Thread: Executions up 47% in Mexico this year

Executions up 47 % in Mexico this year

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Foreign News Report

El Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 5/24/08 - and others -

In a demonstration of the high degree of cruelty which the war between the gangs of narcotraffickers has reached in the country, four human heads were found each in ice chests in front of a convenience store in the area of Durango, state of Durango. A message in the ice chests read "This is for the friends of "El Chapo", referring to Joaquin Guzman Loera, "El Chapo", head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. One other had a message saying: "We've arrived."

Also, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (right across from El Paso, TX) ten bodies were found: five "wrapped", three burned, two shot and two others decapitated, though in this case the heads were left on the corresponding bodies. There were "at least" 22 executions in the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa.

Mexico's Attorney General acknowledged yesterday (Fri.) that there has been a "significant increase" in murders in the northern states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Baja California. Also, that homicides due to organized crime have now risen to 1,478 so far in 2008 compared with last year and that in just over 17 months of President Calderon's administration there have been 4,152 executions of which 450 were law enforcement officers, prosecuting attorneys and military personnel.

Mexico's Secretary of Government (no equivalent U.S. agency), Juan Mourino, asserted that the government will not let up in the fight against criminal organizations and called upon the citizenry to dare to denounce and identify criminals, to respect the law and to demand that the law be respected.

Mexican military personnel searched a house at #440 Rio Humaja St., Colonia Guadalupe, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, and found $5,777,980 U.S. dollars in cash, 13,831 rounds of ammunition, 16 loaders for firearms, 24 cellular phones, 4 Kenwood radios and 2 vehicles, one of them armored.

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El Sol de Durango (Durango, Dgo.) 5/24/08

By 7:10 p.m. yesterday (Fri.) evening, two more human heads, each also in an ice chest, were found on the outskirts of Durango just a couple of kilometers away from the group of four. Again, they had threatening, obscene messages against "El Chapo" Guzman.

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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/24/08

Yesterday morning a man driving between Chihuahua City and Juarez was found to be transporting 2,117 rounds of ammunition (including 378 cal. .223; 380 cal. 7.62X39 for AK47; 300 cal. 38 Super) and three assault rifles.

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 5/24/08

(update re our report yesterday): That load of cocaine seized at Mexico City's airport ended up weighing 477 kilos. Federal police did not reveal the identity of the business firm to which the load was originally destined.

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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 5/24/08

A "narcolaunch" with 148 packages of marihuana weighing 1.4 tons was found on the north side of Tiburon Island, in the Gulf of Baja Califonia. Just last week a three hour chase by the Mex. navy yielded a load of 4.8 tons of weed in 614 packages in three launches of the same type as the one in this latest find.

On an empty lot on the west side of Nogales, Sonora: the handcuffed, bruised, strangled body of a man, also "wrapped" and taped.

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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 5/24/08

Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo, acknowledged that the federal government's war against narcotraffic affects Mexico's image abroad but that it must continue "because there is no other way of doing it." He affirmed that narcotraffic has infiltrated many aspects of the social structure but that the effort by federal forces will continue, and for this reason more violent responses by organized crime can be expected.

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El Universal (Mexico City) 5/24/08

Mexico's Attorney General said that narcotraffickers recruit U.S. citizens to buy firearms in the U.S. in order to supply their arsenal. Two weeks ago the owner of a gun shop in Phoenix AZ was detained; he had sold 200 AK47 rifles in April, which were presumably sent to Mexico into the hands of organized crime.

The A.G. pointed out that during this administration 15,700 firearms have been seized including 8,174 assault rifles as well as 1,474,000 rounds of ammunition. He added that Project Gunrunner was placed into effect in January to inhibit this traffic in firearms.

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La Jornada (Mexico City) 5/24/08

Three police officers were executed yesterday: a state police agent in Arcelia, Guerrero, a second one in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, who fell victim to AK47 gunfire, and another in Morelia, Michoacan, when the killers burst into his motel room.

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These people are NOTHING but, TERROIEST. And Bush wants to give our taxpaying money to these people of 500 million dollars for what???