Agents bust Iraqi-Sinaloa cartel drug smuggling/explosive ring; Mexico in ‘civil war’ with drug gangs
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There are graphic photographs that accompany some articles in the body of this report. It is not our intention to sensationalize. We include these photos in order to give to you, the American public, a clearer understanding of the seriousness of the situation in Mexico and Central America.

La Jornada Editorial 7/7/11

Washington: Unreliable Ally

According to the information provided yesterday by Darrel Issa, chairman of the legislative committee examining the scope of Operation Fast and Furious, by which the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) allowed delivery of thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican cartels, besides officials at different levels of the agency aforementioned, the FBI and DEA also participated in the operation. According to Issa, the illegal movement of weapons which, supposedly, was to "monitor" the supply of U.S.-origin weapons to Mexican drug trafficking organizations was carried out by means of paying smugglers to act as informants for the DEA and the FBI.

In previous weeks, Issa-led investigations established that the highest officials of the ATF, including its acting director, Kenneth Melson, received weekly reports of the development of fast and furious, allowing illegal entry to our country of about 2,000 assault rifles, fifty sniper rifles and an undetermined amount of ammunition.

It seems unlikely that the Attorney General of the neighboring country, Eric Holder, had not been aware of the participation of three police and security agencies of such importance to the U.S. government and therefore, the allegations in his favor made by President Barack Obama seem not very plausible. If Fast and Furious was a government decision, it would be extremely serious for the White House to hide it. On the other hand, if the highest echelons of U.S. public power had no idea of these illegal activities of the ATF, DEA and FBI, that ignorance would suggest an egregious lack of control in Washington's actions against drug trafficking.

With regard to Mexico, it is clear that the U.S. government can not be considered a reliable partner in fighting crime and public safety, much less as a solicitor of coordination by Mexican security forces, a function violating the Constitution, and that, nevertheless, has emerged as a result of the dissemination of diplomatic cables obtained from the State Department by WikiLeaks and released in Mexico by this newspaper.

By itself, the costs of the war declared by the Calderón government since its inception -- and continued and accentuated, according to the information available, by U.S. pressure -- cast extremely asymmetric and unjust costs for both countries: while ours has been the loss of more than 40 000 lives; the social fabric and the economy of entire regions has been destroyed; civil and military institutions show inevitable breakdown, and in many institutions there has been a true collapse of public security and the rule of law, the conflict has brought the United States a vast market in which to place its production of arms, a great quantity of money laundering which reports astronomical earnings for financial institutions in the neighboring country and, last but not least, a good excuse to multiply and deepen its interventionist actions in our country.

In this context, the fact that three police and security agencies of the neighboring country have participated in the supply of weapons to cartels which they are trying to defeat constitutes an intolerable fact that should lead to radical questioning of bilateral cooperation in the matter and a thorough review of the implications this has for Mexico. At present, the Fast and the Furious operation should lead the Mexican legislature to demand a profound reformulation of the Merida Initiative, the North American Alliance for Security and Prosperity and other bilateral instruments on matters of security and fighting crime.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/07/07/edito

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REYNOSA, MEXICO

The Red Cross has announced that it will soon have telephone service and free medical care available for repatriates being returned across the border from the U.S. The service will allow them to communicate with family within Mexico and Central America. The spokeswoman said that over 3000 are repatriated monthly just at this location. The highest number of Mexicans come from the states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Chiapas, Oaxaca and from Mexico City. -Economista (http://tinyurl.com/3toarkc)

MEXICO CITY

Police have announced there ill be 3, 950 uniformed police on duty Monday, the first day of school. Although there will be primary focus on traffic, they will also be active in community policing and school safety, supported by helicopters and 4,000 surveillance cameras.-Milenio
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Blog Del Narco (http://www.blogdelnarco.com/)

**Asterisk denotes death involving a police officer or a member of the military serving in that capacity.

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN

In late afternoon, 4 truck loads of gunmen dropped a man on a street, forced him to stand in front of a wall, and in front of dozens of people on the scene, shot him.



CIUDAD JUAREZ, CHIHUAHUA

During the day Thursday, five bodies were found in different parts of the city in the space of one hour. All had been tortured before being executed.



ACAPULCO, GUERRERO***

The headline of the report says ‘Gunmen continue to kill policemen in Acapulco. In separate attacks, three state policemen were executed, two kidnapped but one escaped. With two of the three, the gunmen also stole their handgun.





CAPULA, MICHOACÃ