Posted on 09/13/2010 8:29:22 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
A phone tip around midnight led authorities to a dead body in a car in a shopping center parking lot, the federal Public Safety Department said in a statement. In a second car, police found the bomb.
Agents deactivated the device and removed most of the explosive material to analyze it before safely detonating the vehicle, the department said. There were no injuries.
Juarez is the same city where drug traffickers staged the first successful car bombing in Mexico, killing three people in July.
There have been three other vehicle explosions in recent weeks in Ciudad Victoria, capital of the border state of Tamaulipas.
Ciudad, across from El Paso, Texas, has been one of the cities most affected by Mexico's drug violence. More than 2,100 people have been murdered there so far this year — putting it on pace to surpass its previous high of 2,700, set last year.
Across the country, more than 28,000 people have been killed since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against the cartels soon after taking office.
In the central state of Morelos, police discovered nine bodies in clandestine graves Saturday in the same area where four more were recently found.
The Public Safety Department said in a separate statement that all 13 victims were believed to have been killed on the orders of U.S.-born Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal, one of the alleged kingpins fighting for control of Morelos.
Valdez was captured Aug. 30 by federal police.
Late Saturday, federal authorities announced they had arrested two Colombian brothers who they alleged have ties to Valdez and belong to a group responsible for buying cocaine in Colombia and smuggling it to the United States.
The men were identified as Dario Emilio Valencia and Victor Espinosa Valencia. The latter was said to own the ranch on the outskirts of Mexico City where Valdez allegedly hid out before his arrest.
The Public Safety Department said both men are named in a U.S. warrant issued in 2004 in Florida.
This is a relatively new menace for Mexico.
The drug cartels have become as violent as the muslims, there are videos of bodies totally cut up, lying all over the ground.
I'm a few hours from the border and my daughter is 30 minutes from it and the gangs and drugs have already infiltrated way up into Texas now.
Sooner or later our Military is going to have to be involved.
I know you know all of this, I am just meandering with my thoughts because it is such a bad situation.
I didn’t know Mexico had their own version of EOD.
Nonetheless a welcome development.
Mexico blames explosion in border city on car bomb
Friday, July 16, 2010
An explosion that killed at least three people in Ciudad Juarez was a car bomb set off by a cell phone, a Mexican military spokesman said on Friday. The blast tore through an intersection in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, late on Thursday in what the security ministry said was retaliation for the arrest of a drug cartel boss. "There were 10 kilos (22-pounds) of explosives, activated from a distance by a cell phone," Enrique Torres, spokesman for the army in Ciudad Juarez, told Reuters.
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Mexico Confirms Car Had Explosive Device Aboard (Second Cartel Car Bomb)
Friday, August 06, 2010
MEXICO CITY – Investigators said Friday there was an explosive device aboard a car that blew up outside police headquarters in the border state of Tamaulipas, the second car-bomb attack against law enforcement in less than a month.
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Car bomb explodes outside Mexico TV station, broadcaster says
Friday, August 27, 2010
(CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Friday outside the television studios of CNN affiliate Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state in northeastern Mexico, the station said in a broadcast.
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Narco Insurgents Assassinate Mexican Detective
Saturday, August 28
Meanwhile, in the Tamaulipas state's capital city of Victoria, two car bombs were detonated outside the Televisa office as reported by Ken Ellingwood for The Los Angeles Times. The drug cartels increasingly have been seeking to intimidate the media from reporting on their violence by threatening, kidnapping and murdering print journalists and television reporters.
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Mexican Police Neutralize Car Bomb In Juarez
Monday, September 13, 2010
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
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