Posted on 10/23/2009 8:48:09 AM PDT by AuntB
Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 10/22/09
Mexican senator defends migrants
Mexican Senator Manuel Velasco proposed that the country’s new head of the National Human Rights Commission ally himself with international agencies to “strive for the legal recognition of our fellow citizens who work in the United States.” He said that supporting undocumented Mexicans also granted confidence and calm to millions of families in Mexico in that their relatives in the United States have allies to protect them.
“We believe that the issue of human rights……must also expand its activities beyond the national borders, and in particular beyond the northern border, which is where millions of our Mexican brothers live and work under conditions that undermine their dignity.” He added that the new ombudsman must be firm in condemning the fence being built on the northern border, “the wall of shame,” as well as in denouncing ”the humiliations to which our fellow citizens are subjected to by American officials in the border area.”
Diario Xalapa (Xalapa, Veracruz) 10/22/09
Official comments on state of Mexico migration figures
Arnulfo Valdivia, International Affairs Coordinator of the state of Mexico [Note: not of the country of Mexico; one of the country’s states is also called Mexico] acknowledged that 14,000 state residents emigrate “to the other side” each year in search of better opportunities. [“The other side” is a common Mexican slang expression when referring to the United States]
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Election day marred by violence
Today, Sunday, is voting day in the Mexican state of Coahuila where 38 municipal governments will be elected, but the day began with the discovery of three bodies tossed in front of a voting booth in the city of Torreon. Authorities assured that the crime was not related to the elections, blaming organized crime violence instead. The unidentified bodies, found at 6:45 a.m., were removed by 8 a.m. and the booth opened without further incident.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 10/22/09
Bloody Juarez
The local news section today featured seven, more prominent leading items. These were followed by a secondary “More news” listing. The eighth of these listed reads: “Another violent day; 16 assassinated yesterday.”
But “Norte”, another Ciudad Juarez paper, reported that yesterday’s murder count was 17. It added that the year’s count of policemen murdered in Juarez has now reached 50. On Tuesday, there were 33 shell casings from AK-47 gunfire around the body of the latest such victim.
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 10/22/09
A shootout between “strongly armed men” and Mexican military resulted in ten dead, an unknown number of wounded and at least eight arrests in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Grenades, high caliber firearms and bazookas were used in the firefight.
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The gore continues
The mutilated bodies of nine people and their decapitated heads were found in front of a clinic in the Mexican town of Tlapehuala, state of Guerrero. According to local authorities, there has been an intensification of organized crime violence in that region. The macabre discovery was made late Thursday evening.
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The body of an ex-commander of the Durango state department of investigations was found under a bridge near the state’s capital. He had been abducted the day before his body was discovered along with a narco-message.
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In Sinaloa, a federal agent was killed when he and his partner made a traffic stop of an SUV. They were met with gunfire not only from the stopped vehicle, but also from another SUV that joined the fight. The other agent escaped injury and the the attackers fled.
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In Tiquicheo, Michoacan, the mayor and her husband in their vehicle en route to the city offices, were attacked by gunmen. The mayor’s husband was killed and she received major injuries. The article mentioned that, since 2008 to the present, 18 city officials in the state have been executed in this manner.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 10/16/09
Arrests and seizures in Colombia
Colombian police arrested 18 people suspected of belonging to an organization engaged in trafficking chemicals used in processing illegal drugs. The operation took place simultaneously in the cities of Medellin, Barranquilla, Cali and Cucutla where seizures of properties valued at an estimated $185,000 were also made.
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Cocaine air-drop in the Dominican Republic
Anti-narcotics agents in the Dominican Republic seized 25 packages of cocaine dropped from an airplane into the waters off the eastern province of La Romana. The intended target of the drop was on land, but the arrival of military helicopters caused the pilot to dump the load in the sea and escape. One suspect was arrested.
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Fidel opines
Ex-Cuban President Fidel Castro expressed his opinion that Bolivian President Evo Morales deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, maintaining that US President Barack Obama “knows he has not yet earned it.” Castro stated, “If Obama was awarded the prize for winning his election in a racist society despite being African American, Evo deserves it for winning in his country despite being an indigenous [native American] and, furthermore, accomplishing what he promised.”
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El Debate (Sinaloa) 10/16/09
Gun battle in Mazatlan
At least one dead, two wounded and seven arrested is the result of an encounter between the Mexican military and an armed group of thugs in Mazatlan, Sinaloa. Army units on routine patrol attempted to stop two suspicious vehicles and were met with grenades and gunfire. One soldier was wounded in the initial attack, but the military returned fire and a vehicle chase ensued through the streets of the neighborhood. The fugitives holed up in the gang’s safe-house from which they continued the battle. One of the criminals inside the building was killed; the rest were captured, including one female. The battle took place next to a children’s school, resulting in 50 of the children needing treatment for “nervous crisis.”
Novedades de Quintana Roo (Cancun, QR) 10/16/09
Five abducted at market
A drug dealer suspected of stealing from his own gang was murdered in a market area in Cancun Thursday morning and 12 hours later, four people were abducted from the same area along with a hapless taxi driver who just happened to be there. The four apparent targets of the abductions were local venders who are believed to have been accomplices in the murdered man’s treason. A heavily armed group seized the five people without firing a shot and left in three vehicles.
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Sunday 10/18/09
El Financiero (Mexico City) 10/17/09
Cocaine shipment seized in Panama
Anti-drug agents of Panama’s National Police seized two tons of cocaine hidden on a ship and arrested three Colombians and one Panamanian in connection with the contraband. The ship was in port at Colon, on the Caribbean coast.
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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 10/17/09
Attacks on police continue
While on routine patrol, municipal police in Tancitaro, Michoacan, were ambushed by a heavily armed group. Two of the police were wounded by a fragmentation grenade in the attack.
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El Debate (Sinaloa) 10/17/09
Warning of rise in violence
The Mexican department of justice (PGR) warned of an increase in violence in the state of Sinaloa due to disputes between diverse organized crime groups. Records of the PGR show that in only 16 days, a total of 57 people, among them women, minors and police, have been victims of such violence.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 10/17/09
Arrests in Altar, Sonora
A hotel in Altar, Sonora, was searched by elements of the Mexican Army, resulting in the arrests of 17 people and the seizure of vehicles and firearms. The detainees were turned over to the federal department of justice (PGR) in Hermosillo. [An indication that the operation dealt with organized crime].
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 10/17/09
Serious crime in Mexico
Some 400 police authorities, including federal, state and municipal police, Mexican Army, crime experts and inspectors, carried out an operation in Tequila, Jalisco, in which they confiscated thousands of liters of adulterated beverage being sold as tequila. During the six-hour operation, authorities of the three levels of government searched the shops in the city that carries the name of the famous Mexican alcoholic beverage [or perhaps vice versa]. The processing and sale of alcohol labeled ‘tequila’ is strictly controlled by Mexican law.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 10/17/09
Weed seized, eight arrested
Baja California state police arrested eight subjects in possession of more than a ton of marihuana in Tijuana. The group was arrested as they were unloading the marihuana from a tractor-trailer truck. The police were answering a citizen’s report of a stolen vehicle when they located the vehicle being loaded by the group.
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More violence
One Tijuana policemen was killed and another wounded in a gunfight this morning. Details were sketchy, but said two arrests had been made.
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Two more gruesome murders, one a woman decapitated and the other, a mutilated body hanging from a bridge, were reported in Tijuana.
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Soldiers arrested
Two members of the Mexican Army were held for investigation for possible links to criminal gangs, according to the federal department of justice (PGR). Both were ordered held for 40 days while the investigation is carried out.
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Novedades de Quintana Roo (Cancun, QR) 10/17/09
Gangs fight for control of Cancun drug market
Cuban American “mafias” are said to be fighting local drug distributors for control of the Cancun area of operations. The state Attorney General believes that five recent executions in the north of the state are a result of a struggle for control for the growing drug market in the Cancun area. ”Quintana Roo has become a place of high demand, a state of major drug trafficking, but the problem is that it is no longer one of passage but rather one of consumption. That is where the problem arises,” he said. Because of the high levels of consumption in the state, the AG believes the in-fighting of the criminal gangs has shifted from control of trafficking routes to control of local sales.
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News from Canada
Canadians intercept ship with smuggled aliens. For the story:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BD7GL80&show_article=1&catnum=0
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Monday 10/19/09
La Jornada (Mexico City) 10/18/09
Hunger killing Guatemalans
At least 469 people, including 54 children, have died in Guatemala this year for lack of nourishment. The worst drought in 33 years is considered largely to blame for the food shortage. Some 90,000 peasants, mostly indigenous, have difficulty getting food in this Central American country that has the greatest chronic malnutrition rate for children under the age of five. Ironically, experts say Guatemala has vast resources, but those are poorly managed by the government.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 10/18/09
Arrests made in yesterday’s police shooting
Three men who presumably participated in the attack on police in Tijuana [reported yesterday] were arrested by the military. The shootout yesterday resulted in the deaths of one policeman and one of the attackers.
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El Diario de Juarez (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 10/18/09
Mexican gun control
A woman, 50, in Chihuahua city, Chihuahua, was arrested for being in possession of a .357 caliber pistol that she used to shoot a burglar breaking into her house. The burglar received a gunshot wound to the leg and was arrested. The type of revolver the woman used is restricted to the exclusive use of the military, authorities noted. She was initially charged with wounding the burglar, but the state Attorney General dropped that charge and only held her for possession and use of a prohibited firearm.
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Novedades de Quintana Roo (Cancun, QR) 10/18/09
Update on earlier story
A man reported murdered in a market area in Cancun has been identified as a Cuban American. No further details were given. [Apparently related to Saturday's report (above) from the same news source.]
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I did the BUMP for you, out of respect ;-)
It’s hilarious. The Mexican far-left party is actually better on the issue of immigration than the center-right party. They don’t like all the people leaving as a matter of national pride.
Remember last summer when the Mexican Drug Cartels burned down 88,000 acres in the the LaBrea fire in California, and a forest service employee was killed in Oregon trying to clear one of their plantations? Some of our congresspeople are paying attention.
From Cong. Wally Herger
E-Update on Immigration and Homeland Security: Increase Federal Protection of Public Lands from Drug Cartels
Because of your interest in immigration and homeland security, I wanted to let you know that I have requested a meeting with officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Drug Enforcement Administration, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management to gather information and ensure they are working to develop an effective, coordinated strategy to protect our nation’s public lands and local citizens from the violence and problems that are associated with the ongoing marijuana production. The rampant illegal production of marijuana on our public lands is outrageous and unacceptable and is putting citizens at risk. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, 3.68 million marijuana plants were seized on federal lands between January and November of 2008. Local law enforcement officials believe that most of this marijuana production is being run by Mexican drug cartels. These drug traffickers are increasingly turning to violence and have fired on law enforcement officers on a number of recent occasions. Their actions jeopardize the lives of our law enforcement officers and citizens using the land for recreation.
Local law enforcement agencies have expressed concerns that the federal government is not providing the necessary support to protect our public lands from the large-scale marijuana plantations operated by drug traffickers. Make no mistake, this is fundamentally a federal responsibility. For this reason, I have requested a joint meeting with the relevant federal agencies to gather more information about the federal government’s efforts and help ensure that counter-narcotics efforts are well coordinated and are receiving the resources and attention necessary to effectively address this serious challenge. It is time for the federal government to meet its responsibilities with a sense of urgency. I will continue my efforts to ensure that our law enforcement officials have the necessary resources to fight this growing problem.
The Mexican political parties also (bizarrely) appear to be the reverse of U.S. political parties on death penalty issues & getting "tough on crime".
Here in U.S., you usually see conservatives from the GOP cite high levels of crimes and promise tougher sentences, and/or promise to reintroduce and/or enforce the death penalty for the murderers, as a popular platform (Bush I famously defeated Dukakis by pushing this issue and showing how weak Dukasis was on crime). The other major party in the U.S., our generally leftist Democrats, favor death penalty laws for the most part but usually are comfortable with the status quo. The far-left third parties, like the Green Party, are the only ones demanding the death penalty be abolished, and claiming everyone in prison locked up for murder is a victim of racism and how the whole crime system persecutes minorities and innocent people.
Over in Mexico, the only party citing high levels of crime and citing lax enforcement, and demanding tougher sentences and reintroduction of the death penalty is the "far left" Mexican Green Party and other "fringe" groups. The "mainstream" generally leftist party in Mexico, the PRI, has no official stance on the matter but generally they would be OK with death penalty laws in certain circumstances, but they're pretty much comfortable with the status quo right now (no death penalty). The major "conservative" party in Mexico, PAN, is not only adamantly against the death penalty but even against life sentences for murderers, arguing the whole system is unfair and biased against the poor and minorities, blah blah blah. Free Mumia! lol.
I have also noticed that "Mexicans abroad" who support the "conservative" party in their own country (PAN), simultaneously support the most liberal politicians in the U.S. If you look at the vote totals in the southwestern U.S. and locate the areas with the highest support for hardcore socialist Dems like Obama, then look at the areas in the U.S. where "PAN" and Calderon got the most votes from Mexicans living in our country, it's the same regions.
Very weird phenomenon. And something we need to keep our eye on since the massive levels of Mexican immigration is increasing bringing their politics to our shores.
Where’d you find the breakdown of the Mexican vote in the US?
The Mexican government has the results available, but by the Mexican state the absentee ballots were cast for, not the US jurisdiction from where.
PAN seems to have cleaned up with the US vote.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/atlas_voto_ife.pdf
It's taking forever to load, so I haven't gone thur it, but my recollection is that yes, PAN won overwhemingly among Mexicans in the U.S., and that PAN got the bulk of their votes from regions of the U.S. that overwhemingly favor commie Democrats (Los Angeles, Chicago, etc.) There's probably a good case to made that the “far left” PNR would have won that election if not for the extra boost of votes PAN got from Obama loving Mexicans here. Certainly it was down to the wire in Mexico and each party won about half of Mexico's states.
Considering Mexicans often illegal vote in our elections and affect the outcome (Loretta Sanchez anyone?), turnabout is fair play. I wonder if there's a way to claim to be an “undocumentary migrant” and get them to mail us some Mexican ballots for the next election? We might foist some decent pro-law abiding politician on them. That is assuming they have anyone decent running (most of the anti-illegal alien politicians are commies, though someone once mentioned there was a “Zell Miller type PRI congressman” who vocally opposed open border policies.
The sad thing is most of our Senators feel the same way!
With only four days remaining until Congressman Luis Guitierez files his Comprehensive Amnesty legislation,the people are organizing and preparing Tea Parties Against Amnesty to be held across America on November 14!
The Tea Party Against Amnesty effort is being organized at www.AgainstAmnesty.com
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