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Mexican drug cartels target bystanders
2008-07-30 18:55:00 GUAMUCHIL, Mexico - The three teenagers started their big weekend singing “Happy Birthday” to the parish priest. The next day, they prayed for hours with their church youth group, then went on to a quinceañera, Mexico’s archetypal 15th-birthday celebration. As the party wound down, they talked their parents into letting them go for a late-night cruise ...
By: TexasFred's
Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, tec
2008-06-03 14:05:00 Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed. The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work. The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share ...
By: Mexico Trucker
The Truth behind the Narco Wars in Cd. Juarez
2008-06-03 05:41:00 Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city’s lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes. Whether true or not, Juárez and other parts of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this year have become ground zero in ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Outgunned, outmanned, Mexican Army brings the fight to the cartels
2008-06-02 05:08:00 CULIACAN, Mexico ? Automatic weapons at the ready, the platoons of federal police officers descend from the transport planes and high-step as neatly as majorettes into the searing heat. Gen. Rodolfo Cruz puts the officers through their paces as TV cameras record the event. ?Here we are, showing our faces,? said Cruz, 65, a career army officer ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Drug Cartels Target Juarez Police
2008-05-21 06:28:00 (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) Earlier this year, drug cartels posted a handwritten hit list, naming 22 Juarez police commanders, on a monument to fallen officers. Since posting of the list, seven commanders have been murdered, three have been wounded in assassination...
By: Diggers Realm
Phoenix gun dealer sold to Mexican drug cartels
2008-05-07 04:26:00 PHOENIX?The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operation that supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, authorities said. Agents raided X Calibur Guns and arrested George Iknadosian after undercover agents bought guns at the store indicating they were to be trafficked to Mexico, said Carlos Baixauli, a special agent ...
By: Mexico Trucker
One dead in gun battle between Military and Narcos in Cd. Mier
2008-05-02 18:46:00 NUEVO LAREDO - A gunfight between military forces and alleged drug traffickers that lasted more than an hour in the predawn hours Wednesday left one soldier dead and at least three others injured, authorities confirmed Thursday.An unknown number of traffickers also were killed and injured, authorities said. The assault occurred in Ciudad Mier, about 60 miles ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Reynosa Police Chief arrested by Federal Authorities
2008-04-18 14:27:00 MONTERREY, Mexico ? The chief of police of Reynosa, the city across the Rio Grande from McAllen and Hidalgo, was detained by federal police Thursday, according to Mexican media reports and officials.Statements issued by Reynosa’s city hall said Juan José Muñiz Salinas was detained at 1:20 p.m. by federal police officers. City officials said the ...
By: Mexico Trucker
In Mexico, War on Drug Cartels Takes a Toll
2008-04-14 05:41:00 NOCUPETARO, Mexico -- Plastic sacks give Norberto Ramírez chills.
By: Get rich
Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare by Richard
2008-02-09 08:30:00 Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics, Richard Epstein examines how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention—and find a middle way between socialism and libertarianism. He argues the merits of competition over protectionism and reveals the negative results that ensue when political forces displace economic competition with subsidies and barriers to entry....
By: Asiaing.com
Mexican cartels feeling the pressure
2008-01-27 15:40:00 "There will be no retreat. We are not going to take a step back. The fight against crime is going to to be permanent, systematic."
By: Mexico Trucker
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 ...
By: Mexico Trucker
UN official urges world to rescue Guinea-Bissau from drug cartels(AFP) (Af
2007-12-21 06:13:00 UN official urges world to rescue Guinea-Bissau from drug cartels(AFP) AFP - Donors pledged millions of dollars at a conference Wednesday to help Guinea Bissau, which a top UN official called"under siege"by drug cartels who might even sway the country's future polls. Graft case puts focus on ANC's No. 2(AP) AP - Calm and measured, the new deputy ...
UN official urges world to rescue Guinea-Bissau from drug cartels(AFP) (Af
2007-12-20 02:12:00 UN official urges world to rescue Guinea-Bissau from drug cartels(AFP) AFP - Donors pledged millions of dollars at a conference Wednesday to help Guinea Bissau, which a top UN official called"under siege"by drug cartels who might even sway the country's future polls. High expectations of Zuma in SAfrica(AP) AP - The newly elected leader of South Africa's ruling party rose to power on the backs of trade unionists, communists and the poor. The challenge now is to satisfy his supporters without sacrificing the nation's economy. Planning for UN force in Somalia urged(AP) AP - The Security Council asked the U.N. chief on Wednesday to plan for the possible deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia to replace African Union troops. Bookmark to:
Terrorists Team With Hispanic Drug Cartels, So Let?s Cut The NG Numbers
2007-08-10 05:57:00 Yup, these are the people who need comprehensive immigration reform (Washington Post) Islamic extremists embedded in the United States ? posing as Hispanic nationals ? are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report. The 2005 report outlines an ongoing scheme in which multiple ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Terrorists Teaming Up With Drug Cartels
2007-08-09 07:39:00 From the Washington Times:Terrorists teaming with drug cartelsIslamic extremists embedded in the United States ? posing as Hispanic nationals ? are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report. "Since drug traffickers and terrorists operate in a clandestine environment, both groups utilize similar methodologies to function ... all lend themselves to facilitation and are among the essential elements that may contribute to the successful conclusion of a catastrophic event by terrorists," said the confidential report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.(snip)In the two years since the report was written, other DEA intelligence officials have said they are still struggling to cooperate with and share and gather information from other lead U.S. agencies charged with fighting the war on terrorism.(snip)"We are the eyes and ears when it comes to gathering intelligence ...
By: Dyre Portents
U.S. Aid Would Target Mexican Drug Cartels
2007-08-08 07:46:00 MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7 -- The Bush administration is close to sealing a major, multiyear aid deal to combat drug cartels in Mexico that would be the biggest U.S. anti-narcotics effort abroad since a seven-year, $5 billion program in Colombia, according
By: Get rich
Mexican cartels outgun towns
2007-07-10 03:34:00 Mexican cartels outgun towns Have you ever wondered why so many Mexicans are flooding this nation?? This story will give you a great insight into some of the whys, I don’t blame them for wanting to leave but why do they feel they have to come here and turn South L.A. into Tijuana?? It’s because of their corrupt ...
By: TexasFred's
Mexico cartels outgun rural cops
2007-07-09 18:01:00 Perilous road NACO, MEXICO The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border.
By: Get rich
European drug cartels target Goa
2007-05-14 08:39:00 BY TONY MARTIN Property prices in coastal paradise Goa have seen an unprecedented boom with real estate giants from across the world, including the Russian drug mafia, making a beeline for a silver of land here. ?Tourists from Russia, especially those staying in Goa on long visas, are coming under increasing scrutiny after allegations that east ...
By: Goa Blog
Rappers Sing Praises of Mexican Drug Cartels
2007-04-09 08:40:00 MEXICO CITY -- Bloody bodies -- slumped at steering wheels, stacked in pickup trucks, crumpled on sidewalks -- clog nearly every frame of the music video that shook Mexico's criminal underworld.
By: Get rich
Rappers Sing Praises of Mexican Drug Cartels
2007-04-09 08:40:00 MEXICO CITY -- Bloody bodies -- slumped at steering wheels, stacked in pickup trucks, crumpled on sidewalks -- clog nearly every frame of the music video that shook Mexico's criminal underworld.
By: Get rich
Drug cartels declare war on Mexican government
2007-03-24 06:09:00 Mexico City, March 24: The war between Mexico's drug cartels and the state has intensified, with a death toll of nine police officers and others this week.
By: newkerala.com
In the Crossfire of the Drug Cartels
2007-02-26 16:09:02 Allan Wall A Mexican congressman shot, and hundreds of families evicted from their homes. It was another week in the Mexican War on Drugs. On February 19th, 2007, Mexican congressman Horacio Garza Garza (of the PRI, the Institutional Revolutionary Party) was in cartel-embattled Nuevo Laredo (he is a former mayor of the city). While being driven by his chauffeur back to the airport, to return to Mexico City, the red Suburban in which he traveled was attacked by a gunman. Congressman Garza was injured and survived, but the chauffeur died — which was not surprising since 15 bullets had entered the vehicle, all on the driver’s side. The Gulf Cartel is suspected as being the culprit. Garza says that before the attempt he had received death threats. Also, in the previous year two of his chauffeurs had been executed. There is a theory, however, that the chauffeur and not Garza was the actual target. ...
By: Chauffeurs Blog
Drug cartels in Mexico use the internet to taunt rivals
2007-02-16 08:17:01 The drug war in Mexico has taken a new twist with gangs reportedly using the internet to taunt rival cartels. Police in the country are monitoring popular video sharing site Youtube for clips that are posted by gang members. Most of these clips are very gruesome in nature. The authenticity of these clips has not been verified. Youtube spokepersons have said that the site has a strict policy against posting violent videos. Users can flag down such clips and are they removed from the site. Mexico’s border with the US is a lucrative market for drug cartels who smuggle huge quantities of drugs into the country, a leading market for illegal narcotics. A reported 300 people lost their lives in drug related violence in Tijuana last year. President Felipe Calederon has vowed to crush drug cartels in Mexico after he took over the presidency last year. Via - BBC.
By: Bot-Hack
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