Mexico City residents disarm

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/06/mexico-city-residents-disarm.html

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IITrends - Incidents, Issues and Trends: What is Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll for 2012? You...

IITrends - Incidents, Issues and Trends: What is Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll for 2012? You...:   The Mexican Drug War Death Toll remains elusive, as the Mexican government still does not appear to maintain accurate records. [1] And, w...

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

Mexican Indigenous Tribes: The New Mules of Drug Trafficking Organizations

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Mexico’s Drug War - BAKER INSTITUTE VIEWPOINTS

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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
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Borderland BeatThe Road to Mend the Mexican Justice SystemThe Mexican criminal justice system is in crisis.  Mexico is facing ... Read more

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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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Chivis Martinez Borderland BeatPRESIDENT OF TELOLOAPAN CUTS A DEAL WITHTHE FAMILIA MICHOACANA IGNACIO DE JESUS VALLADARES ... Read more

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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

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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.

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"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.

Read More:
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
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U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

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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.

Cheers, SWOT Hunter

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