Get Your Foreign News Report From South of the Border: Psychosis and fear trap Sinaloans
Posted by PHX - NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL on Sunday May 11, 2008 at 4:01 pm MDT

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El Universal (Mexico City) 5/11/08 Sinaloans have opted for locking themselves up inside their houses for fear of being victims of the drug cartel combats which have cost the lives of 46 persons so far this month. Not even yesterday, Day of the Mothers, (sic) did the residents go out to celebrate. The city looked desolate and fear spread itself among the population. -------------------

a.b.c. , El Universal (both Mexico City) , El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/11/08 , Mexico's National Security Cabinet will hold an urgent meeting Tuesday (5/13) in Culiacan regarding strategies against insecurity. Attending will be the Secretary of Government, Juan Mourino and his counterpart in Sinaloa, Jesus Aguilar. Also present will be the Secretary of Defense, Guillermo Galvan and the Att'y. Gen., Eduardo Medina, plus the Sec. of Federal Public Security, Genaro Garcia , the Sec. of the Navy and the Director of Natn'l. Investigations and Security Center.

Elsewhere in Culiacan: federal police surrounded and searched the office of an alleged private security and investigations firm; they seized twelve AK47 rifles, an AR15, a .40 caliber grenade launcher and a .50 caliber Barret rifle which can down aircraft and penetrate armor. Five subjects were arrested and have already been flown to Mexico City. One of the detainees, Alfonso Gutierrez Loera, is said to be a cousin of prominent drug dealer Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka "El Chapo.' Also seized at the same place: three grenades, 102 clips and 3,543 rounds of ammunition. -------------------

El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 5/11/08 (Note: the following was the introduction, in large italic font style, of a long recounting of past violent events generally in the state of Sinaloa) -
It is ever more clear that the violence associated with narcotraffic in Mexico cannot be contained by anything or anyone nor by the federal government or by a combination of both.... Moreover, its expansive wave corrodes practically everything in the entire Republic. What occurs these days in Sinaloa, Sonora and Guerrero, with repercussions even in the Distrito Federal, constitutes an example of what can be called the great failure of the Calderonista government: its total war against narcotraffic.
In the case of Sinaloa, the executions of police officers and of hired killers even reached Edgar Guzman, one of the sons of El Chapo, who died riddled by gunfire on Thursday the 8th. -
Federal, military, municipal and state authorities are preparing joint programs to reinforce Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Culiacan to stop the spiral of violence flailing the region. -----------------

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/11/08 The city of Juarez' Public Security office will stay in a red alert condition indefinitely due to the execution at dawn yesterday of the chief of police, Juan Antonio Roman Garcia.
This attack took place during a week in which police captain Mario Saul Pena Lopez was murdered and three bicycle patrol police officers were wounded in a shootout on Juarez Avenue. Further, the gunfire attack on the recently named head of the Babicon office (of the Juarez Police) and two of his escorts, all of who are still hospitalized. ------------------

La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 5/11/08 1,300 kilos of weed were found by Mex. military where they had been left on a side road in the desert south of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora . (this is just south of Yuma AZ) ------------------

Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 5/11/08 In Baja California violent assaults and robberies against individuals increased more than 90% in relation to last year and 500% in comparison with 2006. From January to March of this year there have been 2,263 cases of this type recorded in Tijuana, 69% of the 3,270 in the entire state. Officials recommend: try as much as possible to avoid showing that one is carrying money; do not wear attention getting jewelry; do not go to lonely spots; be careful about people who might approach you. ------------------

El Manana (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas) 5/11/08 A man and a young girl were standing at the corner of 20 de Noviembre and Gonzalez Sts. in Nuevo Laredo. When a passing police patrol unit saw them, the man bolted and disappeared. Thinking that the man might have been bothering her, the police officers approached the girl. "In an unusually cold tone, she told them she was selling heroin and showed them five bags of that substance." The girl, just 12 years old, was jailed. The man was not found. (no date was given for that report) -----------------

El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 5/11/08 On the Acapulco city limits on the way to San Marcos, Guerreo, a "camioneta" (the term for either an SUV or a p/u truck) came up alongside a taxi and its occupants fired on the persons in the taxi, killing the driver and his two passengers. Twenty-six AK47 shell casings were found.
Elsewhere in the state of Guerrero, there were contradictory accounts about a confrontation between federal police and a gang of criminals on the Guerrero-Michoacan state line. One man was later found dead; he'd been shot once on the mouth and once on the head. -----------------

La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 5/11/08 Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, said that the U.S. alert about visiting Mexico will not affect tourism; he added that the Americans who decide to travel to Mexico already know it well because on the contrary, with the violence, the narcotraffic and the executions which have taken place "they simply would not come." ------------------

Novedades de Quintana Roo (Cancun, Q.R.) 5/11/08 200 "elite" Mex. military personnel arrived in Chetumal yesterday to reinforce security operations and combat narcotraffic in the state due to the executions and kidnappings which have taken place in Cancun and Riviera Maya. (Chetumal is on the south end of the state of Quintana Roo and just north of the border with Belize) ------------------

La Jornada (Mexico City) 5/11/08 Fabian Nunez, "president of the California State Assembly", visited Mexico along with assemblyman Kevin de Leon and senator Abel Maldonado, "all three of Latin origin" and met with Felipe Calderon (sic), authorities of the various governmental entities, legislators, representatives of political parties and organizations which deal with the immigration issue. Nunez said an anti-immigrant wave such as is occurring especially against the children of undocumented persons had not been experienced since 1994 ; he promised that California assemblymen will do everything possible to counteract these events and will strive to block the anti-immigrant attacks by means of legislation. -------------------

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