Thread: Mexico Attorney General Blames Own Citizens for Criminality

Saturday, 05 April 2008
Mexico Attorney General Blames Own Citizens for Criminality

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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 4/5/08

1. Mexico's Attorney General, Eduardo Medina-Mora, blamed Mexico's citizens for the high index of criminality in Mexico. Upon becoming chairman of the new Board of Directors of the Citizens' Participation Council of the "PGR" (Mex. Dep't. of Justice), the AG said that crime is not a homogeneous expression because it is only found in areas abandoned by the citizenry. He pointed out that in the most insecure areas of the country "there is an inhibited community, a society which does not occupy its public areas and which does not have a feeling of belonging" and called for their increased use by the public as a means to inhibit criminal "expressions."
He also called for the public to watch over the actions of the authorities and to demand from them the fulfillment of their responsibilities, which is to bring about the minimum conditions for security. He added that in this context Mexico has required a deployment of city and state police and of the military to fence-in the areas of operation of the criminal groups who felt they owned those zones.

2. Nine executions, an attack with dynamite, gagged bodies and street gunfire aimed at a prison guard have so far been the response to "Joint Operation Chihuahua." Chihuahua has now reached 235 homicides linked to organized crime during 2008.

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La Jornada (Mexico City) 4/5/08

(note: the following are the first three paragraphs of an op/column by Carlos Beas Torres titled "Oaxaca, endless violence" ; the balance of the column only elaborates on these parts. Oaxaca is next to Chiapas, which is at the border with Guatemala)

The insecurity and violence which maintain Oaxacan society in fear are another proof of the grave disintegration which that southern state is experiencing. Not a day goes by in Oaxaca without learning about new executions, kidnappings and arbitrary detentions; numerous assaults and murders have taken place in the last weeks, events carried out in broad daylight, and in the majority of the cases those responsible have not been detained.

That spiral of violence is already generalized and has become worse in the last six months; it has reached wealthy businessmen as well as simple town folks. This violent escalade has also impacted the political class because in the last few days various party leaders have been kidnapped or murdered, well-known police chiefs have been executed and two security escorts of a local congressman died in a recent attack.

Nevertheless, this escalade is not similar to that which shakes the rest of the country. It's true that the executions and the kidnappings occur daily in all Mexico and that there is no region where violence may not have settled in, but in Oaxaca many of these acts have the hallmarks of the very same police entities or of the gangs of gunmen and hitmen working for "PRI" executives and leaders.

(note: "PRI" - Partido Revolucionario Institucional - is the political party which controlled Mexico for most of the 20th century)

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Noticias (Oaxaca, Oaxaca) 4/5/08

Last Monday the Mex. army detained fifteen "presumed" "Zetas" in Oaxaca; this in turn led to the finding of a "narco grave" in that city and now three bodies have been found. Digging continues.

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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez edition) 4/5/08

In Juarez twelve persons in possession of drugs and/or weapons were arrested in various operations carried out by Mex. military. And the past two administrators of the Mex. Customs agency in Juarez were fined and one of them barred from holding any public post for two years because of of violations of law, corruption and malfeasance. One of the fines was 53,000 pesos and the other 25 thousand. (the current exchange rate is 10:60 pesos to 1 U.S. dollar). The current administrator is currently also under investigation.

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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 4/5/08

At Niltepec, Oaxaca, Mex. military and immigration personnel arrested about one hundred "Central American immigrants" riding aboard a freight train coming from Chiapas. And in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, officials arrested two "polleros" who were transporting fourteen illegal aliens to cross the border into the United States. And in Nuevo Dia, federal agents stopped a light truck with no license plates; the "undocumented occupants" presented false electoral credentials and when asked to sing the Mexican National Anthem they were unable to do so.

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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/5/08

In Nogales, Sonora, military arrested three men in possession of 13 shoulder weapons, 3 handguns, 17 clips, 27 cellular phones, ski masks, binoculars, 7 vehicles and 5 ATV's. Ten persons have been arrested for illegal firearms possession and traffic within the last week.

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 4/5/08

Ten Tijuana police officers have been murdered in less than five months; five persons are in custody in relation to those murders. Ballistics exams point toward the use of the same assault rifles in some of these murders and thus the existence of a "police-killer" commando group.

In mid-town Tijuana police stopped a possibly stolen vehicle for speeding; the two younger men inside each had pistols, ammo, bullet proof vests, handcuffs, 4 cell phones, ski masks and a pair of "anti-gunpowder" gloves.

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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 4/5/08

A 100 sq. meter field planted with poppy and marihuana was found five kilometers S.E. of the Venustiano Carranza farm in the Mexicali valley. The young plants were among other taller plants used as camouflage to prevent aerial detection.

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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 4/5/08

Mex. federal agents detained three "polleros" in the border area of Agua Prieta, Sonora (town across from Douglas AZ). The three David Arturo Castro, Francisco Rosario Valdez Castro and Adrian Belisario Amador, all from Los Mochis, were near the "La Morita" Ranch, on Km. 26 of the Agua Prieta-Cananea highway. They had with them one hundred persons whom they intended to take into the United States illegally. And in Caborca, Sonora, one Carlos Valenzuela Gonzalez was found with a tripod "Delta Mak" 7.62X39 mm. machine gun, 3 rifles of the same caliber plus a 30-30 and an AR15 rifle, silencers for AR15, 3 circular clips for shoulder weapons, 2 clips and 2,610 rounds of ammo.

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El Universal (Mexico City) 4/5/08

That shootout between police and military in northern Nuevo Leon state (reported by us yesterday) turned our to have been caused by a pair of drunk military deserters, both of whom ended up dead along with three police and one civilian.

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And in Nuevo Dia, federal agents stopped a light truck with no license plates; the "undocumented occupants" presented false electoral credentials and when asked to sing the Mexican National Anthem they were unable to do so.

Interesting...........

Mex. federal agents detained three "polleros" in the border area of Agua Prieta, Sonora (town across from Douglas AZ). The three David Arturo Castro, Francisco Rosario Valdez Castro and Adrian Belisario Amador, all from Los Mochis, were near the "La Morita" Ranch, on Km. 26 of the Agua Prieta-Cananea highway. They had with them one hundred persons whom they intended to take into the United States illegally.

Truck or train would be only way to smuggle 100 illegal immigrants into the U.S. even if broken down into 4 groups of 25 each.
Do any of the three work as truckers or associated in any way with Bush's truck pilot program?

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Benjamin Franklin

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