Thread: Mexico Under Siege From Drug Cartels and Corrupt Law Enforce

Friday, 11 January 2008
Mexico Under Siege From Drug Cartels and Corrupt Law Enforcement

Foreign News Report

a.b.c. (Mexico City) 1/11/08
After unsuccessfully attempting to serve an arrest warrant two Mexican "AFI" (Agencia Federal de Investigaciones) agents and the informant in the car with them were overtaken by another vehicle near Acuitzio, some 50 kilometers from Morelia, capital of the state of Michoacan. All three were killed by gunfire from the second vehicle. This brings up to 31 the number of "AFI" agents killed since the present administration took office. 33 Mexican army and 5 navy personnel have also been killed.

Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 1/11/08
headline: "senile emigration due to lack of support"
The exodus of residents from Tonala, Chiapas, toward the United States is constant, but now Telesforo Martinez, a 70-some year old fisherman, has decided to join the rest of the bunch and will seek the American dream because "there's nothing to do here, fishing is no longer a profitable activity" "We have to do something for our families."
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El Bravo (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 1/11/08
headline: "Matamoros under siege"
The Matamoros population awoke crammed with (Mex.) Defense Dep't. personnel who arrived at dawn by air and land in search of the drug cartel's hired killers who confronted them in Rio Bravo and Reynosa and which resulted in the death and arrest of a number of criminals as well as in the death of "AFI" personnel and the wounding of others.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 1/11/08
1. The 350 "Preventive Federal Police" presently assigned to the state of Sinaloa were reinforced with 150 more yesterday. Another thousand are expected in the next 72 hours. Their assignment is to search for drugs, firearms and persons with outstanding arrest warrants.

2. City of Hidalgo, Texas (next to McAllen, on the Rio Grande)
SWAT team members were posted on the US-Mexico border crossing to Reynosa, Mexico, as a reaction to the outbursts of extreme violence recently occurring on the Mexican side of the border. Inter-agency contact between federal and local agencies has also taken place on the U.S. side.

3. A 22,000 square meter field of marihuana was found at El Garbanzo, Sinaloa de Leyva, Sinaloa. Over 443 thousand marihuana plants were destroyed but no arrests were made. (note : 1 sq. meter = 10.764 sq. ft.)
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/11/08
A multi box shipment of supplies received at the Master Lock facility at Nogales, Sonora, turned out to also contain 1 (metric) ton, 30 kilos of marihuana. It was supposedly to be trans-shipped to another branch facility in the U.S.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 1/11/08
The Secretary of Public Security of Baja Calif. announced that all state and local law enforcement personnel in Baja California will have to undergo testing and evaluation to filter out those linked to organized crime. The tests will include polygraphs, toxicology and psychological screening and will be repeated every six months.
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Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 1/11/08
A double blast from a shotgun killed a man yesterday in Juarez quite near one of the international crossings. This brought to 11 the total for Juarez for this year. The last three took place within the last 24 hours.
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La Hora (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 1/11/08
note: A new president is about to be inaugurated in Guatemala. In commenting about the challenges the country faces, the paper says:
"Rampant insecurity that causes 16 violent deaths daily, converting it into one of the most violent countries in the American continent."
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El Universal, & La Jornada (both major Mexico City papers), Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 1/11/08
note: articles stating that "The Border Patrol "attacked" residents of Tijuana" appeared on the front pages of two of these papers and relate to the use of pepper gas by Border Patrol Agents to repel attacks by hoodlums and thugs just east of the Port of Entry at San Ysidro, Calif.; . The "Frontera" article allows for reader commentaries to be posted on the paper's webpage and some two dozen were shown. While there were a couple of readers who blamed the rock and missile throwers in Tijuana for triggering the confrontations the great majority were extremely hostile and personally insulting against Border Patrol Agents, their mothers and all "gringos" in general. Their profanities included inflammatory remarks especially against Border Patrol Agents with hispanic surnames and one even stated they would bring Bin Laden across.
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