Mexican Indigenous Tribes: The New Mules of Drug Trafficking Organizations - the Raramuri

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Eliminate root causes of violence to "manage" drug cartels | Baker Institute Blog | a Chron.com blog

"Earlier this month, the Mexican navy announced the death of Heriberto
Lazcano, the leader of Mexico's violent Zetas drug cartel, during a

Recent Developments in Mexico under Felipe Calderon as of 24 September 2012

Click Here - IITrends - Incidents, Issues and Trends: Recent Developments in Mexico under Felipe Caldero...:   Recent Developments in Mexico under Felipe Calderon as of 24Sep12- Council on Foreign Relations There’s been a lack of significant media ...

How to Subvert the Mexican Drug Cartels Michoacán Style- Turning the Insurgent Center of Gravity into a Community Center of Gravity

 

Another Counter Cartel/Criminal Community Emerges

It began in Cheran in 2011when the indigenous population dissolved their local government for its inability to establish a safe and secure environment for its people. One year later, crime went down and the people established a safe and secure environment for its own people. Now in a town approximately 8 miles

The Treatment of Americans in Mexican Prisons

The Treatment of Americans in Mexican Prisons
BORDERLAND BEAT | SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
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Chivis Martinez Borderland BeatJulio and Tony Americans serving time in a Mexico City prisonYou may have read Vato's post ... Read more

Julio and Tony Americans serving time in a Mexico City prison

You may have read Vato's post regarding the complaints of Narcos in American prisons, now we take a look at how Americans are treated in Mexican prisons. It doesn't differ much from the treatment of Mexicans in Mexican prisons,  however the distinction is critical, Americans are targets by all other prisoners,  as it is thought they have money to steal. 

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Something is Broken: Mexican Justice

Something is Broken: Mexican Justice
BORDERLAND BEAT | SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
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Corruption: A look at a Meeting Between a Mexican Mayor and LFM

Corruption: A look at a Meeting Between a Mexican Mayor and LFM
BORDERLAND BEAT | OCTOBER 2, 2012
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Mexican Prisons Controlled by Prisoners - Insightcrime.org

Inmates Control 60% of Mexican Prisons: Report

Prisoners in a Mexican jail

“Inmates are in control of some 60 percent of Mexico's prisons, according to a report by the government human rights body, whose details help explain how some 130 inmates were able to escape from one facility earlier this month.

The 2011 report on Mexican prisons by the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) found that 60 percent of the country's corrective facilities were under the control of criminal groups, El Informador reported.”

Thoughts:

• Why do prison inmates control 60% of Mexico’s prisons?
• Does this small snapshot serve as an indicator of how much of Mexico is controlled by criminals? For example is 60%, or more, of Mexico proper under the same kind of stress whereby many known criminals, cartel and gang members run free?
• What are the drivers that contribute to such a high number strength?
• How strong is the law in Mexico, and how effective can the state contain such forms of potential widespread social instability?

Read full article here:  http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/inmates-control-mexican-prisons

Written by Victoria Rossi and Hannah Stone

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Mexican vet standoff

Citing fears of drug violence along the border, Texas-based veterinarians are balking at orders to staff a new cattle inspection facility in Mexico, near the Columbia International Bridge.

www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Citing-drug-violence-veterinarians-resist-orders-3866986.php

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Hackers attack Mexican government sites

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Mexican hackers have taken over more than a dozen websites belonging to political parties and local governments and posted a message criticizing the government on the nation's Independence Day.

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US Targets Mexican Oil Company Linked to Drug Cartel - By Joao Peixe | Thu, 30 August 2012 23:57

If true, then this serves an example of how the Mexican Drug Cartels are
subverting the legitimate economy.

US companies and individuals have been prohibited from doing
business with Mexican oil company ADT Petroservicios and the company's US
assets have been frozen due to owner Francisco Antonio Colorado Cessa's
links to the Los Zetas drug-trafficking cartel."

Read More:
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Targets-Mexican-Oil-Com
pany-Linked-to-Drug-Cartel.html?

FBI - Two Leaders of Baltimore Drug Ring Exiled to 45 Years in Prison - Los Zetas

August 28, 2012

District of Maryland

(410) 209-4800

BALTIMORE-U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Wade Coats,
age 47, of Baltimore, and Jose Cavazos, age 44, of Midlothian, Texas, today
each to 45 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for
conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Coats was also
sentenced for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking
crime.

...

"A substantial portion of the illegal drugs distributed in Maryland are
imported from the Mexican border," said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
"This case demonstrates the international ties of a local drug dealer."

According to evidence presented at the five-day jury trial, from 2005 to
February 2010, Coats and his co-defendant James Bostic, age 41, of
Baltimore, Maryland, received cocaine and marijuana from the Los Zetas
Mexican Drug Cartel, which he and other conspirators distributed. From 2005
to April 28, 2009 Cavazos would receive 20-25 kilograms of cocaine from the
cartel twice a month for delivery to Coats. Cavazos or his employees would
drive the cocaine to Baltimore.

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http://www.fbi.gov/baltimore/press-releases/2012/two-leaders-of-baltimore-dr
ug-ring-exiled-to-45-years-in-prison

Mexico extradites alleged drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix to US - The Washington Post

Mexico extradites alleged drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix to US

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, August 31, 8:38 PM

"SAN DIEGO - Mexico extradited Eduardo Arellano-Felix to the United States
Friday, marking what one U.S. official said was the end of a 20-year
investigation into the once-mighty drug cartel headed by his older brother.

Arellano Felix, 55, arrived in the United States and will make an initial
court appearance Tuesday in San Diego on charges of narcotics trafficking,
racketeering and money laundering, said Laura Duffy, the U.S. attorney in
San Diego, who built her career on the case."

Full Article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mexico-extradites-alleged-drug-cartel
-leader-eduardo-arellano-felix-to-us/2012/08/31/551f8ee4-f3cd-11e1-b74c-84ed
55e0300b_story.html

Public Event: The New Mexican Government and Its Prospects 27Sep12 Washington DC

The New Mexican Government and Its Prospects
September 27, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, United States
Open to the General Public

Details coming soon.

Partners: George Washington University Center for Latin American Issues,
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

Links and Contacts

Email Point of Contact: john.d.colwell.mil@mail.mil

Please note that all colloquia require RSVP.

Question- When did the Drug War Begin in Mexico? Answer – About 100 Years Ago

 

The First North American Drug Traffickers - Chinese Immigrants

The US Coast Guard recognizes Chinese Immigrants as the first recognized drug smugglers dating back to the 1870s. They were the first to develop sophisticated maritime drug trafficking networks for cocaine, heroin and opium into the US. One of the US Border Patrol’s first missions (1885) was not to focus on illegal Mexican immigration, but on illegal Chinese immigration coming in from Mexico.

The Drug Zones of Yesteryear are the Drug Zones of Today

Chinese immigrants who arrived in Mexico during the 1910s and the 1920s served as railroad workers. Some of these immigrants, however, decided to make money through illicit means.  It was also during this time some of these immigrants grew and distributed opium. Chinese immigrants formed “Tong” gangs to run the first  drug trade in Mexico. Poppy was often grown in the Sinaloa region of Mexico; Sinaloa being the home of today’s infamous Sinaloa Cartel. Ciudad Juarez, another area known for its recent high volume of drug cartel hub activity today, was a hub for heroin as far back as the 1930s. Ignacia Jasso Gonzalez, known in history as La Nacha, reportedly left the state of Durango, to Ciudad Juarez to make money after the Mexican Revolution around the 1920s. Envious of the Chinese successes in illicit trade, she and her husband began a propaganda campaign to subvert the Chinese drug traffickers by exploiting ethnic tensions between Mexicans and Chinese over lack of jobs, cultural differences and biases in order to position herself to eventually take over the networks. Matamoros, home turf to today’s Los Zetas, was known for marijuana and other drug trafficking since the 1930s. US Border security and containment to prevent the flow of drugs into the US was a problem all the way back then.

So What?

The takeaway from this little insight is that Mexico’s drug trade and internal drug conflict is not new; it has gone on for about 100 years now. What is new is the intensity and level of violence, its cancerous subversion of local and state mechanisms initially caused by a lack of effective governance. The drug trade filled a void many leaders of Mexico chose to ignore for personal profit or gain-this will be addressed in later postings. The drug culture and way of life is buried deep in the lives of many Mexicans. Any Mexican government or US government response will require much consideration and well-thought action to mitigate the potential for the conflict to go into thermal runaway. That response will understandably take generations to affect, and that response must fill any potential voids the drug trade filled. We are not only talking about eradicating crime, we are also very much talking about changing a culture for a significant number of Mexican citizens.

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BBC News - Mexico judge orders arrest of ex-Governor Yarrington

"A Mexican judge has issued an arrest warrant for a former state governor
for allegedly fomenting drug trafficking.

Tomas Yarrington, who was the governor of the northern state of Tamaulipas
from 1999 until 2005, is suspected of accepting millions of dollars in
bribes from Mexican drug cartels."

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19417715

Report: Guadalajara Represents Mexico's Present, Future Crime Battles

Subject: Report: Guadalajara Represents Mexico's Present, Future Crime
Battles

The report, published in early August (and available here), sees the greater
area of Guadalajara as a microcosm of the rest of the country where various
"tiers" of criminal organizations ally to control this important financial
and residential hub.

Read More:
http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/3107-guadalajara-crime-
jalisco-cartel-southern-pulse

Mexico Shooting: Probe Into U.S. Officials Shooting Reveals Key Details

Note: This news article was written by the author of 'El Narco', Ioan
Grillo.

"The men, traveling with a Mexican Marine captain, were wounded and taken to
a hospital for treatment, though their injuries were not life threatening.
Television footage showed the vehicle strafed with bullet marks, its tires
and rear window shot out.

A dozen federal police officers detained and questioned over the attack have
been ordered held in custody for 40 days, and in initial statements to
federal prosecutors they claimed they confused the Americans for criminals.

However, eyewitnesses at a bend in the road outside the small town of Tres
Marias told Reuters the gunmen were dressed in plain clothes and carried
rifles. They said they pursued the Americans firing from unmarked cars
trying to box them in and on foot -- a classic style of gangland hits in
Mexico.

"We had no idea at all they were police. They looked like criminals," said
one woman who witnessed the incident but asked not to be named for fear of
repercussions."

Read More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/mexico-shooting-probe_n_1840991.htm
l?utm_hp_ref=world

Resource/Recommended Read: Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence 3Aug12

This piece provides readers excellent context, for both novice and experts,
regarding Mexico's Drug War. The author introduces readers to the history
of the drug conflict and its impact on the state from political,
military/security, informational/perceptual, economic, societal and other
realms. The only thing the piece appears to lack are some deeper societal
and cultural impacts the drug has on society, but those can be obtained by
reading other material.

Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising
Violence
June S. Beittel
Analyst in Latin American Affairs
August 3, 2012

Source Link: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41576.pdf

In Mexico, Rehearsing to Inject Drama Into the Courtroom - New York Times

"More open trials, the theory goes, will increase due process and accountability in a country where the much-publicized arrests of cartel bosses are common, but the actual convictions of criminals are not. Fewer than a quarter of crimes in Mexico are reported and over all, just 2 percent result in sentences, according to a 2010 report by the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego."

In Mexico, Rehearsing to Inject Drama Into the Courtroom - New York Times
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Crime Group Suspected in US Ambush in Mexico - Wall Street Journal

"MEXICO CITY—Twelve Mexican federal police were under investigation on Sunday over an ambush that wounded two American diplomats in the hills above the Mexican capital, as suspicions mounted that an organized crime group may have been involved in the attack."

Crime Group Suspected in US Ambush in Mexico - Wall Street Journal
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | AUGUST 26, 2012
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Guadalajara- cartel road blockades

"According to Milenio, the majority of the road blockades took place outside of Guadalajara (see map below showing the municipalities where road blockades were reported). This does suggest that these were highly coordinated actions, either intended to demonstrate the reach of the Jalisco Cartel or to distract the security forces from some other activity, perhaps El Mencho's escape from the area."

Source:  http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/3105-guadalajara-road-blockades-jalisco-cartel

Mexican gangs block roads, torch vehicles in western Mexico - Chicago Tribune

mexico violence - Google News
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Mexican gangs block roads, torch vehicles in western Mexico - Chicago Tribune

Sydney Morning Herald

Mexican gangs block roads, torch vehicles in western Mexico Chicago Tribune MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Armed gangs blocked highways throughout Guadalajara, Mexico's second biggest city, on Saturday and vehicles were set on fire amid a surge in drug-war violence. Police confirmed seven unauthorized roadblocks constructed with ... Mexican gangs block roads, torch vehiclesTVNZ Mexico Police Fire on US Embassy Vehicle in Crime-Patrol AreaBloomberg Mexican police officers shoot two US diplomatsTehran Times Northern Voices Online all 821 news articles »

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Mexico, before and after Calderon's drug war - latimes.com

Looking back, the TBI report suggests that drug-related violence may have begun to surge two years before Calderón took office.

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-mexico-before-and-after-calderns-war-20120823,0,2496010.story

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Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico: Failed Governance and The People’s Rebellion 15 April 2011 to April 2012

Situation

This 18.5 minute video shows what local people did to mitigate organized criminal activities (drug cartel types and lumberjacks) in a small town located in the Mexican state of Michoacan. For three years, people in this small down were murdered, kidnapped, robbed and extorted.

This video is about a group of women who set the conditions for a local rebellion which seized control of their local government to rid their community of organized criminal influence. The video underlines the importance that organized criminal activity can be disrupted if the people band together- yes, it comes with risk.

People of Cheran Revolt

The people of Cheran suffered under heavy organized criminal influence over a three to four year period, then finally had an uprising in 2011 to take back their community.  The church, not the municipal office, served as the foundation for command, control and communication over their community.  From there the locals developed a plan of action to establish security.  The locals then studied how to establish their own form of governance. 

Failed Governance

Ironically, it was the police who helped the criminals rob the people, and a civilian government (local, state and national) that failed to act.  See how the people stand up for themselves.

Lessons Learned and the Significance

This is a good news story.  The successes of counterinsurgency is rooted in the ability of the people to take control of their government; NOT by constantly relying on their government to run everything for them.  In 2007, Iraq experienced such an incident that changed the whole outcome of the conflict in Iraq.  There are indications some of this is happening in Afghanistan as well.  There’s much to learn from this video.

 

 

Mexico Drug Cartels: OE Watch - Is Contract Killing Cheaper in Mexico?

OE Watch - Is Contract Killing Cheaper in Mexico?

MEXICO

20 April 2012

Is Contract Killing Cheaper in Mexico?


Scope of M-91 by HEATHER S. GORDON [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Source: Rios, Viridiana. "¿Por qué matar es tan barato en México?" EstePais,
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/files/FinalEstePais_Junio.pdf, Accessed on 23
April 2012

FMSO Commentary: Contract killing in Mexico is cheap when compared to
countries like Australia and Spain. One reason hitmen in Mexico are cheap is
that there is a large labor pool to choose from, despite the fact the
average life of an assassin in Mexico is three years. Becoming a hitman and
moving up within the ranks of an organized crime group are nearly a
certainty. Most of these deadly criminals start out as street vendors and
begin working as hitmen in as little as three months. According to the
Secretariat of Public Security in Mexico, the average age at which young
adults become contract killers is 24.

...

Considering the availability of weapons, and the low probability of
punishment, it can be concluded that hitmen are well paid in Mexico. But the
abilities of a hitman go beyond just killing. To reduce the number of hitmen
in Mexico, authorities need to fight all types of crimes in order to reduce
the profit flow that hitmen gain from other activities besides killing.


Read Why:
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/Archives/GSW/Current/current.html#Is
Contract Killing Cheaper in Mexico?

Mexico: OE Watch - Cartels Clone Company Vehicles

Mexico - Cartels Clone Company Vehicles

MEXICO

1 June 2012

Cartels Clone Company Vehicles


Company vehicles like AT&T and UPS, as well as official Border Patrol
vehicles are used for smuggling drugs and people. Photo by Texas Departmetn
of Public Safety

Source: "Cárteles "Clonan" Autos de Compañías (Cartels Clone Company
Vehicles)," El Universal, 01 June 2012.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/197096.html

FMSO Commentary: Mexican organized criminal groups have been masters at
making replica contraband for decades. They have widely diversified
operations in a wide variety of forms in order to maximize profit potential
from almost every angle. From selling imitation brand-name clothing, purses,
and accessories, to pirated CDs/DVDs, to cloning official Mexican military
and law enforcement vehicles in order to conduct extortions and more, this
is not a new modus operandi for these groups.

...

There have additionally been recent reports that the transnational criminal
organizations (TCOs)/cartels are looking to establish a "zone of impunity"
on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border in order to conduct operations
more effectively and efficiently. A September 2011 El Paso Times article
alleged that the wife of a high-level Los Zetas member holds a
non-law-enforcement job with the DEA in Las Cruces, New Mexico; this may be
just one of many similar cases in an effort to further and establish this
zone in a more expeditious manner. With the addition of cloning U.S. law
enforcement and other national company vehicles and operating them on U.S.
soil, the Mexican TCOs are definitely taking a large risk and making a bold
statement in an apparent effort to turn the U.S.'s southwest border into an
extension of the region of perceived impunity in which they operate in
Mexico's northern states. End FMSO Commentary (Scheidel)

Read more:
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/Archives/GSW/Current/current.html#Is
Contract Killing Cheaper in Mexico?

Mexico Elite Counterdrug Units May Be New Strategy To Target Drug Traffickers - Huffington Post

Mexico Elite Counterdrug Units May Be New Strategy To Target Drug Traffickers - Huffington Post
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Mexico's Presidential Favorite Sticks Close to Party's Old Guard

Mexico's Presidential Favorite Sticks Close to Party's Old Guard
NEWS | JUNE 28, 2012
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A map of the relationships of Enrique Peña Nieto, who is set to win Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, is a reminder of ... Read more

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Killings Curb Reporting of Mexican Crime Wave - New York Times

Killings Curb Reporting of Mexican Crime Wave - New York Times
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 22, 2012
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Killings Curb Reporting of Mexican Crime WaveNew York TimesThe recent death of Víctor Báez, a longstanding police reporter, has ... Read more

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Obama’s deportation distraction: Is this really the immigration reform America needs right now?

Obama's deportation distraction: Is this really the immigration reform America needs right now?
THE ENTERPRISE BLOG | JUNE 15, 2012
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A surprise move from President Obama on immigration: About 800,000 young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as ... Read more

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Modify the Rules, Don't Abandon the Fight - New York Times

Modify the Rules, Don't Abandon the Fight - New York Times
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | MAY 30, 2012
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Modify the Rules, Don't Abandon the FightNew York TimesAlejandro Hope is a security policy analyst at IMCO and México ... Read more

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Drug Legalization Could Create More Crime - New York Times

Drug Legalization Could Create More Crime - New York Times
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | MAY 30, 2012
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Drug Legalization Could Create More CrimeNew York TimesViridiana Rios is a doctoral fellow at the Harvard's Kennedy school ... Read more

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NY hate crime lawsuit invalidated on technicality - KFVS

NY hate crime lawsuit invalidated on technicality - KFVS
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 18, 2012
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NY hate crime lawsuit invalidated on technicalityKFVS... lawsuit stemming from a 2008 hate crime killing on New York's Long ... Read more

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Cartel money laundering cases tough but critical - Las Cruces Sun-News

Cartel money laundering cases tough but critical - Las Cruces Sun-News
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 18, 2012
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US Blacklists Son, Ex-Wife of 'El Chapo'

US Blacklists Son, Ex-Wife of 'El Chapo'
NEWS | JUNE 8, 2012
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The US Treasury has added an ex-wife and son of the Sinaloa Cartel's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the "Kingpin List," freezing ... Read more

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Violent Mexican cartel targets PepsiCo chip maker - Washington Post

Violent Mexican cartel targets PepsiCo chip maker - Washington Post
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Mexico Judges To Allow 'Queen of the Pacific' Extradition - InSight Crime

Mexico Judges To Allow 'Queen of the Pacific' Extradition - InSight Crime
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 8, 2012
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Mexican ex-governor denies cartel allegations - NorthJersey.com

Mexican ex-governor denies cartel allegations - NorthJersey.com
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 8, 2012
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Deutsche WelleMexican ex-governor denies cartel allegationsNorthJersey.comAP MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former governor of the ... Read more

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Web site chronicles violence in Mexico, life in border region - Fox News

Web site chronicles violence in Mexico, life in border region - Fox News
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 8, 2012
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Web site chronicles violence in Mexico, life in border regionFox NewsAnyone who reads every day what happens in Mexico and ... Read more

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Mexico enacts witness-protection law - Fox News

Mexico enacts witness-protection law - Fox News
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 8, 2012
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Mexico sees increase in foreign travelers despite warnings, drug violence - Washington Post

Mexico sees increase in foreign travelers despite warnings, drug violence - Washington Post
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Nobel laureates highlight violence against women in Mexico, Central America - CNN

Nobel laureates highlight violence against women in Mexico, Central America - CNN
MEXICO VIOLENCE - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 5, 2012
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11 killed in attack at Mexico rehab center - CNN

11 killed in attack at Mexico rehab center - CNN
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Peña Nieto: I back continuing role for army in Mexico's drug war - Fox News

Peña Nieto: I back continuing role for army in Mexico's drug war - Fox News
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PolicyMicPeña Nieto: I back continuing role for army in Mexico's drug warFox NewsPresident Felipe Calderon ordered the ... Read more

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Mexican journalists and activists seek safe haven in US - Fox News

Mexican journalists and activists seek safe haven in US - Fox News
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5 bodies found in Ariz may be latest drug violence - WHIO Dayton

5 bodies found in Ariz may be latest drug violence - WHIO Dayton
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 5, 2012
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5 bodies found in Ariz may be latest drug violenceWHIO DaytonBy AMANDA LEE MYERS AP In the desert within 35 miles of one of the ... Read more

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Mexican marines free 13 people being held by Gulf cartel - Fox News

Mexican marines free 13 people being held by Gulf cartel - Fox News
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 5, 2012
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Mexican marines free 13 people being held by Gulf cartelFox NewsThe suspects told investigators that they belonged to the Gulf ... Read more

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Mexico Investigates Two Top Judicial Officials for Crime Ties - InSight Crime

Mexico Investigates Two Top Judicial Officials for Crime Ties - InSight Crime
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 5, 2012
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Mexico Investigates Two Top Judicial Officials for Crime TiesInSight CrimeMexico is investigating two top judicial officials, ... Read more

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Western Banks 'Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade'

Western Banks 'Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade'
SMALL WARS JOURNAL | JUNE 2, 2012
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By: Dave Dilegge Western Banks 'Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade' by Ed Vulliamy of The Guardian. Read more

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Mexican federal police commander found brutally slain

Mexican federal police commander found brutally slain
BORDERLAND BEAT | JUNE 2, 2012
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Photo: LineaDirectaThe charred body of a federal police commander was found with signs of torture and asphyxiation in the ... Read more

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Mexico suspends, probes judges of key drug cases

Mexico suspends, probes judges of key drug cases
BORDERLAND BEAT | JUNE 2, 2012
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Judge Jesus Guadalupe LunaAPMexican court authorities have suspended two judges while investigators look into possible ... Read more

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Mexico's missing: collateral damage of narco-violence - Globe and Mail

Mexico's missing: collateral damage of narco-violence - Globe and Mail
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 2, 2012

Globe and MailMexico's missing: collateral damage of narco-violenceGlobe and MailThey are Mexico's missing – and unlike ... Read more

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Mexico suspends, probes judges who released son of drug capo, mayors accused ... - Washington Post

Mexico suspends, probes judges who released son of drug capo, mayors accused ... - Washington Post
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 2, 2012

Mexico suspends, probes judges who released son of drug capo, mayors accused ...Washington PostLast summer, Luna upheld a lower ... Read more

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Mexico Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan Says US Guns Fuel Violence, Denies Mexico Is ... - Huffington Post

Mexico Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan Says US Guns Fuel Violence, Denies Mexico Is ... - Huffington Post
MEXICO VIOLENCE - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 1, 2012

UPI.comMexico Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan Says US Guns Fuel Violence, Denies Mexico Is ...Huffington Postsaid that those who ... Read more

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Gang attacks Mexico PepsiCo subsidiary again

Gang attacks Mexico PepsiCo subsidiary again
RISKINTEL | JUNE 1, 2012
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"Police in southern Mexico say assailants have burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, ... Read more

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A New Front Line in the U.S. Drug War

A New Front Line in the U.S. Drug War
SMALL WARS JOURNAL | JUNE 1, 2012
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By: Dave Dilegge A New Front Line in the U.S. Drug War by Damien Cave, Charlie Savage, and Thom Shanker of the New York ... Read more

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Mexico police scour highways after PepsiCo truck torched - Reuters UK

Mexico police scour highways after PepsiCo truck torched - Reuters UK
MEXICO VIOLENCE - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 1, 2012
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MiamiHerald.comMexico police scour highways after PepsiCo truck torchedReuters UKExtortion attempts and attacks on smaller ... Read more

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Mexico Drug Gang Claims Pepsi Subsidiary Helped Govt Agents - InSight Crime

Mexico Drug Gang Claims Pepsi Subsidiary Helped Govt Agents - InSight Crime
MEXICO CRIME - GOOGLE NEWS | JUNE 1, 2012
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MiamiHerald.comMexico Drug Gang Claims Pepsi Subsidiary Helped Govt AgentsInSight CrimeMichoacan is a high priority for the ... Read more

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