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Posted on 03/10/2006 4:50:32 PM PST by freepatriot32
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - An anchorman for a Mexican radio station was shot to death early Friday by gunmen waiting for him in the bushes in front of his house in this violent border city.
Ramiro Tellez Contreras, who also worked for the state emergency services and was a former policeman, was hit by two bullets in the neck and two in the chest, state police said in a news release.
Witnesses told authorities that Tellez was attacked about 5:45 a.m. when he was returning home from his job with the emergency services.
Tellez is the 46th homicide victim this year in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 330,000 across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Authorities say most of the killings stem from a bloody turf war between two drug cartels fighting over lucrative smuggling routes to the United States.
Tellez, 45, was the anchor for a general news program on national radio network EXA, covering politics and crime among other issues.
In his job with the state emergency services he directed a center that received calls for help, similar to 911 calls in the United States.
The state police did not comment on whether the killing was connected to Tellez's work.
On Thursday, gunmen in the central Mexican state of Michoacan gunned down Jaime Arturo Olvera, a former photographer for the local La Voz newspaper, state police said.
Michoacan state detective Jorge Luis Mejia said Olvera, 38, left La Voz in 2003. The newspaper said Olvera continued to do freelance photography involving the police beat for local newspapers.
Olvera was shot in the neck as he took his 5-year-old son to school, Mejia said. The son was not harmed.
Various news media watchdog groups have classified Mexico as one of the most dangerous places in the Western Hemisphere to be a journalist, largely because of the violent drug cartels operating here. Seven journalists have been killed since 2004, not including this week's deaths.
In February, armed gunmen opened fire and launched a grenade at the offices of El Manana, a daily newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, seriously injuring a reporter.
Three weeks later, President Vicente Fox named a university law professor to the new post of special prosecutor for crimes against journalists.
RE legalise drugs and there would be no more smuggling routes and homicides would dry up along with the smuggling routes
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So legal doped up Americans is the answer to Mexican Narco-Terrorists living another day?
Legalize drugs? Fool.
Have they even caught anyone yet who can be prosecuted?
I'd hate living in that country.
I agree. You're no fool. the logic is very , very simple:
No millions to be made illegally, no reason to deal drugs, no reason to kill anyone who gets in your way.
this is big business....with big money...on both sides of the fence. and the "warfare" is not much different than the shootouts in Chicago during prohibition.
Drug Gang Shootouts coming soon to a border state near you!
(duh, we already have that.)
well all the americans that want to get doped up now are getting doped up as we speak.the war on drugs hasnt stopped anyone from getting drugs thatwant them it has gotten a hell of a lot of people killed however and if drugs were legal narco terrorist would not havethe ability to be naro terrorists anymore because they would not have anything to fight over there illegal supply would be cut off and they would have no more funding for thier criminial gangs.
Not legalize RE legalize.Drugs were legal in this country from 1776 to 1937 and there werent armed narco terrorist gangs kidnapping and shooting up entire citys over who gets to sell them where.
What is foolish is doing the exact same thing over and over again and hopeing for a completly different result nixon declared war on drugs in 1972 and since that time the purity of the drugs has gone up the price of the drugs have fallen and the homicide rate has gone up 5 fold doing the same things year after year.I am proposing we try something totally different like going back to the way the country was founded it worked out very good for 161 years
Perhaps, but that is not a good thing. Downing a fifth of jack on a Friday night is a world of difference than doing crack or meth everyday. The "its just like prohibition" argument does not fly.
Disclaimer: I have not smoked marijuana. And if I did, it was before December 1989.
dont forget the all encompassing the war on drugs is for the children that has been brought up on every drug thread since freerepublic has been founded.See below for some examples of how the drug war is protecting children
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/peru-a24.shtml
Missionary plane shot down in Peru: collateral damage in US "drug war"
Following the revelation that a reconnaissance aircraft carrying CIA contract employees participated in the April 20 shoot-down of a plane carrying an American missionary family over the Peruvian Amazon region, Washington has attempted to pin the blame on the Peruvian military.
Whatever the exchange between the CIA contractors and the Peruvian Air Force officer aboard the spy plane, a Peruvian jet fighter was called in and shot into the plane, killing the woman and her baby. It then continued strafing the survivors—the wounded pilot, Ms. Bowers' husband James and their six-year-old son—as they clung to the plane's burning wreckage after it crashed into the Amazon River.
DEA Kills 14-Year-Old Girl in San Antonio, Claims Self Defense
Fourteen-year-old Ashley Villarreal of San Antonio died on February 11 after being shot in the head three days earlier by a DEA agent while driving away from her home.
Ashley Villarreal was the unintended victim of a DEA stake-out designed to catch her father, Joey Villarreal, whom the DEA suspected of involvement in cocaine sales.
The man in the vehicle, David Robles, was not the DEA's suspect.
According to Trevino, Ashley Villarreal continued to drive toward the approaching agents, at which point two DEA agents fired two shots each into the car, striking the girl in the back of the head. Trevino did not explain how a boxed-in car could continue to drive or how it became a threat to the narcs.
There are other questions and doubts about the police version of events. "The agents made it very clear to the people in the car that they were police, that they were agents," Trevino said. But David Robles told the Express News that as Ashley drove him away from the house, it appeared that they were being pursued by unknown assailants. Neither, said Robles, did the assailants identify themselves as law enforcement officers until after they shot into the trapped vehicle, fatally wounding the girl.
Robles' account was supported by "earwitnesses" who heard a crash and then shots. Manuel Martinez, who lives across the street from the shooting site, told the Express News he heard a crash followed by gunfire. "I heard them call to 'Stop! Don't move,'" he said. "I didn't hear them say they were policemen." Other witnesses cited by the Express News supported that account, raising the obvious question about what threat Ashley posed to the agents after her vehicle had already been stopped and boxed in.
DEA agent Bill Swierc has been named as the man who fired the fatal shots, and both the DEA and the San Antonio Police Department are investigating the killing. But as readers of this newsletter know, police shooters in drug cases are rarely bound over for prosecution.
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/169/modesto.shtml
Last October, DRCNet reported on the shooting death of elementary school student Alberto Sepulveda during a raid by the Modesto, California, SWAT team as it executed a federal search warrant in a methamphetamine trafficking investigation Now, after three separate investigations by Modesto police and the city attorney, Modesto police can say only that it was an accident.
Hawn, a veteran member of the Modesto SWAT team, shot and killed young Sepulveda as the boy, following Hawn's barked commands, lay prone on his bedroom floor. At a January 10th press conference called to announce the result of the department's investigations, Police Chief Roy Wasden said Hawn's Benelli shotgun could have misfired, Hawn could have accidentally squeezed the trigger, or Hawn's equipment, particularly a knife on his belt, could have accidentally caused the gun to discharge.
Wasden, however, pointed the finger at the federal law enforcement agencies -- DEA, FBI, and IRS -- at whose behest the Modesto SWAT team executed the warrant.
Across South America, children are being killed by drug war cops.
On April 17, 2003, four unarmed male teens begged for their lives after being caught in a drug sting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Police shot them all in the back of the head, execution style. At their funerals, unrepentant officers harassed and intimidated the family members of their victims, hoping to scare them from pressing charges.
One night in 1993, 50 homeless children lay huddled together on the steps of a Rio church. According to media reports, five hooded men, arriving in vehicles, fired into their sleeping mass, killing four before they could begin to flee, perhaps before they awoke. A fifth was shot in the back as he ran for cover. Three more were abducted and two of those three were executed later that night. The third was left for dead after being shot in the face. It was later discovered that three of the hooded gunmen were off-duty military police, employed by the US in the war on drugs.
In 2001, police officially killed 52 children in Rio alone. The majority of all police killings in Rio were done with a single shot from behind or to the head. To keep the numbers down, police used secret graves to bury many little bodies
Now maybe you think it is a good trade off for children to get blasted in the chest with a 12 gauge shotgun by the police or shot in the back of the head with a pistol as long as it keeps your neighbor down the street from getting high (although it fails to do that) but i really dont think decimating the Constitution and instilling fear of the police in every citizen is a good trade off. Apparently you disagree.Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course yours is just provably wrong is all.
please see post 14
we cant have a thread about this topic without getting your expert opinions on it :-)
Those are sad stories, but if I had the time I could post 10,000 stories about drug use killing innocent people.
I don't see the difference between being very heavily addicted to crack, meth or alcohol. All are very serious.
We haven't made a dent in illegal drug consumption. Perhaps if it was legalized and taxed we could FINALLY focues on treatment and prevention.
they don't want proof!
They call themselves "conservatives" except for this one issue ....then, the Puritan arrogance surfaces and does not allow any rational exploration of the facts that might result in really addressing the problem of drugs.
They don't even want to hear LEO who have worked in the field for years talk about the "reality" of the WOD.
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