http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348319&CategoryId=14091
Posted on 12/03/2009 10:41:59 AM PST by AuntB
Seven women were murdered in Mexico, including one who was beheaded in the southern beach resort of Cancun, authorities reported Monday.
Four of the women were killed in Ciudad Juarez, where two were shot to death, another beaten with a baseball bat and a fourth, a school teacher, also was beaten to death.
The northern border city is at the center of a raging drug war that has claimed 2,300 lives so far this year.
In Baja California state, two women were found shot to death in Mexicali, also on the US border, the Attorney General's office said.
In the Caribbean tourist mecca of Cancun, a 19-year-old woman was found beheaded in a sports stadium.
The victim, a suspected prostitute, had a relationship with a police officer who was murdered last week, the office said.
Elsewhere, eight men were found murdered in northern Chihuahua state, five of them in Ciudad Juarez, the state attorney general's office said.
More than 14,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon took office and deployed 50,000 troops to fight violence.
Article was forwarded by NAFBPO
Today’s NAFBPO M3 Foreign news report:
Little protection for witnesses in Mexico
Posted: 02 Dec 2009 07:03 AM PST
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Little protection in Mexico
El Universal and La Jornada (both Mexico City) 12/1/09
Protected witness assassinated
A man under witness protection of the Mexican Department of Justice (PGR) was assassinated in a Starbucks in Mexico City today. Edgar Enrique Bayardo del Villar, who had testified in a major political corruption scandal in 2008 was gunned down in the fashionable coffee shop by two men dressed in business suits who entered from a waiting SUV, killed Bayardo and wounded his bodyguard and an unidentified woman. Bayardo was the second protected witness to die in the past few days in connection to the investigation of the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. The other death, attributed to suicide by hanging, was of a nephew of “El Mayo” who was in protective custody of the PGR. [Photo relates.]
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 12/1/09
Panama strengthens efforts in drug war
Panama, a country that seizes about five percent of the world’s cocaine production, inaugurated the first of 11 naval air stations to be dedicated to combat narcotraffic. This first station is located on an island in the Gulf of Panama. A joint task force made up of 55 members of the National Police, Border Service and Naval Air Service began their initial operations on Chapera Island, some 50 miles south of Panama City and one of the “hottest” in the Las Perlas Archipelago for drug trafficking from Colombia to the US. In addition to Chapera Island, the government will have naval air stations at Piña, Punta Coco, Mensabe, Coiba and Quebrada de Piedras on the Pacific side and Chiriqui Grande, Isla Colon, Sherman, El Porvenir and Puerto Obaldia on the Atlantic.
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Cuarto Poder (Chiapas) 12/1/09
Casual border enforcement
[Quoting] “Everything crosses the Mexico-Guatemala River. No one crosses through the international ports of entry. Before the eyes of the Customs, Immigration, Mexican Army and police from one side of the border to the other, everything crosses.” The article goes on to describe the dozens of inner-tube rafts that forge across the Suchiate River every day and every hour, bringing diverse products. Nobody crosses through the official ports because this way they avoid being subjected to “severe inspection” by the authorities. Other than the ports, the rest of the southern border is “highly porous” and contraband crosses brazenly in sight of everyone and then with the protection and permission of authorities. [Photo relates.]
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La Jornada (Mexico City) 12/1/09
Remittances drop
Remittances sent from Mexicans living abroad to their families in Mexico fell 35.82% in October 2009 compared to October 2008, according to the Bank of Mexico. The remittances, one of the most important sources of currency in the country, amounted to nearly 1.7 billion US dollars in October. The estimated 10% drop in remittances for the year is believed due to the effects of the economic recession in the US where most of the Mexican migrants live. ——————–
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Mexico is the Taliban with a little pagan version of Catholicism thrown in for respectability.
They also have the BIGGEST egos.
One of the dentists in the border town below us was kidnapped last Thursday and is feared dead, the mayor was murdered a few months ago.
Mexico is a wasteland. Tons of natural resources and all of it being exploited and used for self serving purposes thanks to their thug government.
More news from Nafbpo:
Men Arrested with $4 Million in Cash at Mexican Airport
CANCUN, Mexico – Two Mexicans were arrested by authorities at the international airport in this resort city when they tried to fly to Colombia carrying more than $4 million in cash, the director of international affairs for Mexico’s customs service said.
At the inauguration of the 5th Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy, Jose Padilla told the press that the arrest took place Monday, and that the suspects were traveling on a flight from Guadalajara that touched down in Cancun before leaving for Cali, Colombia.
The customs agents detected the passengers who were traveling on a Copa Airlines plane with two suitcases full of U.S. dollars.
Those under arrest, identified as Hugo Francisco Acosta Rodriguez and Omar Oswaldo Gonzalez, were carrying an undeclared total of $4,113,600 in cash.
Padilla said that the suspects are being held at a local lockup of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office under a strong security guard that includes soldiers of the Mexican army, since they could be involved in drug trafficking.
Recent months have seen several large seizures of cash en route from Mexico to Colombia, source of the cocaine that Mexican cartels smuggle into the United States
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348321&CategoryId=14091
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Corrupt Cop Turned State’s Witness Slain in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – A former high-ranking federal police officer who agreed to testify against the drug traffickers who paid him off was gunned down Tuesday in the Mexican capital, authorities told Efe.
They identified the victim as Edgar Enrique Bayardo Del Villar, who worked until late 2008 as a police inspector for the federal Public Safety Department.
Bayardo was killed around 11:30 a.m. at a Starbucks in Mexico City’s Del Valle district.
As a protected federal witness, Bayardo was usually accompanied by bodyguards, but it remains unclear whether his escorts were with him at the time of the shooting.
Bayardo turned state’s witness almost immediately after he was arrested in October 2008 on accusations that he worked for Jesus “El Rey” (The King) Zambada, a top figure in the Pacific drug cartel.
Within days of his arrest, authorities busted two senior police officers – one of them a close associate of Bayardo – for protecting drug shipments that passed through the capital’s international airport.
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http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348319&CategoryId=14091
Too bad Cancun isn’t on my list of vacation destinations so I could scratch it off.
The connection between these locations raises a question. The cities are separated by large distances. Mexicali, Juarez, and Cancun are nowhere near each other. I’m not saying I’d like to go to Mexico any time soon, but linking these crimes together in an article stretches imagination.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348319&CategoryId=14091
“The connection between these locations raises a question. The cities are separated by large distances. Mexicali, Juarez, and Cancun are nowhere near each other. I’m not saying I’d like to go to Mexico any time soon, but linking these crimes together in an article stretches imagination.”
The ‘connection’ is MEXICO...the whole place is a corrupt narco terrorist state.
Not much going on in Mexico that is legitimate, so many areas where people grow crops to eat also feature lots of pot and other drug fields.
My wife was from the middle of Mexico and she says drugs are cultivated everywhere and the people have a disconnect regarding the damage to others they are doing.
They want their money, alcohol and parties.
I don’t want my wife visiting there. I figure she could easily be kidnapped or worse.
The country really sucks right now.
There is also a massive drought going on, so no food to eat or as many drug crops to cash in on right now.
It’s a nightmare, those buying supplies for food could find themselves dead as others want to take their supplies.
It all sucks IMO.
More than a few fellow Freepers have posted that they still feel safe in the resort areas. I work throughout the year in Mexico and IT AIN’T SO.
Be alert, everywhere.
Prepare as if you were in Chicago.
New signs at all border crossings: “Welcome to Mexico...land of the rolling heads”
Another article sent by NAFBPO
Govt. report: Air cargo still vulnerable to terrorists
Updated 11/25/2009
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-24-air-cargo_N.htm
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The report shows the TSA does not have enough personnel to handle new rules for screening cargo, he said. Passenger planes carry everything from produce and medical supplies to computers and auto parts.
Unlike luggage, airplane cargo is not screened by the TSA. The agency oversees airlines, freight handlers and manufacturers who pack and transport cargo, and ensure its security.
The oversight process “has not effectively ensured” that those companies comply with TSA regulations, the inspector general said. The report noted that the TSA’s own inspectors had found repeated violations of agency rules but said “there are repeat patterns of violations that the TSA has been unable to resolve.”
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More than a few fellow Freepers have posted that they still feel safe in the resort areas. I work throughout the year in Mexico and IT AIN’T SO.
Be alert, everywhere.
Prepare as if you were in Chicago.”
LOL...indeed.
More:
Marijuana Found Mingled with Vegetables
Drugs have an estimated street value of $11M
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Dec 2009, 5:43 AM MST
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/local/nogales_marijuana_120209
Published : Wednesday, 02 Dec 2009, 5:43 AM MST
NOGALES, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry have seized more than 4,500 pounds of marijuana found inside a tractor trailer loaded with vegetables.
Authorities say the 184 bales of marijuana has an estimated street value of nearly $11 million.
They say the marijuana was mingled in with a shipment of bell peppers and cucumbers that originated in Sinaloa, Mexico and was destined for Nogales.
Officers working the Mariposa cargo facility say they noticed an anomaly Monday while they were scanning the tractor trailer through their mobile x-ray unit. A detection dog searched the shipment and alerted officials to the presence of narcotics.
The bell peppers and cucumbers were off-loaded and the marijuana was discovered.
Authorities say the 21-year-old driver — a Mexican citizen — was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation and processing.
A drug user is a loser who is enabling crime and murder with all associated with the drugs.
Mexico has had almost no enforced drug laws and that caused them to get really bad, to permeate all levels of government and to ruin the whole country IMO.
“Mexico has had almost no enforced drug laws and that caused them to get really bad, to permeate all levels of government and to ruin the whole country IMO.”
To add insult to injury, a few months ago Mexico legalized personal possession of ALL drugs. No one coming over that border will be without them now.
In fact, the sucky reason for it was their police are so corrupt, this was done so the police couldn't as easily extort money from people.
Auntie, I’d love to go to Cancun again. And in that I am 1) not a prostitute and 2) not having a relationship with a murdered policeman and 3) not going to any sports stadia there, I think I would be safe. Tourists who keep their noses clean, stay in the tourism zone, stick to hotel beaches (I recommend the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach or the Ritz-Carlton, Fiesta Americana has the best beach) and use only taxis recommended by their hotels are fairly safe. Go off the beaten path, anywhere in Mexico, and you are in danger. Same goes for Washington, DC, unfortunately.
I used to love to vacation in Mexico. I’m too old and too big a coward to attempt it now...btw, I stay out of our cities too! My old hometown in So. Oregon is gangland sanctuary city!
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