Heavy fighting in and around Cd. Mier – Mexican military – It’s payback time: "Heavy fighting between drug cartel gunmen and the Mexican military broke out in the Tamaulipas towns of Nuevo Guerrero and Miguel Aleman this week, prompting the two international bridges linking both towns to Starr County,Texas to go on high alert to guard against spillover violence crossing into Texas.Two international crossings in Starr County, the Falcon Dam crossing...
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Mexican army kills 11 in drug clash
PressTV - Mexican army kills 11 in drug clash: "Mexican troops have clashed with gunmen believed to belong to the 'Los Zetas' drug cartel, killing 11 of them, according to the Defense Ministry. The ministry said the clashes took place in the state of Tamaulipas, near Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, a city that faces the US state of Texas across the Rio Grande, when a patrol responding to reports of armed men came to blows with them, AFP reported on Friday....
Texas Governor Endorses U.S. Troops in Mexico | KTSM News Channel 9
Texas Governor Endorses U.S. Troops in Mexico | KTSM News Channel 9: "Texas' governor says it is time to send U.S. troops into Mexico to fight the drug war.On MSNBC, Rick Perry said the murders of American citizens in Mexico is justification enough.'I think we have to use every aspect of law enforcement that we have including the military i think we have the same situation that we had in colombia Obviously, Mexico has to approve any type of assistance...
2 bodies hung from bridge, man beheaded in Tijuana
2 bodies hung from bridge, man beheaded in Tijuana: "Two men were slain and hung from a bridge, another was decapitated and a fourth was shot to death over 24 hours in Tijuana, the latest gruesome killings in a Mexican border city where hopes had risen that cartel violence was decreasing. The bodies of two men were found hanging from the Los Alamos bridge early Friday, said Fermin Gomez, Baja California state's deputy attorney general for organized crime. Both victims had their hands and feet bound and one had his head covered with a black plastic...
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thirteen retirees have been shot dead at a detoxification centre near the Mexican border city of Tijuana
Thirteen retirees have been shot dead at a detoxification centre near the Mexican border city of Tijuana, police say.The reason for Sunday's attack was not immediately known, a police official told the AFP news agency, but it was apparently linked to the drug war that has claimed thousands of lives this year.Elsewhere in the country, a mother and her two teenage children were killed in Torreon in the northern Coahuila state, when men in vans opened...
The woman who says her husband was gunned down by Mexican pirates now has a new mission.
The woman who says her husband was gunned down by Mexican pirates now has a new mission.After a long road trip, Tiffany Hartley is back in Colorado and says she plans to raise awareness about border violence.Last month Tiffany and her husband David were jet skiing on Falcon Lake along the border of Texas and Mexico when they were attacked. Hartley says gunman in boats shot and killed David and she fled from the area because she was concerned for her safety. His body has not been found and it's believed the Zetas drug cartel is responsible."I had...
shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake was a mistake
Reliable sources in Mexico have provided information that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. Those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. Sources further reported that the murder of the...
Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico
Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico on Sunday.The victims were a 14-year-old boy and two women aged 18 and 47, according to a statement by the prosecutors' office in northern Coahuila state.The statement said gunmen traveling in two vehicles opened fire on a convoy of federal police and soldiers in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. The officers and soldiers returned fire.It was not clear who fired the shots that killed the bystanders, but the state attorney general's office said...
death toll rose to 14 in the weekend massacre at a boy’s birthday party in Ciudad Juárez,
death toll rose to 14 in the weekend massacre at a boy’s birthday party in Ciudad Juárez, the Chihuahua State attorney general’s office said Sunday.RelatedGunmen burst into the party in a small concrete house in a working-class Ciudad Juárez neighborhood on Friday and opened fire, killing 13 people immediately and wounding 20, state officials said. A 14th victim died in the hospital late Saturday night.A 13-year-old girl was the youngest of the dead, which included several older teenagers. A 9-year-old boy was wounded.Ciudad Juárez has become one...
Gunmen in the Mexican city of Tijuana have shot dead 13 people at a drug rehabilitation centre
Gunmen in the Mexican city of Tijuana have shot dead 13 people at a drug rehabilitation centre, say police.The attack appeared to be connected to the long-running violent conflict between drugs gangs in the the country, in which thousands have been killed.On Saturday, 14 people, most of them teenagers, were shot dead at a party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.Last week, police in Tijuana destroyed 134 tonnes of cannabis - the largest drugs haul ever seized in the country.The drugs, with an estimated street value of at least $340m (£214m), had...
Sunday, 10 October 2010
people in the car were Zetas cartel members; as the soldiers approached them, the gun battle began
Just a little over a week since the reported shooting death of American David Hartley on the waters of Falcon Lake, Mexican Soldiers searching the area discover a car in the brush. The Mexican National Defense Ministry said the soldiers were conducting patrols around the town of New Guerrero, Mexico, near the southern shore of Falcon Lake when they found a car with six people inside. According to officials, the people in the car were Zetas cartel members; as the soldiers approached them, the gun battle began. The Defence Ministry said all six of...
mayor-elect of a small town in Oaxaca state has been slain
mayor-elect of a small town in Oaxaca state has been slain, police have said, on the heels of 11 murders of mayors in Mexico so far this year.Antonio Jimenez, who was about to take over the mayor's post in Martires de Tacubaya, a town of 1,200, was murdered Friday on his way home from working in the country. There was no motive or suspect immediately known, police said.Jimenez, 47, was a teacher and member of the center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).Authorities have blamed the murders of the other mayors on organized crime and drug...
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Hallan cuerpos descuartizados en Ixmiquilpan | Noticias | BlogdelNarco.com
Hallan cuerpos descuartizados en Ixmiquilpan | Noticias | BlogdelNarco.com: "dismembered with a message allegedly organized crime, were found the bodies of two men in the community Fitzhi, in the municipality of Ixmiquilpan.The bodies were found about 05:00 in the morning by staff of the Research Coordination, after receiving a call in which he reported the find.Upon arriving in the area, noticed items that were located where the mutilated bodies...
José Gerardo Garza Mendoza alias “El Gory”
El Blog del Narco: "El director de Tránsito del municipio de Cerralvo, José Gerardo Garza Mendoza alias “El Gory” , abandonó este jueves las celdas del Cereso de Apodaca, luego de ganar un amparo contra el auto de formal prisión.Fue el juez Tercero de Distrito de esta entidad quien absolvió al funcionario, luego de permanecer una semana detenido al ser acusado de incurrir en varios delito...
NARCOTWEETS Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars | World news | The Guardian
Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars | World news | The Guardian: "small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are increasingly limiting their coverage of the country's drug wars because of pressure from the cartels.'Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead,' read one recent tweet on a busy feed from the northern border city of Reynosa, #Reynosafollow. 'Organized crime blockade on San Fernando road lifted,' said another. 'Just saw police officers telling a group...
Mexico Nabs 17 Suspected Members of Gulf Cartel
Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexico Nabs 17 Suspected Members of Gulf Cartel: "Marines arrested 17 suspected Gulf cartel members in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the Mexican navy said Tuesday.The arrests of the suspects, who were paraded before reporters on Tuesday at the Matamoros Naval Sector base in Tamaulipas, was made possible by “information obtained via naval intelligence work,” the navy said in a statement.Marines seized 49 rifles, two handguns and 42 vehicles, including several trucks with trailers, automobiles and SUVs from...
NARCOCINEMA Mexico's drug violence on screen
BBC News - World News America - Mexico's drug violence on screen: "deadly drug war has become a daily reality for the people of Mexico. Last weekend alone, nearly 50 people were killed in violence tied to the cartels. The disturbing trend has permeated many aspects of Mexican culture and even the movies offer little escape. As the BBC's Julian Miglierini reports, a whole genre of films is bringing the drug related violence to the big scree...
5 of a family killed in Mexico drug war - Hindustan Times
5 of a family killed in Mexico drug war - Hindustan Times: "Gunmen murdered five members of a family in Mexico City, in what may have been a 'settling of scores' between rival drug traffickers, a senior official has said. 'Some indications have been found inside the residence that point to an issue related to 'narco-retailing'. They tell us of possible direct revenge against this family,' district attorney Miguel Angel Mancera said.The gunmen murdered Clemente Sanchez Salinas, a 51-year-old seller of bags and raincoats, and took the other four...
Mexico’s Drug War Crosses the Border | FrumForum
Mexico’s Drug War Crosses the Border | FrumForum: "Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia confirmed the information provided to The Brownsville Herald by Mexican law enforcement officials who stated that one of the men killed is the younger brother of former Gulf Cartel members Alberto “Beto Fabe” Castillo Flores and Oscar “El Apache” Castillo Flores, 33. Beto Fabe, who served as a lieutenant with the cartel, was killed in Matamoros last summer while Oscar Castillo joined the Zetas criminal organization. El Apache was arrested in Brownsville in...
Mexican Arrests Zetas Boss in Cancun
Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexican Arrests Zetas Boss in Cancun: "The suspected boss of the Los Zetas drug cartel in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo was captured by army troops, the Defense Secretariat said.Jose Angel Fernandez de Lara Diaz, who was based in Cancun, was arrested last Friday in the Caribbean resort city, the secretariat said.Fernandez de Lara told authorities that he belonged to Los Zetas and was put in charge of operations in the area by the group’s leader, Heriberto Lazcano, in June.The suspect was in charge...
Forty-eight Americans were killed in Mexico during the first six months of 2010
Americans on a deadly pace in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "Forty-eight Americans were killed in Mexico during the first six months of 2010 — a deadly pace that appears likely to exceed any previous year of homicides on record, according to the Houston Chronicle's analysis of the U.S. State Department's death registry.The tally doesn't include two Texans reported killed Sept. 30 in separate incidents in isolated areas of Tamaulipas, where the terrorist group known as the Zetas has been warring with their Gulf Cartel rivals in...
David, was shot to death by Mexican pirates chasing them on speedboats across Falcon Lake on Sept. 30 as they returned on Jet Skis
search for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, U.S. officials said Thursday.U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told reporters that Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to find David Hartley's body while trying to keep their own crews safe."When darkness was falling (Wednesday evening), they got word that there might be an ambush," Cuellar said. "People that are trying to do their job on the Mexican side are facing a risk, they're...
search for an American tourist reportedly shot dead on a border lake by Mexican pirates has been hampered by threats of an ambush from drug gangs.
U.S. officials say the search for an American tourist reportedly shot dead on a border lake by Mexican pirates has been hampered by threats of an ambush from drug gangs.David Hartley was a native of Loveland, Colorado, and he has family who lives here.A rally is scheduled to begin Friday with a walk at 12:30 p.m. from Four Mile Historic Park in Denver. The group will go to the Mexican Consulate and rally there at 1:00 p.m. The idea is to turn up the pressure on the Mexican government to recover Hartley’s body.U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas said...
confirmed member of the Sex Money Murder gang
Wallace Parrish, 19, of West Fourth Street was arrested last weekend in connection with the Sept. 28 death of 44-year-old Johnston Avenue resident Isidro Leonardo, an employee of United Taxi on Watchung Avenue. Parrish made his first appearance before Superior Court Judge Joan Robinson Gross on Wednesday, when he did not comment at length about the case that authorities have described as a robbery gone wrong.It was not immediately known Thursday whether Parrish had secured legal representation, but details about his life during the months leading...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Cocaine with an estimated street value of nine and a half million euro has been seized in Dublin.
Cocaine with an estimated street value of nine and a half million euro has been seized in Dublin. They were found by Gardai during a search of a house in Corrib Road, Terenure.A drug-mixing factory was uncovered in a joint effort by Terenure and Kevin St Garda stations. Two automatic weapons were also recovered. The seizure is part of an on-going investigation into South Dublin organised crime and also included raids of separate properties in Tallaght and Walkinstown from which two people are still being questioned. The investigation is part of...
Sergio Vega, a Mexican musician known as "El Shaka" gave an interview to an entertainment website announcing that rumours of his grisly murder
Sergio Vega, a Mexican musician known as "El Shaka" gave an interview to an entertainment website announcing that rumours of his grisly murder had been greatly exaggerated."It's happened to me for years now," he complained. "Someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I've been killed or suffered a terrible accident. Then I have to telephone my dear mother – who suffers from heart trouble – to reassure her that in fact I am still alive."This time, Vega sadly never got to make that call. Around 9.30pm, as he was being driven to a late-night concert...
