Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez still at it
Tuesday, 04 March 2008

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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.

El Universal (Mexico City) , La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 3/4/08

The hours long shootout which began Sunday night in Tijuana yielded some forty "heavy caliber" firearms. It finally took a Mex. army "Elite Group" and the use of tear gas to overcome the entrenched opposition and enter the house to make arrests (contradictory reports : either two or three)
Also found inside: 1,045 rounds of ammo of various calibers, 74 clips, silencers, Mex. agencies' uniforms, "AFI" (Agencia Federal de Investigaciones) jackets, vests, 6 large "PGR" (Mex. Dep't. of Justice) transfer decals, 4 smaller ones with "PGR" and "Executive Branch"
(note: contradictory reports show the address to be #605 Jicama or #545 Guanabana, both in Villa Floresta. A week before, a man was liberated in front of the same house; his ransom demand had been one million dollars.)
Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 3/4/08

(A just-posted and apparently preliminary report follows) "At least" five lifeless bodies were found this morning in Tijuana on an empty lot on "2000 Boulevard", on the way to Rosarito. All showed signs of violence.
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 3/4/08

Yesterday evening three men were sitting in a car (with no plates) at a parking lot in a busy shopping center in Juarez. Then three more cars pulled up and their occupants opened fire on the men in the parked car, killing all three. Officials at the scene later picked up "more than" one hundred shells from AK-47 rifles.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 3/4/08

The "narco-grave" count in Ciudad Juarez keeps going up. Two more human remains have been found at the Pedregal St. address; this brings the total to fourteen since the first cadavers were found at the other house, on Cocoyoc St., on Feb. 21st.
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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 3/4/08

Michoacan's new governor, Leonel Godoy, said that his administration's critical concern areas are public insecurity caused by organized crime, migration, poverty, education, employment, the natural environment and the cultural environment..
He termed Michoacan as a clear example of those problems at the national level.
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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/4/08

Two Mex. "AFI" agents have been arrested and charged with being part of a crime cartel involved in weapons and drug operations in the Mexico City area.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 3/4/08

The head of the Colombian Police, General Oscar Naranjo, said that a report by Raul Reyes dated 2/18/08 details the export of drugs to Mexico.
(note: Reyes was recently killed in an attack by Colombian forces. He was the 2nd in command of "FARC" - "Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia"- the oldest and strongest (16,000 armed men said to compose its ranks) insurgent group south of the border. His death and the related issues of hostages kidnapped by FARC have triggered the present diplomatic crisis in South America.)
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 3/4/08

A Honduran vice-consul in New York City hadn't come to work for a year but was considered "untouchable" because of her political connections with the leader of the Liberal Party of Honduras. Now, all Honduran diplomatic mission personnel will have to record their arrival and departure times daily.
And all have been forbidden to charge more than the specified amounts for passport and other document issuance.
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