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Four Americans killed in Mexico near border-police

REUTERS

9:52 a.m. May 19, 2008

ROSARITO, Mexico – Four people believed to be Americans were shot in the head and dumped in a notorious drug-smuggling area in northern Mexico near the border with California, Mexican police said Monday.
Police in the beach town of Rosarito, across the border from San Diego, said they discovered the bodies of three men and a woman Sunday in an abandoned car in a remote patch of scrubland near the Pacific coast.

“The bodies had been there for at least a week. They were spotted by local people out hunting,â€

4 'executed' bodies found in Baja California

From Harris Whitbeck
CNN

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Authorities in the Mexican state of Baja California are investigating the deaths of four people, including at least one American, whose bodies were found in a canyon over the weekend, a police spokesman said Monday.

The decomposed bodies of three men and one woman were found Sunday evening near Rosarito, about 20 miles south of the U.S. border, Baja California state police spokesman Rogelio Contreras said. Two of the bodies were found in a car with California license plates, and all the victims appear to have been "executed," he said.

A U.S. government official, who asked to remain anonymous, told CNN that one of the four victims was an American. The nationality of a second victim was unknown, while the others were either known or suspected to be non-Americans, the official said.

Northern Mexico has been the scene of a struggle between the government of President Felipe Calderon and drug gangs who have fought battles with rival traffickers, police and Mexican troops. The U.S. State Department travel alert warned visitors in April that international visitors have fallen victim to killings or kidnappings in the region.

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Four or more Americans executed in Mexico

By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter Monday May 19, 2008 9:00 AM PDT

Six gangland style murders four or more are believed Americans who were shot and killed on Sunday as they were traveling on the main highway between Tijuana and Rosarito Beach. According to Baja preventive police five victims were executed, four of them appear to be Americans three men and a women. Police say," we are withholding the names of the victims until relatives in the states can be notified". More bodies were found in a separate location at different points of Playas de Rosarito, reported the Mexican papers.

All the shootings were apparently deliberate, targeted, not just random bystanders caught up in the wave of violence that has engulfed U.S. Mexican border cities, Mexican authorities said.

Details are sketchy but the first murder occurred after two PM in the colony in the ejido Mina Primo Tapia's Fifth Municipality, where a late model vehicle was found abandoned with California plates. Inside the vehicle police discovered the body of an executed male subject, reported a spokesperson of the Rosarito police. Click on or Google: More Americans shot in Mexico

Meanwhile, at seven p.m. last night Sunday, were located the bodies of four people, three African Americans and a white woman, shot in the head.

According to a Mexican policemen at the scene said, "The discovery occurred at kilometer four of the boulevard, under the bridge known as El Morro, where they located a 2nd vehicle a green SUV Cadillac with white California, USA plates." The officer went on to say in broken English "At 20 meters' from the SUV, we found dead another man of dark complexion and a white woman, who apparently are also foreigners". Those bodies have not been identified.

Elements of ministerial personnel and expertise of the Attorney General de Justicia del Estado, working at the crime scene where they collected evidence of multiple homicides.

Last week four Americans were shot and wounded as they were leaving the Arriba Chihuahua nightclub in the ProNaF tourist zone in the violent Mexican border city of Juárez.

Some 200 people have been killed in Tijuana so far this year. In 2007, there were more than 2,500 drug killings across Mexico and just since the beginning of this year more than 3500 people have been murdered in Mexico in what authorities blame on the Mexican cartels and their criminal gangs and Para-military forces. Dangerous Mexican/U.S. Criminal Enterprises Operating Along the Mexican border

It is estimated that Mexico has 36,000 troops fighting the Mexican drug cartels and their Para-military units throughout the country. With the expected injection of more soldiers being sent to the U.S. Mexican border cities those troops will number near 40,000.

Calderon is seeking U.S. military aid under the provisions of the Merida Initiative, a multiyear $1.4 billion anti-narcotics package proposed by President Bush. Click on or Google: Merida Initiative Will It Work?

In recent months, and after Mexican president Caldron dispatched the Mexican army and federal police to many interior cities and to Mexican cities on the Mexican U.S. border the level of violence has risen substantially.

As reported earlier this month in the Laguna/El Paso Journal many Americans are wondering when the Bush administration is going to raise the travel alert to its highest level "travel warning," to forewarn American travelers to Mexico? How many American citizens are going to have to be shot, executed or kidnapped before the American government move to prevent needless deaths and issue the proper high alert of "travel warning," for Americans?

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