7/23 News from south of the border

[Joann]

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Friday, 7/23/10

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 7/22/10

A tale of two cities

El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, divided only by a usually dry river, now contrast from each other as much as disparate twins. The high index of assassinations on the Mexican side continues to increase, in inverse proportion to that in Texas, where they decrease. And, in the last 23 years, El Paso police have resolved 96% of those crimes, while in Juarez the number is 98%, but in the case of Juarez that figure relates to unsolved, still pending cases. Thus far in 2010 there have been some 1,600 homicides in Ciudad Juarez, while El Paso has only had one.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=73bc8fd7aa0b1ed19ce95ca3a0b634f2

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Yesterday, in Juarez

This Wednesday there were nine more victims of homicide in Juarez

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=85b84bb8576740bfd7e96a6573475599

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Threat about more car-bombs

The Sinaloa Cartel has now displayed a new banner threatening to murder innocent persons in case the Chihuahua state government does not remove the chief of the Police Intelligence Center (CIPOL), Fernando Ornelas. Just last Sunday, thugs from “La Linea”, the armed enforcement group of the Carrillo Fuentes Cartel, addressed a message to the FBI and the DEA and threatened to place another car-bomb loaded with 100 kilos of C-4 (a variety of plastic explosive more powerful than TNT) if authorities don’t take action against certain corrupt (Mexican) officials who support the Sinaloa Cartel.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=168a8b3e780bd29fa142925fc98bdd57

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Shootout in Chihuahua

A military unit of “more than 100” reached the operations center of a group of killers and drug traffickers at a place called “El Cable de la Simona”, (located in the far west of the state), 4 hours from Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua. A firefight broke out and at least eight thugs were killed but others escaped westward over the rough terrain and headed for the neighboring state of Sonora. Weapons seized include hand guns and “long barrel” firearms, not otherwise described, as well as bazookas and grenade launchers.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=1b5a19065dc13395ae9ba02fae9e05e1

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La Estrella de Panama (Panama City, Panama) 7/21/10

Cocaine just keeps flowing northbound

Yet another “fast boat” hauling drugs was spotted and found after a chase off the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal today. This crew attempted evasive and escape maneuvers but crashed while doing so. One crewman, a Colombian, was arrested but three others fled into the jungle. The 45’ boat was propelled by four outboard motors of 200 hp. each; it also carried 24 barrels of fuel. (The link to the article has a photo of the boat.) Drug traffickers are apparently willing to risk that some loads get captured as long as others get through. This one carried 2,447 kilos of cocaine.

http://www.laestrella.com.pa/mensual/2010/07/21/contenido/260216.asp

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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 7/22/10

Weapons found going northbound into Mexico

Mexican police seized 17 firearms and ammunition at a highway checkpoint near Tapachula, Chiapas, in the area of the Guatemalan border. Five persons, all Mexican, were arrested. According to Mexico’s PGR (Dep’t. of Justice) more than 70,000 firearms have been seized since Dec. 2006. This particular event yielded 11 AK-47, 1 AR-15, 3 M-16 & 2 Galil rifles, plus ammo and clips.

http://noticias.cuarto-poder.com.mx/4p_apps/periodico/pag.php?MTE1MjU4

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La Hora (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 7/21/10

“Prisoners of Terror” [Portions of an op/col by Felix Loarca Guzman, titled as shown]

Guatemala is currently facing one of the most critical periods of its history due to the impressive levels of violence that reach all professions, ages, and social levels, although they are particularly cruel against passenger bus drivers, and their helpers and passengers. A feeling of frustration prevails in the different sectors of society due to unparalleled acts such as the placing of firebombs in passenger buses in Guatemala’s capital, activated by remote control from cellular phones, with a tragic result of dead, wounded, widows and orphans. The situation is so complex and delicate that it demands energetic measures to dismantle this shameful scaffolding of death that has the rule of law literally on its knees.

http://www.lahora.com.gt/notas.php?key=70444&fch=2010-07-21

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El Diario (Saltillo, Coahuila) 7/22/10

Counterfeit “soldiers” and military vehicles

Mexico’s Dep’ts. of Defense and of the Navy report that groups of hired killers are dressing up as soldiers and marines to confuse area residents and carry out their activities. Officials are also attempting to locate where vehicles are being “cloned” to make then appear as if they were really official and belonged to the military. Last Monday two such vehicles, with false logos and insignia, were found in the military zone which covers the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon (the northeast corner of Mexico.)

http://www.eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx/notas/2010/7/22/nacional-188311.asp

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El Universal (Mexico City) 7/22/10

The violence spreads

This paper today reported that this morning there were eight victims of “execution” in the state of Sinaloa. Likewise, five other victims of homicide were found in the area of Tepic, state of Nayarit. (This is not far north from Puerto Vallarta.) Tepic has now had 33 execution deaths this month, related to struggles between groups of drug traffickers.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/697117.html

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/697130.html

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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 7/22/10

An accolade for Mexico’s senate president

In its opinion page, this paper gave the “Thumbs Up” of the day to Carlos Navarrete, president of Mexico’s senate, for having had the presidents of the parliaments of 11 other countries join him in a protest against the AZ Law SB1070, deeming it to be racist and xenophobic. The senator made a call on Americans to bring about a reform that may permit migrants to regularize their status with full rights and obligations.

http://www.cronica.com.mx/opinion.php

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Total brutality

In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, late on Tuesday, the various dismembered parts of a man’s extremities were found scattered on several city streets within an area of four blocks. Arms, legs, the torso and hands dumped on various street corners and blocks caused fear for neighbors and witnesses. The victim’s head was found stuck on top of a fence.

http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=520475

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[Joann]

Lawmakers told border crime getting out of hand

Along the newly fenced Mexican border, dangerous and heavily armed groups are increasingly smuggling people as well as dope — and U.S. border investigators must dedicate more time to dismantle their organizations, according to a Government Accounting Office report released to Congress Thursday.

Though Congress has increased the Border Patrol to an all-time high of 20,000 officers, a small cadre of specialized federal investigators assigned to Immigration & Customs Enforcement devotes 16 percent of its time to probing the netherworld of border smuggling. And some border specialists have gotten stuck shuffling detainees instead of pursuing criminal leads, according to the GAO report presented Thursday to the U.S. House's border subcommittee.

Zetas branch out

The U.S-Mexican human smuggling business generates billions, but ICE agents have never managed to seize more than $17 million a year in smugglers' assets, Richard M. Stana, director of the GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Issues office, told the committee. He called those results "tepid."

A decade ago, 90 percent of Mexicans and other would-be illegal migrants crossed into the U.S. without using so-called coyotes, Stana said. But with a new wall and twice as many border agents, they increasingly use professional smugglers. That has meant higher prices charged by the smugglers, which attracted organized crime gangs to a business once dominated by less-violent operations rooted in migrant communities.

On the Texas border, the Zetas, the vicious former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel narcotics smuggling organization, have branched into the human smuggling trade.

"As we've done more to secure our borders, alien smuggling organizations have increasingly become more bold, violent and dangerous," subcommittee chairman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said Thursday. "Particularly troubling is the potential for these organizations to smuggle terrorists into our country."

Signs of sophisticated, highly armed and well-financed smuggling operations and related kidnapping and extortion rings have emerged in all U.S.-Mexico border towns, as well as large cities like Houston and Phoenix.

In Arizona, a pre-dawn battle between human smugglers and gangsters killed 21 people on July 1 in the Sonoran desert south of Nogales.

In Houston, agents rescued 11 immigrants held at gunpoint in a house by one violent group of coyotes in 2009 and later dismantled a network of 14 illicit transportation companies used by smuggling rings.

Inspiration from Arizona

The GAO report suggests the U.S. government look to Arizona for inspiration on how to disrupt smugglers' financial networks. At the hearing, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard described how he's worked to cut off money to criminal groups, successfully targeting used car lots, money transfer agencies, travel agents, drop houses and other businesses linked to smuggling and money laundering.

In an interview, Tre Rebstock, an ICE agent who is president of the local officers' union in Houston, said agents would "love to see more resources" for smuggling operations across the Southwest.

"Anyone in investigative work will tell you 'Follow the money' anytime you want to know what's going on," he said. "I would love to see them track these people by their money. No one likes to be separated from their money."

lise.olsen@chron.com

dudley.althaus@chron.com

 

[Joann]

Victims pile up, but IDs don't

By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
July 23, 2010, 6:44AM

Victims pile up, but IDs don't

GUADALUPE, Mexico —The brutality done amid the stacks of rusting cars might unnerve even the meanest junkyard dog.

Mexican soldiers raided a salvage yard here — tucked down a rutted dirt road flanked by scrap heaps and truck repair shops on the east side of Monterrey - to discover the fragmented remains of as many 14 people in shallow graves and 55-gallon drums.

The bodies had been burned, perhaps dissolved in acid, beyond recognition. More victims of Mexico's gangland wars, investigators said.

Little wonder. Cartel clashes have killed scores across northern Mexico over the last 10 days: a car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso; gunfights with troops in Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo; an attack on a birthday party in Torreon, 300 miles south of west Texas; gunbattles in Sinaloa, the Pacific Coast state considered the cradle of Mexico's mobsters.

But with the underworld violence killing 25,000 Mexicans in less than four years, assassins have become nearly as inventive at disposing of their victims as in dispatching them.

Bodies minus limbs

Bodies get dumped in empty lots and roadsides, heaped together in cases of massacre, or laid out alone if that's how the victim died. Police recover corpses stuffed in cars, tumbled into clandestine tombs, laid out like scrabble pieces to form letters.

The detached head, legs and trunk of a man's body were found strewn through Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday evening, the local newspaper El Diario reported, one of seven people killed in the city Juarez that day.

With decapitations becoming almost cliché, now arms and legs get severed, too. One victim in Ciudad Juarez was found crucified on a chain-link fence with a pig's head attached to his torso. Another reportedly had his face stitched to a soccer ball.

Videos of torture interrogations and gruesome executions appear online.

"This is narco-terrorism. The criminals are seeking a reaction in the public," said Eduardo Gallo, president of Mexico United Against Crime, a citizens' group. "They want the public to doubt that government is doing well in the fight.

"We aren't addressing the psychological damage this is causing. We are becoming so accustomed to such violence that we incorporate it into our daily lives."

The macabre itself usually serves as the killers' message. But, as punctuation, often-misspelled notes left with bodies explain why the people were killed and warn others that a similar fate awaits.

"They have their own special codes of communication," said David Perales, a press liaison with the Nuevo Leon state detective agency in Monterrey. "Sometimes they use the bodies to leave a message, and other times they want to hide all evidence of their crime."

Not so subtle messages

Three men were found hanging from bridges on busy roads this month in Cuernavaca, the oasis 50 miles south of Mexico City once known mostly for its flowering gardens and spring-like weather.

"You'll have to find another lover, I've killed this one for you," sneered a placard addressed to Texas-born gangster Edgar Valdez, whose nickname was La Barbie. "The authorities can't do it, but we can."

"Let it be clear: all the pushers, thieves, extortionists and kidnappers are going to end up like this," the note warned.

Dying far from their homes, many of the fallen are neither claimed by families nor fully identified by authorities, and so they are buried nameless in common graves of municipal cemeteries. Other victims simply vanish, swallowed by the earth or disintegrated in a chemical stew.

Officials in early June pulled 56 bodies from an abandoned mine shaft south of Cuernavaca. Clandestine plots, called narco graves, and makeshift crematoriums turn up from Cancun to the Baja California coast.

The scrap yard holding some of the latest discoveries hunkers on the frayed edge of Monterrey - the wealthy city 130 miles south of the border that is Mexico's industrial motor. Many of the businesses along the lane leading to the yard seem abandoned.

A river flanks the high-fenced yard, as do empty lots, shipping containers and a garbage dump. Steam shovels and trucks were noisily depositing the rubble wrought by last month's Hurricane Alex into the dump.

"This is the perfect place to do this sort of thing," said Heriberto Enriquez, who was directing the trucks bringing rip-rap to the dump, of the narco graves. "We're no longer shocked by any of this; it's happening all the time now."

Identification tough

A day after soldiers and investigators uncovered the graves, the yard stood abandoned. Only two visibly frightened black dogs prowled behind the locked wire gate.

Local media forgot the mass graves almost as soon as they were discovered. Attention turned to the bodies of four young men dumped last week in a busy intersection in Monterrey and gunbattles Friday in Nuevo Laredo.

With only some teeth and bone fragments to work with, investigators say, it will take a while to identify how many people were found in the junkyard. Putting names to the remains will take longer.

"We have to do it scientifically," Adrian de la Garza, head of the Nuevo Leon state detective force, said. "We still have to figure out if they were human."

dudley.althaus@chron.com


First Photo: The scene of police and forensic workers carrying corpses of gang victims, like this 2009 incident near Ciudad Juarez, is all too common, citizens groups complain.

Second Photo: Bernandino Hernandez AP
Police in southern Mexico guard a house near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, Saturday April 24 2010, where the dismembered bodies of three men were found in plastic bags. A message allegedly left by the killers near the bodies blamed the dead men for an April 14 shooting in Acapulco that killed six people.

Third Photo: Agencia Contraluz AP
An army soldier stands guard at the crime scene where the candidate for governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre, was ambushed by unidentified gunmen near the city of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Monday June 28, 2010. Gunmen assassinated the front-running candidate and several of his aides in what Mexico's President Felipe Calderon called an attempt by drug gangs to sway local and state elections.

 

[Joann]

CU Temporarily Cancels Mexico Study Abroad Trips

Posted by Wayne Harrison, Web Editor
POSTED: 6:27 pm MDT July 22, 2010


BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado in Boulder has temporarily canceled its study abroad programs in Mexico over concerns of rising cartel violence.

CU's interim provost Russell Moore said Thursday the programs to Jalisco, Monterrey, Oaxaca and Guanajuato were called off and students planning to go were notified of the change last week. The schools says only a handful of students were planning to go to Guadalajara, in Jalisco, and to Guanajuato. No students were planning to study in Oaxaca or Guanajuato in the summer or fall.
The school says it also canceled a field trip into Mexico scheduled this week for students in CU's International and National Voluntary Service Training program.

 

[Joann]

See site for article:

Gunbattles Paralyze Mexican City Across From Texas
Thursday, 22 Jul 2010 10:38 AM

Mexican soldiers fought late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets in a city across the border from Texas.

The Nuevo Laredo city government posted messages on Facebook warning citizens to stay indoors as the battles erupted at several intersections Wednesday night. City officials on Thursday said they could not immediately confirm witness reports that several gunmen were killed.

 

[Joann]

Another report of the 51 bodies found in mass grave site:

51 Corpses Found In Mexico Drug War Dump

 

[Joann]

This article doesn't say copyright, however, will post only link and brief

Rehab clinics turn into killing zones in Mexico's drug war

By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu Jul 22, 5:12 pm ET

CULIACAN, Mexico — As narcotics addiction soars in Mexico , drug rehabilitation centers have become killing zones and recruitment centers in the country's escalating drug war.

 

[Joann]

From NYTimes now less. Murder for hire by inmates of Mexican prison using guards weapons and vehicles. This one is a jaw dropper.

Article doesn't state copyright, however, with all the fuss going on about posting articles and cr issues, will just post the first paragraph and link:

Mexican Officials Say Prisoners Acted as Hit Men

By ELISABETH MALKIN
Published: July 25, 2010

MEXICO CITY — Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards’ weapons and vehicles, officials said Sunday, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison breakouts are common as guards look the other way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

 

[Joann]

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Saturday 7/24/10

El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/23/10

Keeping in touch

Dallas (Notimex) - The office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the placement on the internet of a data base that permits locating detained immigrants under the custody of that agency in any part of the country. The data base, called ODLS, is a search tool similar to that used by the Office of Federal Prisons. Those interested in locating a certain detainee can reach the ICE internet site to search by name or by designated alien number.

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFi...cId=275758&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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El Debate (Sinaloa state) 7/23/10

Body search pays off

Two women arriving by air from Culiacan, Sinaloa, to Tijuana, Baja California, when questioned about their reason for the trip, gave contradictory statements to Federal Police and were held for further interrogation. As the questioning continued, the women declared that they were carrying drugs in their genital areas and needed to remove them because of a strong odor they were causing. The police immediately turned them over to medical personnel who discovered that each had a packet inserted containing about a pound of heroin. The total amount of their smuggling venture was estimated at 950 grams.

http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloPrimera.asp?IdArt=10051428&IdCat=6087

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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) And El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 7/23/10

Explosives seized in Chihuahua

The Mexican Army seized 26 kilos of Tovex explosive and nearly a kilo of Detagel explosive after two shootouts in Simona, Chihuahua, in which nine gangsters were killed and another six arrested, according to official sources. The Army also seized 15 "automatic" rifles, rolls of detonation cable, 10 vehicles and other equipment. The Tovex was in 50 [or 62, depending on the report] "sausages" similar to that used in the recent car bombing in Ciudad Juarez. The explosives are used in Mexican mining operations as well.

http://www.informador.com.mx/primera/2010/220345/6/decomisan-explosivos-en-chihuahua.htm

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1718922.htm

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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 7/23/10

Costa Rica joins petition against Arizona law

San Jose, Costa Rica - Costa Rica joined the petition presented by the coalition of civil organizations in the US against the Arizona immigration law that criminalizes the undocumented, thus also lending its voice to those of Mexico and other Latin American countries. "Costa Rica, true to its tradition of promotion and defense of human rights has added its voice against the discrimination of those immigrants in the United States," stressed the Costa Rican Chancellery in a communique.

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1718918.htm

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Sunday 7/25/10

El Debate (Sinaloa state) 7/24/10

Border Patrol confiscates more drugs

Mexico - Within a period of six days, 14 to 20 July, a total of 3,150 kilos of marihuana was seized by US border agents. Narciso Ramos, spokesman for the US Border Patrol in the Laredo [Texas] Sector, advised that the increase in seizures occurred in different areas patrolled by the agents and at the ports of entry. The value of the seized drug is estimated to be 5.6 million dollars. However, even though the seizures increased, the arrests were minimal since a large part of the drugs were abandoned near the Rio Grande. "The efforts of the agents paid off with the seizure of the drugs. In six days, an impressive amount of marihuana was seized that was destined to the streets of our city and the rest of the country," Ramos said.

http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10056249&IdCat=6087

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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 7/24/10

Protests in Guatemala continue

Guatemala [population roughly that of IL] registers an average of 18 violent murders per day, placing it as one of the most dangerous Latin American countries. For the past several days, hundreds of Guatemalans have carried out demonstrations on the streets of the capital to protest the violence and to denounce the inability and failure of the government of President Alvaro Colom in matters of security. The protests emphasize the increasing criminal activities that are overwhelming the people. "We should not become accustomed to seeing the deaths of our countrymen as being a common occurrence," asserted Anabella Palomo, a leader of the protest group. Regarding the passive actions of the government, she said that "no more analysis or studies of the problem are necessary ...the situation is so critical that it demands immediate and effective action."

http://www.informador.com.mx/intern...s-noticias+(El+Informador+-+Ultimas+Noticias)

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La Jornada (Mexico City) 7/24/10

New narco tactics resemble terrorism: COLEF expert

Tijuana, Baja California - The drug cartels have challenged the government of Mexico more than ever this year with indiscriminate attacks that left dozens of people dead, the assassination of a candidate for governor, the use of a car bomb in Ciudad Juarez and people hanging from bridges in Tijuana and Cuernavaca, among other cities. "The purpose of these types of attacks is precisely to generate terror in people at the social level and this strikes at the soul of the citizenry and generates a hardness of the State," affirmed Vicente Sanchez Munguia, a researcher at the Northern Border College (COLEF). Although the government has rejected that there is "narcoterrorism," Sanchez Munguia, a specialist in security and public administration, assured that the escalation of violence on the northern border signifies "a qualitative leap" that resembles "terrorism." He stated that, "I believe as a society and a government we should have some clear idea in the sense that we are reaching unprecedented situations that put us at high risk."

The authorities, on the other hand, refuse to speak of terrorism and maintain that the reaction of the criminal organizations is only due to them beginning to feel cornered. "I believe that, beyond the discussions over adjectives and words, we have to worry about interpreting the reality and about confronting it with solutions," Sanchez Munguia said. He takes issue with the government's position that organized crime is suffering such harassment by federal forces that the criminals have taken a step backward from direct confrontation and now prefer to carry out their violence at a distance. Another observation he makes are the messages left on walls banners and bodies of victims that indicate the impunity the narcos feel. "Before, it was said that they were messages to their rivals, but now they are to the State, saying 'here I am and no one can do anything to me.' This kind of message gives many the impression that there is a lack of authority. It's a direct challenge to the institutions."

Sanchez Munguia concludes, "It is said that installing a car bomb is imitating the terrorists, but my perception is otherwise: they are not imitating, they are evolving, which speaks to the necessity for the police agencies to strengthen themselves with intelligence and technology in order to try to counteract the effects that evidently make us think that those groups are overcoming the authorities."

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/...cciones-de-los-narcos-asemejan-al-terrorismo/

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Monday 7/26/10

El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/25/10

"Hate crimes against migrants increase 20% each year"

Each year the number of hate crimes against migrants committed by racist groups in the US along the border with Mexico increases by 20%, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The groups include neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Border Guardians and Minutemen. According to the SPLC, neo-Nazis and KKK are mainly on the Texas border. According to its study, the SPLC determined that there are at least 602 racist groups, also called migrant hunters, along the US-Mexico border. Arizona has the greatest number of attacks against Mexican and Central American migrants, most carried out by ranchers calling themselves Border Guardians and who have connections with the neo-Nazis and the KKK. Enrique Morones Careaga, advisor of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME) and director of the Angels of the Border organization, affirmed that anti-immigrant laws like Arizona's SB 1070 give "power and even permission to those groups of migrant hunters to attack the undocumented."

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFi...cId=275939&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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El Liberal (Popayan, Colombia) 7/25/10

Bad news for sniffers

A technical investigative team (CTI) and Colombian Army troops made a surprise visit to one of the largest cocaine manufacturing laboratories in the department [state] of Cauca. The government forces destroyed the factory that was capable of producing three tons of cocaine weekly.

http://www.elliberal.com.co/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31993&Itemid=82

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elsalvador.com (El Salvador) 7/25/10

Archbishop of San Salvador preaches for US migratory reform

During his sermon Sunday, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, advocated for advancing the process for migratory reform in the US for the benefit of all the migrants residing illegally in that country. Also, during his morning prayer, he asked for the repeal of the Arizona law, which he considers threatens the stability of the people.

http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/popup/popDetalleUhora.asp?id=38110&sin=NOWEBCACHE

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[Joann]

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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia) 7-26-10

Mexican Government still under suspicion

After more than half a century, the Mexican Government is still suspected of not returning a percentage of Bracero wages.

From 1942 to 1964, Mexicans worked in the United States under the Bracero Program. The U.S. Government withheld a percentage of their wages in a savings account that was never repaid. Nearly 4.5 million Mexicans participated in the program. The North American Government withheld 10 percent of the fieldworker wages, which were guaranteed savings for the workers, and transferred the funds to the Banco de Credito Agricola de Mexico, which changed to Banrural and today is known as Financiera Rural.

The problem is that none of the funds were paid out to the former migratory workers and the government never assumed the obligation to make the pay out. Years later, under pressure of organizations representing the ex-Braceros, on April 28, 2005, a law was created to help the former Braceros.

The law required advertisement in the Official Publication of the Federation until 2008 in order to start irregular payments (to the Braceros).

The decision was to pay every Bracero (or surviving family member) a sum of 38,000 pesos. The problem is that funds have not been allocated and as of now there are not sufficient resources to pay, and thousands have received only partial payment.

Months of registration of claims involving deceased and aged claimants have resulted in a logistical nightmare.

According to the organization Braceroproa, every 70 minutes a former Bracero or his widow dies, every 24 hours 17 die and at least 500 die every month. Since January of this year more than 8,000 have passed on.

The government first decided to make an initial payment of 4,000 pesos to each former Bracero but under pressure from organizations changed the law last May to allow payment of 38,000 pesos to the recipients in one lump sum. Braceroproa reports that since March, 39,000 ex-Braceros have received full payment, and some 80,000 to 90,000 have received the partial payment of 4,000 pesos and are waiting for the full payment of 38,000 pesos.

http://www.cambiodemichoacan.com.mx/vernota.php?id=130173

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Correo (Leon, Guanajuato) 7-26-10

Convicts commit murders in Torreon

Mexico, D.F. – The Federal Government revealed that inmates in the Cereso (prison) in Gomez Palacio, Durango, were allowed by authorities to leave the prison to commit murders. The inmates were permitted to use weapons and automobiles owned by the government.

In an official statement issued by the Attorney General’s Office, spokesman Ricardo Najera said that prison management is responsible for the crimes perpetrated during the last few months in Torreon, Coahuila, such as the one which occurred on the 18th of July on a farm in which 17 people died.

According to information available, Prison Director Margarita Rojas allowed the inmates to leave at night to commit the crimes.

“She permitted the inmates to leave the prison and to use official weapons and vehicles of the guards to commit the murders. The criminals committed the executions as an adjustment of accounts against members of rival gangs and murdered innocent civilians in the process,” according to Najera.

http://correo-gto.com.mx/notas.asp?id=173756

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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 7-26-10

Eleven murdered in less than ten hours

Culiacan, Sinaloa - In less then 10 hours, 11 people have been murdered in Sinaloa. Four of them were in Navolato, five in Culiacan, one in Guasave and another in the town of Salvador Alvarado.

Three men and one woman were found murdered on the road to El Castillo in Navolato.

In Culiacan, a burned vehicle that contained four bodies of gunshot victims was found in canal Humaya.

In Guasave, a body with a gunshot to the head was found on the bank of a drain one kilometer from the International Highway.

In Guamuchil, the body of a man with a gunshot to the head was found on a road near the village of Laguna de Palos Blancos.

http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloPrimera
.asp?IdArt=10059272&IdCat=6087

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Other lead stories in El Debate

Three burned bodies found in Morelos
Floods affect 10 cities in Chiapas
Police attacked in N.L., one dead
Drug distributor detained
Two with more than 100 gunshot wounds murdered in la Campina
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El Diario de Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 7-26-10

Federal police on red alert

Agents of the Federal Police stationed in Juarez are on Red Alert after arresting several leaders of “La Linea” during the last several hours.

Late Saturday night and early yesterday morning two groups of officers were attacked with gunfire in separate incidents. In one instance, five civilians were arrested and three of them were wounded. In another incident, one policeman was wounded when they tried to stop a vehicle containing some civilians who then fired on them. Two women and one man were wounded and arrested. The driver escaped.

This weekend, narcotics trafficker, Luis Carlos Vazques Barragan, was arrested. He is known as “El 20” and is accused of being the treasurer of “La Linea” and believed to be responsible for ordering the executions of members of rival criminal organizations.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=3da0df5162ea98576cd0c6ba37ce3acb

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[Joann]

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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, B.C.) 7-27-10

Mexicali – Several people linked to a human smuggling operation were captured after U.S. Border Patrol Agents tracked them to a house in Imperial, California and found undocumented people inside. They arrested eight undocumented migrants, including a woman from Mexicali and 7 men.

The Border Patrol reported that they arrested a man and wife from Los Angeles, a man and a woman from Holtville, CA, another man and woman from Calexico and a woman from Mexicali involved in the network.

The group was transporting (aliens) from Mexicali to Los Angeles for a fee of 2,500 to 4,000 dollars each.

Initially, Agents stopped a vehicle with 15 migrants in it on Neckel Road north of the Imperial Airport and developed intelligence that led them to the house in Imperial where they made more arrests. The group was smuggling up to 200 people a year to Los Angeles. Agents also seized a .357 Magnum.

http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1721978.htm

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Four migrants exposed to desert heat: One dies

Mexicali, B.C. – A group of four migrants launched on a venture to cross illegally into the United States near El Centinela (Mt. Signal) west of Mexicali. For one, it was not a stroke of good luck and he lost his life. Two more were rescued by Grupo Beta and a fourth made it into the neighboring country and alerted the authorities and a joint effort was launched to rescue the survivors. A native of Oaxaca, whose body remains on the U.S. side, died and one from San Luis Potosi was arrested by the Border Patrol and deported to Mexico. The remaining two survivors remain unidentified. The group ranged from 20 to 30 years of age.

http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1723267.htm

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Nine tons of “mota” seized

San Luis, R.C., Sonora – Mexican military found 846 packages of a substance believed to be marijuana hidden in a tanker truck originally from Puerto Penasco destined to Mexicali. Members of the Mexican Army inspected the truck and found that it contained 9.1 metric tons.

http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1720919.htm

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Residents of Calexico found murdered in Mexicali

Mexicali – Thanks to investigative efforts of the State Attorney General’s office, identification of two bodies found in a clandestine dump last Friday has been accomplished. They had been literally beaten to death. The family of the two brothers identified them as Rolando Castro, 25, and Joel Castro, 27. They were transporters of merchandise.

The bodies had been found in the open with their heads covered in black plastic.

http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1720918.htm

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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 7-27-10

All 51 bodies autopsied

Monterrey, N. L. – The Attorney General of Nuevo Leon, Alejandro Garza Garza announced today that it is still possible to autopsy all 51 bodies found in a clandestine dump in the town of Conurbado de Juarez. The government official said that they may find yet more bodies. “It is possible to autopsy every body and to take photographs,” he said. “It is yet practicable to get a height, complexion, clothing description, and a tattoo description of every one,” he indicated.

“Some died of suffocation, others from being beaten. There were profound contusions about the heads and abdomens,” he explained.

http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=521599

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El Diario De Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 7-27-10

Six human heads found in different locations in Durango

Durango, Dgo. – In this capital city, six heads were found in three locations in less than an hour. At 7:00 this morning the first two heads were found on a bridge over the Durango-Mexico Highway. At 7:30, two more heads were reported on the highway to Parral near the village of La Tinaja. A half hour later two more heads were located on the road to Mazatlan.

In all the cases, messages were left with the heads.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=e4fdb7c83e524b39738
aeb0eb5a4d39b

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El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 7-27-10

The Secretary of Labor of the United States visits to talk of social justice

Managua – The Secretary of labor of the United States, Hilda Solis, arrived in Managua today to speak about a program to improve labor relations and competition in the supply chain, especially in the textile industry.

Solis, the first Latina presidential cabinet member in the history of the United States was born in the United States from a Mexican father and a Nicaraguan mother. She will be interviewed during her three day stay concerning her Nicaraguan blood.

The ambassador of the United States in Nicaragua, Robert Callahan, recently announced that Hilda Solis will visit the Provence of Jinotega, whence her mother originated and where family members still reside. The diplomat announced that Solis will participate in a march to eradicate juvenile labor and that Nicaragua can count on help from Washington.

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/79758

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[Joann]

AP Impact: Mexico justice means catch and release

By JULIE WATSON and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press Writers The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:01 AM EDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — It's practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, however, about three-quarters of them are let go.

Even as President Felipe Calderon's government touts its arrest record, cases built by prosecutors and police under huge pressure to make swift captures unravel from lack of evidence. Innocent people are tortured into confessing. The guilty are set free, only to be hauled in again for other crimes. Sometimes, the drug cartels decide who gets arrested.

http://charter.net/news/read.php?rip_id=<D9H7J4JG0@news.ap.org>&ps=1018

Very good article spread over six short pages need to view at site.

 

[Joann]

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Thursday, 7/29/10

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 7/27/10

Large Mexican union calls for boycott of U.S. products and breaking of diplomatic relations

Just prior to Arizona Law SB1070 going into effect, Mexico’s National Confederation of Social, Field Workers and Communal Farms Organizations announced a boycott of U.S. origin products. At a press conference, Sergio de Alba Avila, the organization’s president, stated that he will demand the Mexican government to break diplomatic relations with the United States if that anti-immigrant law goes into effect.

After defining his confederation as a center-left group, he added that its members will distribute lists in self service and department stores identifying U.S. products so that customers will not buy them. He also stated that they intend to mount a cybernetic protest by having internet users flood the state of Arizona’s web pages with messages against the law in question. They will also be sending electronic messages to the governor of the state of Arizona, as well as congressmen, senators and to the U.S. president.

He added that they will ask the Mexican Chancellor (Sec. of State,) Patricia Espinosa, to harden the Mexican government’s policy against the referenced law and, if necessary, to break relations with the United States if that law is applied against fellow nationals. Further, that they might join protest actions being called for by other groups of migrants, such as the blockage of international crossing points, among others.

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=74633ef67414b3d0f86095354dc61d9b

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Further increase in Mexico’s organized crime violence foreseen

The president of the Human Rights Commission of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies (House of Reps.,) Ruben Moreira, warned that if the federal government continues with the same tactics against organized crime, the year will end up with 16,000 dead. At the start of the current administration the tally was 100 a month. Moreira also added that “Today we have a security problem such as we’ve never had during the last 70 years.”

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=cfd56217f14fc45e837254d8ecd15e3a

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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 7/28/10

Smuggled aliens found in Mexico

Eight men from Bangladesh were found by Mexican federal police in the false double bottom of a tractor trailer in Chiapas. A further search in the truck’s cabin turned up two Cubans who admitted they were heading to the United States. The driver and his assistant, both Mexican, were arrested. (The article does not specify when this took place and only gives a kilometer marking on the Pan Am highway for the location of the event.)

http://noticias.cuarto-poder.com.mx/4p_apps/periodico/pag.php?MTE2MDI2

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/28/10

“Migration is not subject to a document or a law”

The governor of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, Juan Manuel Oliva, is also the head of the Migratory Affairs Commission of Mexico’s National Conference of Governors. At a press conference, he stated that, “We are awaiting the decision of the United States courts to invalidate Law SB1070, which criminalizes undocumented migration in Arizona.” He added that the law violates the migrants’ human rights, something inconceivable in a nation founded by immigrants. He was therefore very pleased that individuals and organizations had filed legal challenges against the law, though he acknowledged the right of the United States to decide upon its own laws. He also recalled the speech by President Barack Obama “in the sense that migration is not subject to a document or a law, but to the loyalty that migrants might have toward the receiving country.”

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFi...cId=276437&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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Poverty increasing and education not keeping pace in Mexico

Every year, 445,000 youths abandon high school in Mexico due to poverty and violence, while another 1,144,000 more don’t even reach that educational level to begin with, and as a result, they enlarge the ranks of child labor including sexual exploitation, according to Mario Luis Fuentes, director general of CEIDAS, the Center for Studies and Investigation in Development and Social Assistance. Fuentes added that the number of Mexico’s poor has increased by 11 million from 2006 to date, and now totals 56 million.

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFi...cId=276435&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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El Universal (Mexico City) 7/278/10

Mexico’s criminal cartels now ranked 3rd in the world

In the last three years the presence of Mexican cartels has increased 735% in the black lists kept by the United States, Canada, the European Union and Asia. This growth has now made Mexico’s criminal groups the third most important in the world, above similar groups in Italy and Colombia and behind only Russian and Chinese mafias. The information comes from Edgardo Buscaglia, a member of Mexico’s Institute of Technology in Mexico City, who added that Mexican cartels are really criminal groups that include portions of the Mexican government, portions of the Mexican legal structure and portions of the Mexican armed forces.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/698129.html

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 7/28/10

Police chief murdered

The chief of the Ministerial Police in Rosarito, Baja Calif. (just south of Tijuana,) and another ministerial police agent were sitting in the chief’s vehicle in front of the police facility on Tuesday night when armed subjects arrived in another vehicle and “emptied their rifles” at the two and then fled. The police chief died and the other agent was wounded and taken to a hospital in Tijuana.

One reader commented: “And as usual, the criminals fled and no one knows their whereabouts. It seems to be another settling of accounts among CRIMINALS, like the thousands that take place monthly in this country.”

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/28072010/460515.aspx

(The item shown below relates to this event)

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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 7/28/10

Police chief’s execution believed probably linked to people trafficking

Rommel Moreno, the Baja California State Att’y. General, said that the execution of the chief of the Ministerial Police in Rosarito is probably due to traffic of undocumented persons. Several undocumented in the area were arrested two hours prior to the execution of the police chief.

http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/28072010/460598.aspx

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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 7/28/10

More police assassinated

Three Mexican federal police agents stopped a tractor trailer for a routine check on the Puebla-Orizaba highway (southeast of Mexico City), but then two other vehicles came up and their occupants, some ten subjects, opened fire with high power weapons and killed all three police agents. The tractor trailer and the thugs fled, but left behind one of their vehicles, a Cadillac Escalade.

http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=521782

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[Joann]

Can't believe this came from an LA paper ...

Police find eight severed heads in northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Officials say the severed heads of eight men were found left in pairs along highways in the northern Mexico state of Durango.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that the bodies haven't been located, but officials say the victims appear to have been between ages 25 and 30.

Fair use for discussion only please go to site for details.
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_15616671

 

[Joann]

Good news for a change ...

These reports are from Stratfor a fee base sub that I pay for, however, you can have the reports sent to you at site, or just google.

Mexico: Federal Police Rescue 2 Cameramen
July 31, 2010 2109 GMT
Mexican federal police rescued two kidnapped cameramen July 31, five days after they were...

Mexico: The Death of a Cartel Leader
July 30, 2010 1636 GMT
A leading member of the Mexican drug trafficking organization the Sinaloa Federation has died in a government raid.

 

[Joann]

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Some opinions regarding the Arizona Law decision


Friday, 7/30/10

(Note: U.S. District Judge Bolton’s decision in the AZ Law case was prominently featured in Central and South American newspapers and practically dominated press coverage in Mexico. In lieu of repeating these reports, we offer the following op/col by Mexican syndicated writer Sergio Sarmiento, whose works appear in 22 papers. The column is titled as shown below.)

Aliens

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation revealed some days ago that 55% of U.S. citizens are in favor of Arizona Law SB1070 despite acknowledging that it will generate acts of discrimination. Only 40% oppose it. Many Mexicans have begun to tear their hair due to the law. The truth, nevertheless, is that we Mexicans discriminate more against aliens than do the Americans.

There are few studies about the attitude of Mexicans toward aliens. A poll by the Strategic Communications Cabinet in October 2009 pointed out that 38.1% of Mexicans consider that the number of aliens who live in the country is very high, versus 37.7% who say otherwise. What is surprising is that only 0.5% of the country’s residents were born abroad, a very small number. On the other hand, 12.6% of the population of the U.S. was born outside the country. It seems incredible that someone could suppose that there are too many aliens in Mexico.

If we speak about the rights of immigrants, 65.9% of Mexicans polled think that aliens don’t have any right to criticize what occurs in the country.

Granted that we Mexicans think that we are very tolerant, the minute percentage of the population born in other countries ought to alert us about our error. In Mexico there is an attitude of mistrust which at times becomes an open disdain toward aliens: Americans, Spaniards, Argentines, Chileans, Lebanese, Jews, Africans. We have immigration rules that would be unacceptable in almost any place of the world, such as the one that obligates an immigrant to live economically dependent of their Mexican spouse, instead of promoting their participation in the labor market. Equally discriminatory is the law that places a limit on the number of aliens that a firm may hire. Aliens are also forbidden to buy real estate on the border or on Mexico’s coasts (while Mexicans have invested tens of millions of dollars in U.S. properties.)

Social and racial discrimination is evident in the case of Central American and black immigrants. The difficulties for a technician or alien worker to obtain residence in Mexico are enormous no matter the benefits their work might have. On the other hand, the law provides that the penalty for the loss of employment by an alien is the immediate expulsion from the country, as if losing a job were a crime.

For decades, Mexicans whose father or mother was born outside the country could not be Presidents of the country. Granted that the restrictive legislation we had has been modified to allow for dual citizenship, Mexicans who have it are not allowed to occupy relevant public charges or have certain jobs, such as commercial aircraft pilot. Worst of all is that international studies show that migration, instead of depriving locals from employment, produces economic growth and prosperity for all.

Perhaps one could blame xenophobic attitudes on ignorance. However, what we can’t do is to question the United States about its laws when we have much more restrictive legislation that has resulted in the number of aliens in our country being one of the lowest in the world.

The temporary and partial suspension of some parts of Arizona Law SB1070 will not resolve the problem of the Mexican migrants. The only real solution is very simple. Let us make the necessary in depth economic reforms to allow us to be more productive. One of those reforms is to open our labor market instead of keeping it tied up with laws worse than those of the United States.

http://www.am.com.mx/Columna.aspx?ID=8559

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Critica (Hermosillo, Sonora) 7/29/10

Jan Brewer, “persona non grata”

Mexico’s National Chamber of Commerce has asked the congress of the state of Sonora to declare Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer as “persona non grata” due to the AZ Law SB1070.

http://www.critica.com.mx/vernoticias.php?artid=27175&mas=2

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La Hora (Quito, Ecuador) 7/28/10

Ecuador still concerned about Arizona law

Despite Judge Bolton’s ruling blocking certain key portions of the Arizona law, the government of Ecuador today expressed its concern that the intent to criminalize immigrants persists in the United States. In a communiqué, the Ecuadoran Chancery appealed to the sensitivity of American authorities so that a “just and integral” migratory reform may be brought about. According to Ecuadoran officials, that reform must attend to “the clamor of the immigrant community that lives in the United States from some years back, that contributes to the economy of that country and that desires to resolve its migratory status.”

Referring to Judge Bolton’s decision, the Chancery points out that the Arizona law “has not been declared unconstitutional, for which reason it will go into effect this Thursday, July 29.” Likewise, the Chancery reiterated its unrestricted commitment to the defense and protection of the rights of Ecuadoran immigrants in the United States.

http://www.lahora.com.ec/index.php/noticias/show/994509/1/
Pese_a_bloqueo_partes_claves2C_Ecuador_expresa_preocupaci%C3%B3n_por_ley_de_Arizona.html

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“Palanquero” [Full transl. of op/col. by Jorge Oviedo Rueda, titled as shown]

Have you, friend reader, heard this name? Perhaps not, but you must remember it because in a short time it may be sadly famous.

It is a North American military base found on Colombian territory. The Pentagon considers it necessary to conduct “wide spectrum” operations in the South American continent, and a support facility to combat the region’s anti-American governments. No free conscience in the world swallows the tale about the combat against the narco-guerilla. Behind that lie is the blind defense of American geo-politics, which cares nothing about the sovereignty of the peoples.

In October of 2009 Colombia and the U.S. signed an accord which permits the Yankees to occupy seven military bases and the use of Colombian territory for its operations. From Palanquero, almost half the continent can be reached by a C-17 without need of resupply; a Yankee Air Force document reveals that Palanquero can be used to carry out intelligence, reconnaissance and espionage operations. The procedures are not new; it’s the old strategy of continental domination maintained by the North Americans since the 19th Century.

The scenarios are new, and the correlation of political forces at the continental level is different. There are governments critical of the North American power. Efforts are being made to design a continental policy for the defense of our sovereignty and our resources. This new attempt to bring to reality the ideas of Bolivar keeps being attacked by the Yankees. For them anything goes. Internal subversion, political destabilization, lies, blackmail, military aggression from Palanquero, it’s all valid. It won’t matter to them if a new genocide begins there. The empire will close its atomic fist, if it deems it necessary.

http://www.lahora.com.ec/index.php/noticias/show/994069

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El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 7/29/10

“Migration to the United States will not stop”

Martha Cranshaw, a specialist from the Nicaraguan Web of the Migrations Civil Society, commented about the AZ law (prior to the decision by US District Court Judge Bolton) and stated that the AZ law represents a window to xenophobia and that it is not the answer to the entry of undocumented persons, because the detentions will increase but the migration to the United States will not stop.

She also commented that a domino effect of the AZ law in other states could affect the Nicaraguan community, composed of not less than 400,000 persons, and that Nicaragua does not have the economic capacity to absorb them.

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/79882

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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 7/28/10

They keep leaving Honduras

The number of Hondurans deported back to their country from the U.S. and Mexico in the last 13 years is about to reach half a million persons. According to the country’s Chancery, the actual number is 480,578, and it covers those deported from 1997 to July 15 of this year. Though each of the yearly numbers was generally less than 5,000 up until the year 2001, they began to increase and reached 83,085 in 2005. This year’s partial figure is 28,110. Although the precise number was not released, it also includes more than 1,000 minors, many of whom travel alone.

http://www.elheraldo.hn/País/Ediciones/2010/07/28/Noticias/
Casi-medio-millon-de-deportados-en-13-anos

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El Salvador.com (San Salvador, El Salvador) 7/28/10

Thousands of Salvadoran deportees had criminal records

El Salvador’s Vice Minister for Salvadorans Abroad, Juan Jose Garcia, said that there was a 5% drop in the number of Salvadorans deported back to their country in June of this year in comparison with the equivalent month of 2009. However, the number of deportees returning by land increased 23% overall last year. Of the 11,481 Salvadorans deported from the United States so far this year, 4,590 had committed one or more crimes in the United States.

http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=15873&idArt=5005713

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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 7/29/10

Ciudad Juarez, true to its fame

(The following is the first paragraph of a news item buried among a listing of others in the local news section) “Seven persons were assassinated yesterday afternoon in this city, and during the morning another four individuals were deprived of their lives, therefore 11 persons died at the hands of organized crime.”

http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=ec80d6d66b8f90632ae57ba631e8bee5

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/29/10

Report: thousands of unaccompanied Mexican minors illegally in Arizona

Mexico’s Dep’t. of Foreign Relations reported that, between January and June of this year, 4,047 unaccompanied Mexican minors who were in the U.S. “without legal documentation” were deported to Mexico from Arizona. Also, that between 400,000 and 530,000 Mexicans could be living in Arizona without documents.

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/cfpages
/contentmgr.cfmdocId=276787&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sort
by=ASC

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 7/29/10

Mass arrests of police officers in Tijuana

An apparently preliminary report reveals that “more than” 50 police officers of various agencies in Tijuana were arrested between Wednesday night and this morning (Thurs.) Specific numbers and charges were not stated.

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/290720
10/460786.aspx

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[Joann]

Juarez 2010 death toll reaches 1,700

by Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Posted: 08/01/2010 11:16:39 AM MDT

Fifteen people were killed in the Juárez region on Saturday, bringing the year's total to date to 1,700.

This means an average of 242 people were murdered in the border city each month since January.

Mexican authorities reported 290 slayings in July, including 25 girls and women.

Diana Washington Valdez may be reached at dvaldez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6140. http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_15651286