Saturday, 12 January 2008
Assassinations in Mexico Linked To Organized Crime Averaged 232.8 Violent Murders Per Month!

Foreign News Report


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.


Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 1/12/08

A new "Minister of Justice" took over in the state of Chiapas two months ago and a general took over as head of the "Ministerial Police." The result so far is that in the last two months 75 ministerial police officers have resigned mainly due to the recent arrest of one of their "commanders" who protected criminal groups. Another "commander" is a fugitive and others are under investigation.
Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 1/12/08

Since the new local "Secretary of Public Security" took over in Tijuana 40 days ago, 20 Tijuana police officers have been dismissed and 47 others have quit on their own.
(note: The city of Tijuana & the state of Chiapas are in opposite corners of Mexico)
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Diario Xalapa (Xalapa, Veracruz; part of O.E.M., a nationwide newspaper chain) 1/12/08

Last year 19,200,000 Mexicans, the equivalent of 45% of the country's "economically active population" worked in the informal labor market (such as street vendors) and operated completely outside the organized industrial and business employment structure.
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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 1/12/08

Short takes from the paper's section on Guerrero state news:
- Shootout between police and a group that tried to kidnap a silversmith in Taxco
- Man who was kidnapped in a pool hall is executed in Coyuca
- The priest at Copanatoyoc is shot dead at a bar in Tlapa
- Body of murdered farm worker and other human remains found in Petatlan
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El Universal (Mexico City) 1/12/08

(note: the news item about the "tear gas" (their wording) being used by the Border Patrol in the Tijuana area has now made it to a quite large number of Mexican newspapers)

headline: "The "SRE" (Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores; the Mex. Dep't. of State) protests concerning the attack by the "migra" (their wording) in Tijuana"
The Chancery announced that it will make "an in-depth study" of the events which affected Mexican residents of the border as well as their homes "to take the pertinent measures."
The spokeswoman of the so-called migra, Wendi Lee (sic) explained that the American agents only responded to aggressions "by a group of people" who fled to Mexican territory. She said "We will continue to use necessary tactics in legitimate self defense."
The (Mex.) National Human Rights Commission initiated an investigation concerning this aggression.
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Expreso (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/12/08

Jorge Borquez Garcia, a "1st Officer" of the "Federal Preventive Police" was shot and killed by gunfire from occupants of a vehicle as he drove his own car a short distance from the police headquarters in Sonora.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 1/12/08

During the first year of Mexico's President Calderon's administration there were 2,794 executions linked to organized crime, meaning 232.8 violent murders per month and 7.65 per day. This, according to an analysis by Mexico's Federal Preventive Police. The document in which these figures appear is titled "Execution study, first year in government" and points out that Nov. 2007 totals were 23% below the Nov. 2006 figures.
The document defines the characteristics which a murder must have in order to be counted as part of this tally.
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Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 1/12/08

Murder victim number 12 for this month in Juarez was found on the street behind a hospital; his face was wrapped with duct tape and his head was inside a plastic bag. "The victim evidenced traumatic cerebral hemorrhage and multiple blows as well as blood stains to the face, neck, thorax and legs" according to the autopsy report.
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Notiver (Veracruz, Veracruz) 1/12/08

Yesterday at dawn a vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint near Ciudad Mendoza, Veracruz; in the ensuing chase & armed confrontation with its occupants Marcos Hernandez Lopez, a local police "commander" was shot and killed. The three persons in the vehicle which failed to stop were arrested.
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Tamaulipas en linea (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 1/12/08

The main frontiers of the state of Tamaulipas: Matamoros, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Miguel Aleman and Nuevo Laredo are under military control.
Mexican army Brigadier Gen. Rigoberto Garcia Cortez confirmed the presence of the military and other personnel who have surrounded the urban areas. More police and military have been arriving after the firearm confrontations this week between police, military and criminal group members in Rio Bravo and Reynosa.
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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 1/12/08

Ecuadorean "Migration Police" "frustrated" the travel of 64 persons from various points in Ecuador who sought to reach Esmeraldas and then travel illegally to the United States. Eleven of the group were minors. The two men who were transporting them were arrested.
(note: Esmeraldas is a port city on the north coast of Ecuador)

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