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Mordida, a common event in Mexico
National Assn. of Former Border Patrol Officers ^ | Oct. 30, 2009 | NAFBPO

Posted on 10/31/2009 8:01:52 AM PDT by AuntB

Por Esto (Merida, Yucatan) 10/28/09

“Mordida”, a favorite extortion and bribe in Mexico

In Cancun, Mexico, police stopped a driver, a visiting tourist, for an alleged “administrative violation.” Then they asked the tourist for up to $300 dollars so she could proceed without having a penalty issued to her. It turned out that the victim of this extortion was Michelle Fischbach, a state senator from Minnesota, who later presented a written complaint to the local authorities regarding the episode. Five Cancun “Tourist Police” officers are now under investigation for their personal attempt at extortion. “Mordida” (a “bite”) is a common Mexican expression meaning an under-the-table payment made to extract a bribe from any official in order to avoid a higher penalty or to expedite a formal bureaucratic process.

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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 10/28/09

Thirty-five Chinese detained in Guadalajara

On Tuesday night, thirty-five Chinese arrived in Guadalajara aboard a flight from Cancun, Quintana Roo. None of the Chinese had a visa allowing them to enter or be in Mexico, and all were detained. Unofficially, it was learned that this case is related to the recent scandal involving the “INM” (Mex. Natn’l. Immigration Agency) in the state of Quintana Roo, where a number of officials have been found to be involved in people trafficking.

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El Tiempo (Bogota, Colombia) 10/28/09

U.S. & Colombia to sign agreement

After an official visit to the Pentagon, Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Gabriel Silva, said that a formal agreement is about to be signed by Colombia and the United States allowing U.S. military bases on Colombian soil. He emphasized that the agreement is nothing new but only a continuation of both nations’ combat against drug traffickers, and that part of it is due to the recent forced abandonment by the U.S. of a base at Manta, Ecuador, due to that government’s policy.

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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 10/28/09

A bunch that got away

When a “coyote” driving a pickup truck saw that he was being followed by federal police, he abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot. And so did all his passengers, believed to be illegal aliens en route to the United States. The whole bunch managed to avoid detention. The event took place on the highway between Comitan and San Cristobal, in Chiapas.

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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) & Excelsior (Mexico City) 10/28/09

Ciudad Juarez stays in the news

Buried in the eleventh place after other local news items for Juarez, this item: “Yesterday, another 7 executions,”

And the “Coordinator General” of the Chihuahua State Police was wounded but survived a car-to-car gunfire attack in Ciudad Juarez today (Wed.); the attack killed one of his accompanying bodyguards and wounded a second one.

Also from “Excelsior”: “at least” eight Reynosa city police officers tested positive in a recent drug detection test. [Reynosa is right across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas]

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El Dictamen (Veracruz, Ver.) 10/28/09

A rite of passage?

Alberto Fabre Platas, a “Universidad Veracruzana” researcher, said that, among adolescents, migration is tied to social legitimization issues because they consider it a passage to adulthood in order to be accepted by their communities. For Fabre, the phenomenon of migration has become an acceptance ritual, because crossing the border gives them a certain “social prestige” that allows them to be treated as adults when they return. He added that there is no correlation between poorer and better-off communities as far as the rate of emigration to the United States.

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 10/28/09

Central Americans detained

Thirty-seven “undocumented” men from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras were detected and detained by Mex. Federal and state personnel near the railroad station at Irolo, by Tepeapulco, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.

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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 10/28/09

Military reinforcements for Nuevo Leon

“Hundreds” of additional Mexican military personnel have arrived in the state of Nuevo Leon “to participate in activities to combat organized crime” in the area, “so that Mexican society may have a climate of tranquility and peace.”

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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) & La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 10/28/09

Crimes in Michoacán

Early Wednesday morning someone phoned the police at Uruapan, Michoacán, and reported a pickup truck with four bodies in the cargo bed. Police found the vehicle and the bodies, all showing signs of torture and impact wounds from firearms. Earlier this week, the body of a man was found in four plastic bags in the area; he’d been dismembered into eleven different parts.

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 10/28/09

Cross border tunnel found

Another cross-border tunnel was located in Otay Mesa, an area immediately to the east of Tijuana. This one had lighting and was “at least” 90 meters (98 yds.) long; interior dimensions were estimated at over 6’ high and over 4’ wide. However, no mention was made of the location of an exit, if any, in the U.S. side of the border. The starting point on the Mexican side was an abandoned warehouse by #8 Salvatierra St., [Just west of the Otay Mesa international border crossing port)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; corruption; cultureofbribes; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; mexico; mordida; nafbpo; narcoterror
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

1 posted on 10/31/2009 8:01:53 AM PDT by AuntB
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To: AuntB
In Cancun, Mexico, police stopped a driver, a visiting tourist, for an alleged “administrative violation.” Then they asked the tourist for up to $300 dollars so she could proceed without having a penalty issued to her.

Same things happens daily on Interstate 81, in Washington county Virgina.

2 posted on 10/31/2009 8:05:49 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: AuntB

http://www.wftv.com/news/21479920/detail.html


3 posted on 10/31/2009 8:07:07 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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4 posted on 10/31/2009 8:08:00 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: org.whodat; AuntB
Same things happens daily on Interstate 81, in Washington county Virgina.

Also happens on U.S. 29 in Madison and Greene Counties in Virginia.

5 posted on 10/31/2009 8:12:57 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: AuntB

Viva La Raza!


6 posted on 10/31/2009 8:14:11 AM PDT by redstateconfidential (`)
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To: AuntB

One time when I was in my early twenties, I was in a mexican bar...one where only americans were drinking. When the bar closed, we found that a mexican cop had run a rope accross the exit of the bar parking lot and claimed all were parked illegally and they must pay a fine to get out of the parking lot. $10 bucks cash, iirc.

Me and my buddies were drunk and invincible. So naturally we told the cop to * off, and we tore down his rope and left.

I don’t know if we were lucky or what. But the cop didn’t chase after us.


7 posted on 10/31/2009 8:18:51 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: rabscuttle385; org.whodat; All

” Same things happens daily on Interstate 81, in Washington county Virgina.

Also happens on U.S. 29 in Madison and Greene Counties in Virginia. “

It’s happening all over this nation.

Following is the perspective of a Mexican citizen/journalist about his own ‘culture’, translated for us by NAFBPO.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2374377/posts?page=4#4

Milenio (Mexico City) 10/29/09

“The importance of obedience”

Full transl. of op/col. by Roman Revueltas, whose previous column appeared in the M3 Report of 10/28/09.

People throw out garbage. That means, we have to change the people. Imagine a country of very civilized people: people who don’t park their car in the middle of a cross street; people who take their turn in line; people who respect; people who do as they say; people who obey. Well, that country, of people who know how to behave, would be much more livable than another, for instance, where people do whatever they feel like doing without any consideration toward their fellow man.

Last week I was walking down the street and a fellow who was walking ahead of me stopped, picked up a plastic bottle dumped on the sidewalk and went into a store to put it in a waste bin. I waited for him to come out and congratulated him. I later thought that this is the way that all of us Mexicans ought to be. I ask you, then, to imagine a territory populated by orderly and reliable persons: almost paradise.

People usually follow rules for fear of punishment. This explains the colossal growth of criminality in Mexico due to the scandalous lack of punishment for the criminals: if you murder and nothing happens to you, well then, you kill again and you go on kidnapping. But, it’s not a matter of bringing up the death penalty scarecrow; it’s an issue of applying the laws, and nothing more. The great question is why is it that millions of citizens exist here who want to commit all sorts of infractions: throwing out garbage is a small transgression; ignoring a traffic light is a minor crime; assassinating a kidnapped child is a monstrosity perpetrated by a beast . Nevertheless, the common denominator of disobedience is present in all cases.

The more highly evolved individuals do not abstain from committing a crime for fear of jail but due to a clear conscience of what is right and what is wrong. Their personality has been structured based on moral values. That is precisely where our failure is as a society: Mexico is a jungle dominated by disobedient, quick tempered and irresponsible individuals, Calderon cannot change this. We change it ourselves.

http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8664651


8 posted on 10/31/2009 8:30:03 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: AuntB

Agreed, did you check out the link I gave you??


9 posted on 10/31/2009 8:31:46 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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10 posted on 10/31/2009 8:32:47 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: org.whodat

Heartbreaking! And you can find this kind of headline in any city USA, any day.

Men Found Guilty Of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl

Posted: 4:33 pm EDT October 30, 2009Updated: 6:35 pm EDT October 30, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County jury convicted two illegal immigrants Friday of kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl. The 12-year-old, who was eleven at the time, was on her way to school in February when she was grabbed off the street at knife-point.

The two men who were accused of raping the girl could go to prison for the rest of their lives. Life is the most serious sentence they could face under Florida law, but both will spend at least 25 years.

The jury found the men guilty (see images) on nine counts against the two illegal immigrants, after two and a half hours of deliberations.

The jury’s guilty verdicts were exactly what Orange County Sheriff’s Sergeant Rich Mankewich, who led the investigation against them, wanted to hear.

“I initially talked to the victim at the hospital, just hearing her story was overwhelming. These guys are animals. They need to be locked up for the rest of their lives,” Mankewich said.

Richard Morales-Marin was actually playful in court before testifying Thursday that he thought the sixth-grader was a prostitute. Even though the 12-year-old was bundled up in cold weather clothes. Morales-Marin smirked when he saw co-defendant, Juan Hernandez-Monzalvo crying.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21479920/detail.html


11 posted on 10/31/2009 8:41:01 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: rabscuttle385

We’ve heard that our state cops have to earn enough for their salaries and equipment so I’m expecting them to start stopping people for picking their nose. “But Officer, it wasn’t a pick!”

Around here it is the dreaded license plate light that causes you to get stopped and ticketed then they have the opportunity to interrogate you, get all you papers and sometimes, if they haven’t found anything else to cite you for, ask to search.

Big government, where even the upright, honest and moral are probably breaking some law.

Mexico is bad but the U.S. is swiftly catching up.


12 posted on 10/31/2009 8:58:58 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: AuntB

Ah yes, mordida! My husbands uncle died of a heart attack in Mexico. Every body in the City of Cozumel had to be paid off before we could get his body back to the US for burial.


13 posted on 10/31/2009 9:03:38 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: mamelukesabre

Your story reminds me of the Texas father who went to Mexico to look for his daughter who ‘disappeared’ one night down there visiting friends. The US government did nothing to help. The Mexicans were even worse. Weeks after her disappearance, the father found her car....in the lockup at the local police station.


14 posted on 10/31/2009 9:10:21 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: Ditter
That's the way Mexico works. Nothing gets done there without payments made under the table.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

15 posted on 10/31/2009 9:27:55 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: AuntB

NAFBPO bump.


16 posted on 10/31/2009 10:00:18 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Mexico - beyond your expectations!)
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To: AuntB
And Latinos wonder why Gringos want to CLOSE the Southern Border???

Why aren't the Latinos (led by the Wise Latina Woman) out there EDUCATING illegal aliens and Legal Immigrants on USofA Culture?

This type of anti-social behavior gives all Latinos a bad name.
17 posted on 10/31/2009 10:32:43 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
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