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Wow they were about to go to San Diego, that's where I live! I also live in the Mexican-dominated portion of town too. Intense.
Mexico's Drug War - Page 14
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Wow they were about to go to San Diego, that's where I live! I also live in the Mexican-dominated portion of town too. Intense. | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101209/capt.8014384f63274450a8ff32a4ed112541-8014384f63274450a8ff32a4ed112541-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=xerUNzDbQXn.lHo..iolig--) MORELIA, Mexico – Federal police hunted for top leaders of the La Familia drug cartel in a western Mexican state on Thursday, unleashing narco-blockades and shootouts that have left at least five people dead, including an 8-month-old baby. Federal police believe that several La Familia members may have been killed, including one of its top leaders, said Alejandro Poire, government spokesman for security issues. He did not say who the leader may have been. "The way the criminals have tried to protect themselves as they fled from our operations yesterday and today suggests that we have located and are closely pursuing high-level leaders of La Familia Michoacana," Poire said. "Similarly, preliminary unconfirmed information indicates that in their retreat, the organization has suffered significant causalities, including possibly the death of one of their leaders." Source | ||
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MORELIA, Mexico – A leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel is believed to have been killed in a shootout during two days violence have challenged police and terrified civilians across key parts of Michoacan state, a Mexican official said Friday. Government security spokesman Alejandro Poire said officials have received information that Nazario Moreno Gonzalez — nicknamed "The Craziest One" — was killed in clashes between cartel gunmen and federal police. Cartel gunmen have been fleeing the clash scenes with their dead and police have information that Moreno was among the dead, Poire said. Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101212/capt.a3c9dd60b60d415eb9ab7a2394240a31-a3c9dd60b60d415eb9ab7a2394240a31-0.jpg?x=400&y=239&q=85&sig=qKv8q5ZSOVj8gnZoK3iG2Q--) MEXICO CITY – A gunbattle between rival gangs killed 11 people during a Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in a western Mexican town, authorities said Saturday. Armed men arrived in three cars and opened fire on another group of gunmen in the main plaza of Tecalitlan just as a crowd was gathering Friday night, the Jalisco state attorney general's office said in a statement. One of the gunmen hurled a grenade. Eight men were killed at the scene and two others died at a hospital, the office said. Another man, the brother of one of those killed in the plaza, was found shot to death next to a car on the highway just outside the small town, the statement said. Inside the car, which had been reported stolen, authorities found two banners. One read: "We haven't come to kill innocent people. We've come for El Zopilote." The other said: "We do not charge quotas." Source | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101214/capt.029916f6a3064399aa1589cea4d215db-029916f6a3064399aa1589cea4d215db-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=qLi0d9cGpQMVapIJVYWzzQ--) MEXICO CITY – This year's death toll in drug-related violence in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the hardest hit by Mexico's drug war, rose to 3,000 Tuesday after two men were shot dead on a street, authorities said. Ciudad Juarez has seen its homicide rate rise to one of the highest in the world after vicious turf battles broke out between gangs representing the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels in 2008. That year, 1,623 people were killed in drug-related violence, and the toll increased to 2,763 deaths in 2009. With prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval announcing the latest grim milestone, a total of 7,386 people have died in the city of 1.3 million people across the border from El Paso, Texas, in three years. Most were members of rival drug gangs, but civilians, police and recovering drug addicts have also been targeted. Source | ||
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United States1844 Posts
I suspect I'll be waiting a century. | ||
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![[image loading]](http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101217/capt.6442311f2e6e4c0ba83458bc229d71c3-6442311f2e6e4c0ba83458bc229d71c3-0.jpg?x=400&y=265&q=85&sig=sxwlVgNpuwfppOF0pZ_Vcw--) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Anger over Mexico's creaky, inefficient justice system boiled over after a mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter's killer to justice was herself shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager. A security video recording shows masked men pulling up in a car in front of the governor's office in the northern city of Chihuahua. One appeared to exchange words with anti-crime crusader Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, who was holding a vigil outside. She tried to flee by running across the street, but the gunman chased her down and shot her in the head late Thursday, said Jorge Gonzalez, special state prosecutor for crime prevention. Escobedo was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she died within minutes. Source | ||
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OBAN, Guatemala – The Guatemalan military declared a state of siege Sunday in a northern province that authorities say has been overtaken by Mexican drug traffickers. The government initiated the monthlong measure in the Alta Verapaz province to reclaim cities that have been taken over by the Zetas drug gang, Ronaldo Robles, a spokesman for Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, told radio station Emisoras Unidas. "It is to bring peace to the people and recover their confidence in the government," he said. A state of siege allows the army to detain suspects without warrants, conduct warrantless searches, prohibit gun possession and public gatherings, and control the local news media. Guatemalan law allows the measure amid acts of terrorism, sedition or "rebellion," or when events "put the constitutional order or security of the state in danger." The state of siege was put in place for 30 days, but "will last as long as necessary," Colom told Emisoras Unidas. He asked citizens to trust and cooperate with authorities. Source | ||
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Souma
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the possible kidnapping of 50 illegal migrants in the southern state of Oaxaca, a day after saying there was no evidence of the crime. Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran migrants were being interviewed by officials at the federal Attorney General's Office about an assault last Thursday, the National Migration Institute said in a statement. The migrants — 30 men, 15 women and five children — were held up by gunmen while trying to cross the country by train and are now missing, said the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador, which first reported the crime. Migration Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio said he has been in contact with the foreign ministers of Honduras and El Salvador about the alleged abduction on the Oaxacan isthmus, which many migrants from Central America cross on their way to the United States. Source | ||
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eVe
United States12 Posts
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Australia524 Posts
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Darth_Ihsahn
Mexico138 Posts
No other state has produced more guns seized by police in the brutal Mexican drug wars than Texas. In the Lone Star State, no other city has more guns linked to Mexican crime scenes than Houston. And in the Texas oil town, no single independent dealer stands out more for selling guns traced from south of the border than Bill Carter. Source I wouldn't be surprised if the US tries to send troops into Mexico in the near future to appear as a savior. To me, this looks like the classical American maneuver: Feed the conflict -> Create chaos -> Jump in as a "savior" -> Take control. I bet they will be selling firearms to the Mexican government just as they sell them to the drug cartels. | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
On December 23 2010 22:21 Darth_Ihsahn wrote: Source I wouldn't be surprised if the US tries to send troops into Mexico in the near future to appear as a savior. To me, this looks like the classical American maneuver: Feed the conflict -> Create chaos -> Jump in as a "savior" -> Take control. I bet they will be selling firearms to the Mexican government just as they sell them to the drug cartels. US already has troops in Mexico harvesting for almost a year now. It just hasn't made it to the news. | ||
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – The Christmas holiday weekend failed to stem the violence in Mexico's murder capital Ciudad Juarez, where drug-related shootings have killed 13 people over two days, officials said Saturday. Eleven of the murder victims were shot Friday, while two more were killed on Christmas Day, authorities for the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua said. More than 12,000 murders have been committed this year as part of Mexico's vicious four-year drug gang war, with 30,000 deaths in all since President Felipe Calderon launched a massive military crackdown on the cartels, according to figures released this month. Security officials said they have arrested more than 27,000 suspected drug gang members as part of the ongoing crackdown, including at least 17,000 detained this year. Source | ||
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ACAPULCO, Mexico – Police in the Mexican resort of Acapulco found the decapitated bodies of two men in front of a bar where 11 men were reportedly abducted earlier this month, officials said Monday. Shell casings from assault rifles and two handwritten messages whose contents were not disclosed were found at the scene, according to a statement from police in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero where Acapulco is located. Such messages are often left by drug gangs. Eleven men were reported abducted from the bar on Dec. 17. Such establishments are frequently the targets of extortion attempts. Two of the abducted men were later found dead. Their hands and feet had been cut off. Elsewhere in Guerrero, a car ran into a group of people leaving a church Sunday in the town of Ayutla, killing three and injuring four. And in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz Monday, one policeman was killed, and a local police commander was wounded when a man opened fire on municipal offices in the town of Otatitlan. Three people who were attending a wedding at the town hall were wounded in the shootout. Source | ||
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CarlyZerg
United States113 Posts
And it's Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don't pull you through Don't you put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue They've got some hungry women there And they really make a mess out'a you. + Show Spoiler + Now if you see Saint Annie Please tell her thanks a lot I cannot move My fingers are all in a knot I don't have the strength To get up and take another shot And my best friend, my doctor Won't even say what it is I've got. Sweet Melinda The peasants call her the goddess of gloom She speaks good English And she invites you up into her room And you're so kind And careful not to go to her too soon And she takes your voice And leaves you howling at the moon. Up on Housing Project Hill It's either fortune or fame You must pick up one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim If you're lookin' to get silly You better go back to from where you came Because the cops don't need you And man they expect the same. Now all the authorities They just stand around and boast How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms Into leaving his post And picking up Angel who Just arrived here from the coast Who looked so fine at first But left looking just like a ghost. I started out on burgundy But soon hit the harder stuff Everybody said they'd stand behind me When the game got rough But the joke was on me There was nobody even there to bluff I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough. Bob Dylan, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues | ||
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Miss_Cleo
United States406 Posts
On December 24 2010 03:03 acidfreak wrote: And to think all of this could be avoided if the US government would just legalize the damn things and thus removing the demand. But ofc the US is profiting more from keeping the drugs illegal and single handily creating a black market and all of these atrocitys that could be so easily avoided... It's sad really. History isn't teaching anyone anything. Look were the alcohol ban led: Al Capone. Studies done by the RAND corporation suggest that legalization will increase the consumption of narcotics, so legalizing will not decrease the demand, this is a myth. But yeah, prohibition does lead to an increase of crime and other social ills. | ||
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Gunmen kidnapped nine migrants in a southern Mexican state where 50 disappeared last week, El Salvador's Foreign Ministry announced Monday. Five of the migrants escaped and reported the kidnapping, the ministry said in a statement. Another was killed as he tried to flee and the other three remain missing. The survivors said seven gunmen kidnapped the Central Americans on Dec. 21 from a train near the Ixtepec, a town in Oaxaca state, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry said Mexican authorities are investigating and have the five witnesses in protective custody. Mexican police found the body of the slain migrant, identified as Salvadoran national Tomas Ferman Pineda, 41, and were arranging to repatriate his body. The nationality of the other migrants was unclear. Source | ||
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