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06-01-2008, 12:48 AM #1
Timeline: A look at violent incidents throughout the area in
Timeline: A look at violent incidents throughout the area in '08
El Paso Times Staff
Article Launched: 05/31/2008 10:20:53 PM MDT
Mexican federal police patrolled the streets of Juárez last week. The violence that officials say is related to drugs has hit a crescendo in recent weeks and has drawn attention from U.S. officials. (Adriane Jaeckle / El Paso Times)
January 2008
Jan. 10: U.S. Attorney's Office announces indictment against Barrio Azteca gang members and says the El Paso-based gang has alliance with Juárez drug cartel.
Jan. 16: Former Juárez director of police Saulo Reyes Gamboa arrested in El Paso on drug-smuggling charges.
Jan. 19: Six bodies of alleged members of a Juárez drug cartel are found buried in the backyard of a Juárez home.
Jan. 20: Juárez police Lt. Julian Chairez Hernandez is fatally shot.
Jan. 21: Juárez police Cmdr. Francisco Ledezma Salazar is gunned down outside his home.
Jan. 22: About 50 Mexican soldiers sent to Juárez to patrol streets.
Jan. 23: Juárez Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency is brought to Thomason Hospital for treatment after surviving a mob-style gunfight. Hospital is put on "lockdown" and guarded by El Paso police.
Jan. 25: More Mexican federal soldiers arrive in Juárez.
Jan. 26-27: Five people, including an 8-year-old girl, are killed in separate incidents on Juárez streets, unleashing a wave of violence.
Jan. 31: Juárez businessmen Fernando Macias Gonzalez and Jesus Duran Uranga are killed in separate incidents.
February
Feb. 1: Thomason Hospital remains on lockdown.
Feb. 2: Three more bodies found on Juárez streets.
Feb. 5: Juárez police Cmdr. Luis Alfonso Rivera Villa and investigative agent Jesus Manuel Garcia Rodriguez are shot to death inside a car.
Feb. 8: Juárez police put on alert after a police officer is shot at.
Feb. 9: 150 additional Mexican soldiers arrive in Juárez.
Feb. 14: Thomason Hospital lockdown lifted.
Feb. 16: 21 alleged Juárez drug cartel members, including five U.S. citizens, are arrested by Juárez police.
Feb. 18: Mexican man wounded in a Palomas street ambush is taken to Thomason. Hospital security remains at normal level.
Feb. 17: Bloody uniform of missing Juárez police Officer Juan Hernández Sánchez is found.
Feb. 20: Juárez police warn of fake military-style checkpoints possibly set up by drug cartels.
Feb. 20: Soldiers detained eight men in Juárez accused of being hit men for theTijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, or a group known as La LÃ*nea.
Feb. 22: Three more men found slain.
Feb. 23: Another mass grave with unknown number of bodies is found in a Juárez backyard.
Feb. 24: An El Paso Times poll finds 62 percent of El Paso voters believed Juárez violence is spilling over into El Paso; 54 percent say Juárez violence is having an impact on El Paso business; 46 percent of El Paso voters said the U.S. should increase its involvement in Mexico's drug war.
Feb. 27: Juárez police Officer Jose Cruz Cisneros found slain in his car.
March
March 2: Mexican police find another mass grave.
March 3: Juárez police report seven killings in three days.
March 15: Three men shot and killed while riding in a car with Tennessee license plates.
March 17: One man was killed and another wounded in a shooting while they rode in a Jeep Cherokee with Texas plates near a Juárez retail center.
March 19: Members of the Texas House of Representatives' Mexican American Legislative Caucus Border Security Task Force meet in El Paso to address border security concerns.
March 20: Juárez police Officer Oscar Campoya Saucedo gunned down on his way home.
March 19: Three charged in El Paso for attempting to smuggle guns into Juárez.
March 21: Eight more homicides are recorded in Juárez.
March 25: Violent weekend results in 15 homicides, including death of Juárez police Officer Juan Manuel Flores Ruiz.
March 27: More than 2,000 soldiers arrive in Juárez.
April
April 1: Juárez police in masks protest presence of federal police and soldiers.
April 3: Drug cartels purchase "help wanted" ads in Juárez newspapers.
April 4: A senior U.S. counter-drug official in El Paso confirms that the Zetas, a ruthless group of assassins made up of Mexican army deserters, are involved in the war between drug cartels for control of Juárez.
April 4: Mexican army detains 22 employees of the Chihuahua state attorney general's office and the state public safety office as part of operations targeting organized crime.
April 9: Two men found shot to death next to a pickup with Texas plates at a ranch about nine miles from the village of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos across the border from Tornillo.
April 14: U.S. State Department updates its travel alert for Mexico to warn tourists of ongoing border violence, including the current drug war in Juárez.
April 8: Villa Ahumada police commander and seven other men arrested in a daring helicopter raid at a narco-trafficker's funeral at the town's cemetery, about 70 miles south of Juárez.
April 15: FBI confirms that reputed Barrio Azteca gang leader David "Chicho" Meraz found dead last month in Juárez.
April 16: Federal Mexican officers start screening Juárez police officers, looking for evidence of corruption.
May
May 5: A third man wounded in Juárez is brought to Thomason Hospital.
May 6: Off-duty Juárez police Officer Mario Saul Peña Lopez is shot in his car.
May 8: Four El Pasoans shot and wounded outside a Juárez nightclub.
May 9: Gunbattle on the Avenida Juárez tourist strip left two taxi drivers dead and wounded five others, including three bicycle police officers.
May 10: Juárez police director Juan Antonio Roman Garcia shot and killed near his home.
May 11: Five shot and killed in Palomas, across the border from Columbus, N.M.
May 12: Military presence in Juárez expands to 3,000; seven more killed.
May 16: Juárez's top public safety official, Guillermo Prieto Quintana, quits.
May 17: More soldiers arrive; three more killed.
May 18: Prominent nightclub owner Willy Moya is killed outside a bar in the ProNaF area.
May 19: Roberto Orduña Cruz, a retired Mexican army major, is named Juárez public safety director.
May 20: Police report four more killings, including a 14-year-old boy.
May 22: Mass e-mail warns of deadliest weekend yet in Juárez.
May 22: Department of Homeland Security official speaking at a border conference in Austin says U.S. and Mexico should work together to fight drug war.
May 26: Deadly weekend results in 22 deaths.
May 30: Fifteen more bodies turn up in a 48-hour period.
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06-01-2008, 01:13 AM #2
They are doing the same here, but you don't hear about it.
I don't think anything will wake up America .
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