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  • Protesters burn Mexican city’s government offices over suspected murder of students

    10/18/2014 1:35:57 AM PDT · by blueplum · 25 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2014 | Nick Miroff
    MEXICO CITY — Protesters ransacked and burned government offices Monday in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, in an explosion of outrage over the suspected kidnapping and murder of 43 students by corrupt local police. Anti-government rallies have been held in several Mexican cities since the students’ disappearance Sept. 26 and the subsequent discovery of mass graves outside Iguala, about 120 miles south of Mexico City. But on Monday, the protests turned violent.
  • Cross-border drug tunnel equipped with rail system (Tijuana to San Diego)

    10/31/2013 5:09:07 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 8 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Oct. 31, 2013 6:20 PM EDT | Elliot Spagat
    A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego is equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system, U.S. authorities said Thursday, making it one of the more sophisticated secret passages discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities seized more than 8 tons of marijuana and 325 pounds of cocaine in connection with the discovery, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Three suspects were in U.S. custody. The tunnel links warehouses in Tijuana and San Diego’s Otay Mesa industrial area. The area is filled with nondescript warehouses, making it easier to conceal trucks being loaded with drugs. …
  • Happy New Year: Mexican Drug Cartels Resolve To Increase Meth Supply For U.S. Drug Addicts

    01/01/2012 5:51:57 AM PST · by AtlasStalled · 25 replies
    Friends of Ours ^ | 01/01/12 | Friends of Ours
    Degenerate meth heads in the United States have good reason to celebrate the new year. 2012 promises to be a banner year in meth supply as the powerful Sinalo cartel headed by Forbes-listed billinoaire Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is ramping up production in Guatemala as reported by The Associated Press: "Guzman is taking advantage of Guatemala's remote, isolated mountains and an alliance with a key Guatemalan trafficker to make the Central American nation a new international meth production base." China is a principal supplier to the Sinaloa cartel of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine, and within the last...