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Nuevo Laredo. - More than 4 tons of marijuana in addition to other drugs and pirated CD’s,were destroyed yesterday by personnel of the Army in the presence of federal, state and municipal authorities.

Operativo Permanente, has resulted in the seizure of enormous amounts of narcotics in Nuevo Laredo, Nuevo Guerrero, Cd. Mier, Miguel Alemán, Díaz Ordaz y Camargo, according to spokesmen from the First Motorized Cavalry regiment, headquartered in Nuevo Laredo.

The contraband was turned over to the Military and State and local authorities by the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), after being used as evidence in administrative and legal proceedings

The contraband was incinerated at Cuarentenaria Station, located on the Ribereña Highway, between Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa.

The destruction of the goodies was overseen by members of the local Subdelegation of the PGR, of the Federal Agency of Investigations (AFI), the Army, the Preventive Federal Police (PFP) and the Municipal Police.

Among the items destroyed were various chemicals from a clandestine laboratory in the Municipality of Miguel Aleman that were part of a meth lab.

Also destroyed were more than 50,000 pirated CD’s seized in raids around the city.

This is more evidence of President Calderon’s ongoing effort to fight organized crime and corruption in Mexico.

Mexico deserves and needs the $1.4 billion dollar aid package recently approved by Congress to fight the cartels. Mexico does not need US interference or boots on the ground however. Calderon is quite capable of turning this country around.

According to a press release issued by the Eighth Military District in Reynosa, soldiers on routine patrol observed a Jeep Cherokee trying to evade surveillance and a chase ensued.

Military units arrested the driver and during interrogation, the suspect directed officials to a safe house in Miguel Aleman where a cache of weapons, drugs and vehicles were seized.

Seized were:

• Nines tons of marijuana
• 89 AR-15 and AK-47’s
• 12 shotguns and 5 handguns
• 235 magazines
• 83,565 bullets of various calibers
• 3 frag grenades
• 30 cal. machine gun on tripod
• 9 vehicles of various makes and types.

President Calderon and the Mexican forces need to be commended for their efforts to put an end to the cartel’s control of the border region. Now, if the US will do their part to stop the illegal exportation of weapons from the border states to Mexico.

A trumpet player was found dead with his hands and feet bound and a nylon bag over his head in southern Mexico, in what authorities said was apparently the country’s third murder of a musician in less than a week.Jose Luis Aquino, 33, had been hit repeatedly on the head, said a spokesman for the Oaxaca state attorney general’s office who could not be named according to departmental rules. He said authorities were still investigating possible motives but suspected a crime of passion.

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The tunnel opening cut into the floor of a shipping container here drops three levels, each accessible by ladders, first a metal one and then two others fashioned from wood pallets. The tunnel stretches 1,300 feet to the south, crossing the Mexican border some 50 feet below ground and proceeding to a sky-blue office building in sight of the steel-plated border
fence.Three or four feet wide and six feet high, the passageway is illuminated by compact fluorescent bulbs (wired to the Mexican side), supported by carefully placed wooden beams and kept dry by two pumps. The neatly squared walls, carved through solid rock, bear the signs of engineering skill and professional drilling tools.

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MEXICO CITY — In the hours leading up to his slaying this week, Mexican singing star Sergio Gomez had a vision of impending death, a friend said.

“He told me, ‘You know what? I’m not afraid to die, and if I die it will be happy because I have taken the band to where I want it,’” said Humberto Duran, a backup singer of K-Paz de la Sierra, the band Gomez led that in just a few years has become hugely popular in both Mexico and the United States.

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The lead singer of well-known Mexican band K-Paz de la Sierra was abducted and strangled to death, adding to a list of performers killed in a violent crime wave.

Sergio Gomez, whose group had close ties to Chicago, and two music promoters, were seized by armed men in the western Mexican state of Michoacan in the early hours of Sunday after a show.

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