Thread: $66.5 billion from the U.S. to Latin America in 2007

Individuals sent $66.5 billion from the U.S. to Latin America in 2007
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Foreign News Report


El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua), El Financiero (Mexico City) 3/11/08

Individual monetary remittances from individuals in the United States to individuals in Latin America are tracked by the Inter American Development Bank. A report by the bank shows that in 2007 those individual remittances reached 66.5 billion dollars, an increase of 7% over the previous year but the first time that the rate of increase of these amounts has dropped below ten percent in the last seven years mainly because of the amounts sent to Mexico and Brazil. Central American countries received 12.4 billion and the Andean countries' figure was 11.6 billion, while Mexico's was over 24 billion.

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O.E.M. (a nationwide paper chain in Mexico), & Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 3/11/08

Early yesterday morning Mexican federal agents raided an apartment in the heart of Cancun's tourist and hotel zone. They found twenty-two firearms, fourteen grenades, 67 clips & 1,500 rounds of ammo of various calibers. Most of the firearms were shoulder weapons (2 M16 with grenade launcher & laser attachments, 10 AR-15, 7 AK-47, 1 M-1). There were also 25 radios plus a dozen adhesive decals of several law enforcement agencies, some handcuffs, a dozen rolls of duct tape and a set of police vehicle license plates. (note: past reports of drug cartel executions have frequently mentioned that victims' hands and feet were tied with duct tape)

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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 3/11/08

At the "Yaqui y Justiciero" ranch in Caborca, Sonora, Mex. military uncovered 393 packages of marihuana weighing a total of one ton 190 kilos.

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Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 3/11/08

Among the weapons seized from criminals after an hours long shootout in Chihuahua City (our reports of 3/8/ & 3/9/08 relate) was a 50 caliber Barret rifle, "used mainly by snipers against vehicles, radars and command posts." The article went on to describe the rifle's specifications, muzzle velocity and range.

Lawyers for ten persons detained as a result of that shootout have already presented legal papers requesting that the law not be applicable to their clients in this case. ( note: a provision in Mexican law called "amparo" which shields individuals from the penalty provision of laws)

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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 3/11/08

State of Jalisco public security sources stated that they had received calls from criminals threatening to kill two kidnapped police officers if the officials do not release Ramon Chaiquez Gonzalez, a drug trafficker arrested Sunday and who bears a resemblance to "El Patron", a member of the Sinaloa Cartel. (our report of 3/10/08 relates)

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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/11/08

1. The Labor Party of Mexico has invited FARC and ELN - Colombian insurgent groups - to a forum in Mexico City this week and has offered to defray the expenses of their "personalities" while there. The seminary is titled "The Parties and the New Society" and one of its themes is "The construction project for an alternative nation." A Labor Party representative was not able to explain the relationships between FARC and the Labor Party.

2. Three out of four agents of the "elite" State of Durango Investigations Agency were killed after an ambush in Guanacevi, Durango. The fourth one is hospitalized.

And police also found the body of a man on the Acapulco-Zihuatenejo highway. He'd been shot seventeen times.

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 3/11/08

The Mayor of Tecate, Baja Calif., said that seventy of the 130 police officers in Tecate have been fired either because they failed drug detection tests or that they did not meet requirements. (note: Tecate is a border town less than 50 miles east of Tijuana)

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Excelsior (Mexico City) 3/11/08

1. Nine police officers of the Ensenada, Baja Calif., police force who had been members of Ensenada's "Immediate Reaction Special Tactical Group" were arrested in August 2005. They were identified as members of the "Black Command", a subsidiary of the Arellano Felix brothers drug cartel and were found guilty of kidnapping, organized crime and possession of restricted firearms. Their sentences ranged from 4 to 46 years in jail.

2. Four persons were murdered this morning (Tues.) in Yevabito (Navolato, very near Culiacan, Sinaloa.) This is the same area where various weapons arsenals and drugs were seized by federal forces last month. One hundred fourteen persons were murdered in the state of Sinaloa during January and February of this year.

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Noticias de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Oax.) 3/11/08

State police in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca, found a totally burned pickup truck on a dirt road. Inside was the body of a man, totally burned; his hands and feet had been tied with wire.

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The Labor Party of Mexico has invited FARC and ELN - Colombian insurgent groups - to a forum in Mexico City this week and has offered to defray the expenses of their "personalities" while there. The seminary is titled "The Parties and the New Society" and one of its themes is "The construction project for an alternative nation."

Invited insurgent groups to speak about construction of an alternative nation.............what type of nation?????