Thread: 2,764 Executions in Mexico Last Year

Two Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-Four (2,764 ) Executions in Mexico Last Year
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Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 2/9/08

In Chihuahua City, the state capital, Patricio Patino Arias, the Sub-Secretary for Strategic Intelligence for the "AFI" (Mex. Federal Investigations Agency) & the "Federal Preventive Police", said that 97% of victims of execution which take place in Mexico are related to organized crime. Following an increase this year in the murder of law enforcement officers of various federal, state & local agencies he asserted that these events were linked to drug or weapons trafficking or some other illegal activity linked to some cartel. He added that there were 2,764 executions in Mexico last year.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) & El Universal (Mexico City) 2/9/08

The execution murder of the four local police officers in Navolato, Sinaloa (noted in yesterday's report) brought to 25 the number of law enforcement personnel who have died in that fashion in the state of Sinaloa in the last 13 months, including the case of the state's chief of investigations of the "Ministerial Police", who was riddled with 60 bullets a year ago in Culiacan.
In the equivalent period in the state of Chihuahua, 30 law enforcement officers have been murdered, 16 of them in Ciudad Juarez.
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 2/9/08

Thursday night on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway, state of Tamaulipas (note: this is just up and across the river from Brownsville, Texas) a Land Rover and a Hummer failed to stop when ordered by Mexican federal agents. A pursuit of about 18 miles began and included some firing from the vehicles being chased.
When stopped, the Land Rover (Florida license plate L47BA) was found to be carrying 2 AR15 rifles, 2 pistols, 13 clips, 249 rounds of ammunition, 6 cellular phones and 20,000 Colombian pesos. Two subjects were arrested.
A short while later the Hummer was found abandoned, but not empty. Inside: 29 packages of cocaine (size or weight not given), eight "communications radios", 12 grenades, 17 long barrel firearms, 20 handguns, 62 clips and 500 boxes of ammunition of various calibers, or some 25,000 rounds.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 2/9/08

Officials of Mexico's "PGR" (their Dep't. of Justice) reported that 4,205 firearms, 706,170 rounds of ammunition and 518 (five hundred eighteen) grenades were confiscated in Mexico last year.
The states of Mexico with the highest organized crime activity were said to be Chihuahua, Michoacan, Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Sonora "due to the mobility of the Gulf and Sinaloa cartel members who have tried to find new markets for the consumption of drug."
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 2/9/08

The Tijuana police payroll system was recently changed. Instead of automatic deposits to a debit card, salaries are now paid by check, which requires all personnel to appear in person to sign for their check. While individuals assigned to special duties (escorts, body guards) or those temporarily handicapped were slow to collect their pay, some 200 checks remain unclaimed, leading officials to believe this new system filter may have detected a good number of "ghost" employees (note: called "aviators" or "parachutists" in local slang).
An investigation is under way.
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 2/9/08

Tomas Gloria Requena, president of the "Agrarian Youth Vanguard", said that "more than" 350 thousand younger Mexicans fled to the neighboring country" last year and that it is alarming that they have to do so because of the lack of Mexican government support for younger field workers. He pointed out that the larger problem Mexico faces will be after the border fence is completed by the American government: "what are we going to do with all those people that they are going to repatriate and with those others who had thought about going but who won't have that opportunity?"
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El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 2/9/08

Mexico's Public Security Dep't. reported that 12 men and a woman from Nicaragua, 20 men and 18 women from Honduras, 5 men and 3 women from El Salvador and one woman from Ecuador were all found in an 18-wheeler in the state of Tabasco, Mexico.
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El Pais (Cali, Colombia) 2/9/08

A suitcase which had come from the U.S. arrived at the airport in Cali on a commercial passenger flight. Under the cover of some clothing, officers found 18 packets of one hundred dollar bills. The total haul: $1,060,000. The suitcase was not claimed by anyone.
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In Chihuahua City, the state capital, Patricio Patino Arias, the Sub-Secretary for Strategic Intelligence for the "AFI" (Mex. Federal Investigations Agency) & the "Federal Preventive Police", said that 97% of victims of execution which take place in Mexico are related to organized crime. Following an increase this year in the murder of law enforcement officers of various federal, state & local agencies he asserted that these events were linked to drug or weapons trafficking or some other illegal activity linked to some cartel. He added that there were 2,764 executions in Mexico last year.

And President Bush, President Calderon and Prime Minister Harper want us to share in Mexico's prosperity, diversity and culture.

Will President Calderon promote this on his US tour?


"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion." Article IV Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.

I would think more of our supporters would want to comment on this?

W

This reminds me of a talk show host Rick Roberts every Friday does a segment 'This week in Mexico.' He'll give a rundown of the crimes across the border and attempts to discourage Americans from venturing down there because the msm sure doesn't say much about it. Wouldn't want to affect tourism.

Wonderful, just this morning Calderon is meeting with our congress to beg them to give out more visa's for Mexico and probably have a massave guest worker program, not to mention he wants his citizens here legalized.....

Guess he can't stand the U.S. not being as crime ridden as his country....don't worry Calderon we are well on its way to catching you.