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Another arrest in ICE Agent’s murder; Honduras takes action on crime
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Blog del Narco (Mexico) 2/28/2011

Another arrest in ICE Agent’s murder

The Federal Police have captured Luis Miguel Rojo Ocejo, better known as El Oso Rojo (means Red Bear), the financial manager of Los Zetas. Luis Miguel, 27 years old is also connected to Sergio Mora, alias Toto, captured over the weekend. not hiding, and in fact, his photo often appeared in social magazines and newspapers.


http://tinyurl.com/4n52uh3
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El Universal (Mexico) 2/28/2011

The risk of an armed Mexico

The national survey that was published today in EL UNIVERSAL regarding the possession of firearms is revealing. It seems that the citizenry struggles between its conviction of non violence and its need to defend its own self from the criminals, whom the authorities have not been able to restrain despite enormous social discontent.

On one side, a third of Mexicans say they are ready to own a pistol to defend their families from crime, but at the same time, two of every three consider that the country would be less safe if many people owned arms.

Contrary to what one would think, after years of being immersed in a spiral of criminal violence, the people still do not aspire to own a rifle or a pistol to live in peace. Nearly 75% have no arms in their homes and have little interest in acquiring any.

The previous data contrast with what one observes in the United States where 90 million people possess around 200 million arms of various calibers. Nearly one of every three US citizens have on average more than one firearm in their homes, an enormous number which explains at the same time the frequency with which each year massacres by unbalanced individuals occur in that country in schools, business centers, offices, and public squares.

Unlike the neighbor to the north, in Mexico tragedies also happen, but not through the initiative of common people who for personal motivation suddenly decide to assassinate their fellow citizens, but rather through the actions of organized crime and common criminals who have armed themselves with an arsenal, thanks to the ease with which arms are bought clandestinely, mainly smuggled in from the United States.

It took many decades for Mexico to do away with the violence cultivated from the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth when, in the country, blows to the State were common, the banditry and lawless executions. Through institutions of economic establishment and education the barbarity diminished. From there came the encouraging numbers of the majority of Mexicans who still reject having a firearm in their homes.

But Mexico could regress. At least since the mid '90s kidnappings, extortions, robberies have increased. Confidence in institutions has decreased, lynchings in towns fed up with insecurity and the citizens who decide to take on criminals with bullets before calling the police.

Hopefully, the signers of the National Agreement for Security in 2008 and co-authors of the penal reform that same year do not forget the urgency of the commitments they made. The country runs the risk of returning to believe in violence as the only means to obtain justice.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/51853.html

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February 25, 2011

Lesson for the United States

Mexico and United States are working in the struggle against organized crime; nevertheless, there still exists inequalities between the the efforts carried out on one side of the border and the other. The assassination of the US agent Jaime Zapata reveals once again these asymmetries.

In response to the crime, the government of that country yesterday carried out large raids that resulted in the arrest of hundreds of people, allegedly narcotraffickers. It was a commendable operation but we only see one or two of them over there in a year. Perhaps this is all the intelligence apparatus and the US police effort can give? Spectacular as the operation might have been, it only affected a fragment of the large drug distribution web existing in that territory.

If yesterday was the beginning of a serious combat against organized crime within their territory, it is a promising sign. Mexico leads at least five years in this direction and many more deaths in the attempt to stop a problem that has its origin in that country. Nevertheless, the raids, despite being necessary, are insufficient. Much more is still expected of the United States in regards to the consumption of drugs and in restrictions in the sale of arms that supply the cartels.

Many years will pass before the US addictions go down, supposing that the health policies in that area are effective. In the matter of arms, on the other hand, the government of Barack Obama can do more in the short term. The numbers are clear: given that 90% of the arms in the possession of the Mexican cartels come from the United States, the possibility is very high that Jaime Zapata was assassinated by one of them. If that is so, it would be a sad lesson for the United States.

For its part, Mexico continues working to improve, for example, its legal framework. Proof of that effort is the Anti-kidnapping Law approved yesterday in the Senate. It is fitting to recall that kidnapping is one of the alternative sources of financing for which the mafias have turned to in face of the increasing difficulty of drug trafficking.

Hopefully, in the next meeting between presidents Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama. to take place March 3, a friendly but firm dialogue will take place to pressure the United States to accelerate its actions and thus connect them with the efforts taken by Mexico.

The tragic homicide of Zapata should teach the people of the United States that to demolish consumption and particularly the traffic of arms is not an act of condescension towards Mexico but rather an unavoidable step to protect the citizens of both countries.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/51822.html
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Shorts:
-Mexico-new law increases penalties for kidnapping effective 2/28.
(http://tinyurl.com/45ptpj9)

-Honduran President taking action to reduce crime. (http://tinyurl.com/45ptpj9)
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Blog del Narco: http://www.blogdelnarco.com

-Hermosillo, Sonora: Two state police officers ambushed and killed.


-Mazatlan, Sinaloa: Seven tortured/executed men hung from bridge; another hung from pedestrian bridge; 4 others found on another bridge; 2 more from another. Total of 14.


-Uruapan, Michoacan: Victor Manuel Torres Garcia, or El PapirrÃ*n, captured; 1 of 3 leaders of the Resistance cartel.

-Guadalupe, Nuevo León: Four 4 teens shot in park, 1 died.


-Tepic, Nayarit: Shootout between military and cartel; 4 gunmen killed.


-Murguia, Zacatecas: Cartel gunmen tell mayor to seize all weapons from residents, who refuse; gunfight kills 2, and mayor kidnapped.

-Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua: Four executed in car, include woman and ten year old boy.
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State Dept Traces Narco Grenades -U.S. sold them to El Salvador in early 1990’s
http://tinyurl.com/4kpdj4v
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Sinaloa Cartel Operatives Arrested in Costa Rica

http://tinyurl.com/46k885y
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Mexico's Crime Fight through Rose-colored Glasses
http://www.mexidata.info/id2953.html
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Domestic News - United States

As kidnappings for ransom surge in Mexico, victims' families and
employers turn to private U.S. firms instead of law enforcement
http://tinyurl.com/45jsh38
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ICE dive unit in Miami targets drug smuggler ships
http://tinyurl.com/68kp7ku
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Zapata payback? U.S. cops smash Mexican drug operation - Jaime Zapata is the ICE Agent shot and killed in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/4c3jkh9
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Border Patrol cops more than 5 tons of drugs over weekend-Texas
http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/a ... rande.html
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Federal immigration program is applied inconsistently in region-D.C.
http://tinyurl.com/4p8q4zv
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Federal charges filed against eleven arrested after discovery and
seizure of marijuana, cocaine, firearms, grenades and ammunition
http://tinyurl.com/469kevw
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Seven Reasons Mexico is the Biggest Threat to American Securityhttp://tinyurl.com/4gvuo38
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7 Reasons Mexico is the Biggest Threat to American Security

Conservatives and liberals alike look to far flung shores for the biggest threats to our national security with good reason. No enemy we face is more dedicated to our destruction than Islamic Expansionists and resurgent communism worldwide has again begun to wage war against American world dominance. But these threats, as real as they are, need to gain entrance to our country to truly achieve their ends and it is through the collapsing Mexican state that they will find purchase. As they do, other threats emanating from within the hollow state of Mexico are even now exacting a heavy toll in American blood, land and economic health.

Mexico is a problem that has been left to fester on our border for decades and the Left has exploited this war zone to pursue their corrupt anti-American agenda. Right now there is no battlefront more important to the continued existence of America than the southern border. Here are just seven reasons why:


7. Narco-Cults Have Spread from Mexico into Most Major Metropolitan Areas

Most famous and brutal among these is the now infamous cult of the Holy Death or Saint Death, better known as Santa Muerte. I’ve long argued a connection between the Santa Muerte Cult and the Matamoros murders committed by the coven of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, but Santa Muerte cultists are thought to be involved in many more murders both in the U.S. and in Mexico. In 1989 when police busted Constanzo’s coven, they had committed 14 confirmed ritual murders.

That same year there were 74 confirmed ritual murders in Mexico city.

Santa Muerte worship has exploded along the border states but has also made inroads into any area where there is a large illegal population or drug activity, traveling as far north as Chicago and New York. Because the cult has no central theology, the worship of Saint Death is transmitted by professional “practitionersâ€

6. Mexican Corruption is Creeping Across the Border into Our Law Enforcement Agencies


Mexican corruption is so pervasive and endemic in Mexico that it has now infected American law enforcement agencies. Nowhere is this more blatant than the Project Gunwalker scandal involving the BATF and an attempted cover-up by the Department of Justice. While this story was breaking on the blogs months ago, it is just making the news now that the leftist media can no longer protect their ideological brethren in government.

In an effort to “padâ€

5. The Mexican Military is Untrustworthy and Out of Control


The Mexican military President Calderon relies on to fight his war on the cartels is known to receive upwards of $500,000,000 a year in bribes and payoffs from various criminal organizations. A Wikileaks document shows that the State Department and our military are both “awareâ€

4. Hezbollah Has an Operational Foothold in Mexico

It has long been known that Hezbollah operates in many Latin American countries, especially those with Marxist governments sympathetic to the anti-Western views of radical Islamism. A recent Fox News report by Adam Housley shows that our fears of Hezbollah gaining a foothold in Mexico have been realized:

My military and Department of Homeland Security contacts are insistent…it’s not if Hezbollah operatives have been smuggled into the U.S….but how many? They note that drug tunnels are becoming much more sophisticated and striking similar as tunnels being used by terror organizations to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip. My contacts also say they have real concern that bombing techniques used in the Middle East to promote terror are now also being used inside Mexico, as the cartels war with each other and anyone in their way.

This comes as Mexican authorities busted a senior Hezbollah operative who employed Mexicans nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, according to multiple reports. The man’s name is Jameel Nasr and he was arrested after a Mexican surveillance operation revealed that he traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders and he also spent several months in Venezuela working with the terror group and Hugo Chavez’s people. American security contacts say the Mexican operation was impressive and they are seeing some increased pressure on the cartels from Mexican authorities and thus…their friends.

Meantime, over this past weekend President Calderon of Mexico sent a significant number of troops to the border regions and while they are there to help battle the cartels, they have also been sent to deal with the growing connection to Hezbollah. As one contact told me, “Mexico knows the seriousness of a cartel connection with Hezbollah and the threat to their national security.â€

3. The Cartels are Not Drug Gangs

The Left (and many libertarians) frames the chaos in Mexico as a “drug warâ€

2. There’s a Literal War on the Border

When a Pinal County sheriff’s deputy was ambushed by an armed group of illegal aliens, America should have been put on notice about how bad the situation was near the border. But that story didn’t wake people up.

Neither did the new stories of American families being driven from their homes by cartel operations or the Mexican Mafia publicly putting a hit out on Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Babeu just recently told a reporter he expected his department to be in “armed conflictâ€

1) Mexico is a Hollow State

John Robb, author of A Brave New War, defines a hollow state as thus:

The modern nation-state is in a secular decline, made inevitable by the rise of a global market system. Even developed nations, like the US, are not immune to this process. The decline is at first gradual and then accelerates until it reaches a final end-point: a hollow state. The hollow state has the trappings of a modern nation-state (“leadersâ€

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