Mexico endures another night of drug violence

Mexico violence erupts around drug trade

Gross. What vicious animals these people are. Legalize pot & a lot of these people would be out of business. Burn the poppy fields of Afghanistan & the coke dealers would dry up.

If pot was legalized and dried up then they would be compelled to go to the next thing,such as more poppy plants in order to maintain the wealth and power.It all happens in the mind,not the fields.

Curb the demand

USA is the largest consumer of all kinds of drugs...somehow Americans have the biggest weakness to get high whether drugs or even freon !!!!!!!!!!!!!

As long as there is lucrative business due to high demand, suppliers will supply the goods !!

It’s that simple !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Corrupt cops kill and kidnap in Mexico...
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Mexican police implicated in killings, kidnappings
16 Mar.`10 � Scores of police officers � including the entire department of one town � have been detained in Mexican probes of killings and kidnappings.

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Mayor Alfredo Osorio of the Gulf coast town Tierra Blanca said Monday that about 90 city policemen were being held for questioning about the kidnapping of undocumented Central American migrants. The officers â�� the town’s entire local force â�� were detained by state police and soldiers and taken to the capital of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz for questioning. No formal charges had been filed.

The police allegedly kidnapped the migrants to shake them down for money. Central Americans frequently are robbed or abused by police or by drug gangs as they cross Mexico to seek work in the United States. In the central State of Mexico, prosecutors announced the arrest of two policemen and two former officers on charges they participated in 11 killings related to robberies. The officers, ex-officers and a fifth man posing as a police office, had been assigned to two towns on the outskirts of Mexico City. They were detained over the weekend.

Mexico State Attorney General Alberto Baz Baz said the men allegedly preyed on businessmen and professionals, snatching them off the streets to steal debit cards and other possessions, and then often killing them. Another ex-officer is being sought in the case. Some of the crimes were allegedly committed while the officers were on duty. The suspects face possible prison sentences of up to 70 years. They had no attorney of record.

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Granny says bring her `round here, see if she can do anything `bout dem drug dealers 2 doors down...
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Will the Hillary Clinton Mexico visit bring a drug war shift?
March 23, 2010: A high-level US delegation meets with Mexican officials today to discuss bilateral strategies for tackling the drug war. But will there be any changes during the Hillary Clinton Mexico visit?

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The visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Mexico City today to discuss US aid for Mexico to fight organized crime underscores a sense of urgency in Washington after an American couple was slaughtered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez earlier this month. But many hope the high-level delegation, which includes Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, also marks a new strategy by both countries to stem violence that appears to be closer than ever to US soil and that has propelled swaths of Mexico into a state of crisis.

�It�s a way of really showing the US commitment to helping and enabling this fight, but it�s also to transmit serious concerns about the limitations of the approach,� says David Mena Alemán, director of international studies at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, of Mexican President Felipe Calderón�s dispatching of more than 45,000 military and federal police across the country to fight organized crime. �The consequences are getting way out of hand.�

Losing faith

The tipping point in Mexico came in January after a massacre in Ciudad Juarez, mostly of teens with no ties to organized crime. Residents demanded an end to the military-led strategy, which has been both heralded and condemned, as 18,000 have lost their lives since it was spearheaded in December 2006. For the first time, more Mexicans surveyed nationwide by the ISA polling firm said they disapprove of the work that Mr. Calderón is doing: 53 percent disapprove, while 45 percent approve, according to the survey results.

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Ciudad Juárez mobilizes to protect children from Mexico drug war
March 23, 2010 - While Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico City today to discuss ways to fight the Mexico drug war, parents and youths in Ciudad Juárez are combating the chaos with social tools.

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Adrian Cadena finds his solace in football � ever since his son, who dreamed of playing the American sport in college, was among 15 gunned down in January while attending a birthday party in Ciudad Juárez. In a nation that has become almost inured to drug-war violence, this tragedy sparked outrage throughout Mexico. But the grieving father has put his energy into volunteering for the local team, cleaning parks, and raising money through barbecues and carwashes � both to heal himself and to try to support other parents and children in this violent industrial city. �There are thousands of boys left behind. We have to focus on the survivors,� says Mr. Cadena, a car mechanic and father of three other teenagers.

Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is arguably the city worst hit by Mexico�s drug war. In 2009, one-third of all drug-related murders in Mexico happened here as rival drug gangs fought for control of the narcotics trade. The streets are dotted with thousands of Mexican soldiers and mask-wearing federal police who patrol in pickup trucks. They were sent here in the past two years to try to curb the violence.


Amid this battleground, parents (like Cadena), teachers, nongovernmental organizations, and � increasingly � government officials are seeking ways to help the city�s children deal with the fear, stress, and sense of helplessness. �It is sad; they are dealing with things that they are really too young to deal with,� says Ramon Ruiz, an elementary school teacher at the Juárez and Reforma public school in Ciudad Juárez.

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Mebbe dey’s all wantin' to go see Hillary whilst she’s down there...
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40 inmates escape in Mexican border town
25 Mar.`10 � Law enforcement officials say 40 inmates have escaped from a jail in the northern Mexican city of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

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Authorities said in a news release that the prisoners were mostly charged under federal law but were being held at the state institution. Details of Thursday’s escape were not immediately available.

State leaders in Mexico have complained in the past that they do not have facilities secure enough to accommodate more serious, federally charged prisoners.

Last year guards stood by as more than 50 prisoners walked out of another jail in northern Mexico.

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Obama Adds 54 Alleged Mexican Drug Traffickers to Kingpin List
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - The Obama administration named 54 alleged Mexican drug cartel lieutenants and enforcers as drug kingpins Wednesday under a law that allows the U.S. government to freeze their bank accounts and penalize their business associates.

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The action, carried out as part of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, involves members of the Gulf Cartel and a gang of former Gulf cartel hit men known as the Zetas, Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control, said Wednesday in Washington. Dozens of cartel-related businesses and individuals have already been named, allowing authorities over the past decade to seize $13 million and freeze $3 million in drug-related assets.

The administration’s announcement came the day after top U.S. Cabinet officials led by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Mexico to underscore their shared responsibility for the drug-related violence that has killed 17,900 people since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006.

In Ciudad Juarez, the country’s most violent city, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, at least seven people were killed in three shooting attacks. Two sisters, ages 17 and 19, were slain by gunmen who barged into their home Wednesday afternoon, said state police spokesman Arturo Sandoval. Moments later, gunmen killed the manager of a factory as he drove toward a military checkpoint, Sandoval said.

The killings followed the murders of four young men who were remodeling a storefront they had rented to a funeral agency when assailants sprayed them with gunfire. The victims included two brothers, a cousin and a friend. Sandoval said the mother of one of the victims said the youths, aged 17 to 23, had previously received threats from a criminal gang demanding they pay protection money if they wanted to operate the storefront. According to her, the victims refused to pay. Mexico’s drug gangs often branch out into kidnapping and extortion.

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Mexico’s narco war creepin' up this way...
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Texas Town on High Alert as Mexican Town Across Border Braces for Cartel Gun Battle
March 31, 2010 - At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives.

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Residents of a small Mexican border town under siege by at least one of the country�s most notorious drug cartels are fleeing into a tiny Texas community, which is on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should a street battle break out with another cartel � or if gunmen begin carrying out a threat to start killing the town�s children.

At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives. Fort Hancock officials tell FoxNews.com that they consider the situation serious.

�We just got word that the cartel has threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless parents paid $5000 pesos,� said Mike Doyle, chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County. And that time might come sooner than later. Schools Superintendent Jose Franco said word has spread that everyone in the Mexican town must stay indoors while members of rival cartels prepare for a shootout.

�I may not be working in school that day. I may be working as a medic,� said Franco, who moonlights as an ambulance paramedic. Franco also confirmed the ransom demand for students across the border, adding that some of his students had already paid the money to be left alone.

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Now drug cartels goin' after Mexican authorities like dey did in Columbia...
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Mexico Says Cartels Turning Attacks On Authorities
Apr. 26, 2010 - Mexico Says Drug Cartels Are Turning To Direct Attacks On Authorities, Calls For More US Aid

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Mexico’s drug cartels have changed tactics and are turning more attacks on authorities, rather than focusing their fire on rivals gangs, the country’s top security official said Sunday. Interior Secretary Fernandez Gomez-Mont said at a news conference that two back-to-back, bloody ambushes of government convoys - both blamed on cartels - represent a new tactic. “In the last few weeks the dynamics of the violence have changed. The criminals have decided to directly confront and attack the authorities," Gomez-Mont said. “They are trying to direct their fire power at what they fear most at this moment, which is the authorities," he said.

Officials here have long said that more than 90 percent of the death toll in Mexico’s wave of drug violence - which has claimed more than 22,700 lives since a government crackdown began in December 2006 - are victims of disputes between rival gangs. Mexican drug gangs have been known to target security officials. The nation’s acting federal police chief was shot dead in May 2008 in an attack attributed to drug traffickers lashing back at President Felipe Calderon’s offensive against organized crime. But such high-profile attacks were rare in comparison to inter-gang warfare. But after the large-scale attacks on officials Friday and Saturday, “casualties among the authorities are beginning to increase in this battle," Gomez-Mont said.

On Saturday, gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a convoy carrying the top security official of the western state of Michoacan, in what appeared to be a carefully planned ambush. The official survived with non-life-threatening wounds - she was traveling in a bullet-resistant SUV - but two of her bodyguards and two passers-by were killed. Of the other nine people wounded, most were bystanders, including two girls ages 2 and 12. Gomez-Mont said the attack was carried out by a group known as “The Resistance," an outgrowth of the Michoacan-based La Familia drug cartel.

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