspects of our economies More About: Mexican , Fight , Attitudes , Felipe Calderon , Anti
Tis the Season - Microsoft shuts down Santa for dirty talk
2007-12-07 11:34:00 Just can’t have no fun anymore! Microsoft Corp. quickly shut down Santa Claus ’ Web privileges after it found out the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with was talking naughty, not nice. More About: Christmas , Season
Los Conde trumpeter Jose Aquino found murdered - Third in a week
2007-12-07 11:18:00 A trumpet player was found dead with his hands and feet bound and a nylon bag over his head in southern Mexico, in what authorities said was apparently the country’s third murder of a musician in less than a week.Jose Luis Aquino, 33, had been hit repeatedly on the head, said a spokesman for the ... More About: Trumpeter , Week , Conde , Third
Forget the border fence - Smugglers at U.S. border build an underground wor
2007-12-07 11:04:00 The tunnel opening cut into the floor of a shipping container here drops three levels, each accessible by ladders, first a metal one and then two others fashioned from wood pallets. The tunnel stretches 1,300 feet to the south, crossing the Mexican border some 50 feet below ground and proceeding to a sky-blue office building ... More About: Build , Underground , Fence
Teamsters? Hoffa leads protectionist border rally protesting trucking progr
2007-12-07 10:17:00 U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella-DeLaney, who was at the rally, said union protectionism is the real force behind opposition and that Hoffa does not have the facts to back up his claims of unsafe trucks and drivers. More About: Leads , Rally , Trucking , Teamsters , Protectionist
OOIDA - Continuing to misrepresent the facts about Cross Border Trucking
2007-12-07 10:01:00 After a lull in the campaign of misinformation being thrown about by OOIDA and it’s leadership <sic>, suddenly more “facts” emerge in their efforts to derail the Cross Border Truck Program. I say “facts”, because what they are reporting could not be further from the truth. World Net Daily, scraping a piece from the in-house rag ... More About: Facts , Mexico , Trucking , Conti
K-Paz De La Sierra Singer Sergio Gomez Murdered
2007-12-04 17:39:00 The lead singer of well-known Mexican band K-Paz de la Sierra was abducted and strangled to death, adding to a list of performers killed in a violent crime wave. Sergio Gomez , whose group had close ties to Chicago, and two music promoters, were seized by armed men in the western Mexican state of Michoacan in the ... More About: Singer
Singer shot to death after surgery in Matamoros ER
2007-12-04 14:35:00 MEXICO CITY ? Apart from the police and narco-gangsters, few groups have suffered more in Mexico’s brutal drug wars than the singers whose music often chronicles the carnage. The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the ... More About: Surgery , Death , Shot , Singer , Urge
Former mayor of Rio Bravo, 2 AFI Agents assassinated [Graphic Images]
More articles from this author:2007-12-01 15:56:00 Editor’s Note: Get this out there before Glenn Beck and other’s put their hate spin on it. Another honest politician gunned down! RIO BRAVO, Mexico ? A memorial of flowers and candles took up yards of sidewalk Friday near the bullet-riddled cafeteria where a former mayor who had promised to rid this city of drug ... More About: Agents , Images , Bravo , Graphic , Mayor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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