Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

Jan 272012
 
 27/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 01:26 on 27/01/2012 No Responses »
Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses, taxis and other public conveyances. “We are contracted with a certified laboratory in Monterey, which immediately reports to the Delegation when positive results are obtained” Cuellar said Bridges. The tests began on Monday, with a goal to finish by Friday with 500 tests remaining in addition to refresher driving and ….Read More

Mexico’s 2012 Highways Budget Likely To Stay Near Record Level

Sep 252011
 
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Mexico's 2012 Highways Budget Likely To Stay Near Record Level

By Laurence Iliff Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES  MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–Mexico’s 2012 budget for building and repairing highways is likely to stay near historically high levels after making its way through Congress, and the planned projects shouldn’t suffer from a weaker peso since materials and manpower are sourced locally, an official with the Communications and Transport Ministry said Thursday. The ministry’s deputy minister for infrastructure, Fausto Barajas Cumming, said at a media briefing that the current year’s highways budget is nearing 57 billion pesos ($4.08 billion) after it had been originally proposed at MXN39 billion during the federal budget process ….Read More

Attack on Monterrey casino leaves 63 dead and is an act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM

Aug 272011
 
 27/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 02:32 on 27/08/2011 Comments Off
Attack on Monterrey casino leaves 63 dead and is an act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM

The attack on a popular Monterrey casino yesterday afternoon that left 63 people dead and dozens more injured, mostly women, has elevated the narco violence into Mexico into a de facto act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM and the response to this cowardly attack against innocent civilians should be treated as such. A $30 million peso reward has been offered by the PGR for information leading to the arrest of the individuals involved. One of the cars used by the gunman, a Cooper Mini has been found and is undergoing forensic examination and a sketch of one of the gunmen, based on ….Read More

Practical aid for the victims of Japan’s earthquake [UPDATED]

Mar 122011
 
 12/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:08 on 12/03/2011 Comments Off
Practical aid for the victims of Japan's earthquake [UPDATED]

Whatever you may think about Mexico, their disaster preparedness teams are some of the best in the world and first to step up to the plate, as out friends at MEXFILES explains:   Ten rescue dog teams, three structural engineering specialists and twenty rescue workers — pulled together from the Jalisco Civil Protection Unit, the Mexico City Fire Department, UNAM, Cruz Roja and CENPRED (the Center for Disaster Preparedness) are on their way to Sendai… one team having left Friday afternoon, the rest to follow on Saturday. Makes me think of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when Mexico sent troops ….Read More

21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

Nov 082010
 
 08/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 08:55 on 08/11/2010 Comments Off
21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

A bus owned by Estrella Blanco of Sonora collided Friday night with a double tanker carrying 40,000 liters of gasoline on the highway outside of Palmillas Escuinapa, resulting in 21 fatalities. The tanker, owned by Specialized Transportation Robles and driven by Ruben Santos Padilla, had loaded at a PEMEX facility in Mazatlan earlier in the afternoon. The bus, was traveling from Mexico City, where it departed at 0600 with it’s final destination being Tijuana. The bus company is taking care of all funeral, travel and per diem expenses for the victims and the victims families, even though, according to officials, ….Read More

Is this the “New Mexican Revolution”? – Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

Sep 232010
 
 23/09/2010  Posted by PMC at 09:27 on 23/09/2010 4 Responses »
Is this the "New Mexican Revolution"? - Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

The good people of Mexico have has enough and the attempted kidnapping of a young woman in Ascension, Chihuahua, a small town south of the New Mexico border, could well be the catalyst for Mexican citizens to begin to take back their country from the grips of the narco terrorists. The blatant abduction attempt abduction of a 17-year-old female worker of a seafood restaurant  touched off a burst of mass outrage that left two suspected young kidnappers dead and a small town in open rebellion. Alerted to the kidnapping, townspeople and soldiers mobilized, freed the victim and detained five alleged kidnappers; ….Read More

Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

Sep 252009
 
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Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city. Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States. The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.

PEMEX: Mexico Loses $700 Million Annually to Oil Theft

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 02:01 on 01/09/2009 1 Response »
PEMEX: Mexico Loses $700 Million Annually to Oil Theft

By Sylvia Longmire Normally when someone hears a story about oil theft or criminal groups hacking into pipelines, one thinks of places like Nigeria or Iraq. Unfortunately, oil looting is rampant in Mexico, and it’s costing the government millions. And it’s not just oil that’s being stolen. Mexican criminals have been tapping into Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines for years to steal gasoline, diesel, and even jet fuel, according to Reuters’ reports. Criminals dig up pipelines that are buried in rural areas, attach a valve, and then siphon off the fuel. They usually have no problem selling the stolen fuel to ….Read More

Mexico replaces Customs Agents, upgrades border security

Aug 172009
 
 17/08/2009  Posted by PMC at 20:34 on 17/08/2009 1 Response »
Mexico replaces Customs Agents, upgrades border security

Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties. The shake-up — part of a broader effort to root out corruption and improve vigilance at Mexican ports with new technology — doubled the size of Mexico’s customs inspection force. The inspectors were replaced with 1,400 agents who have undergone background checks and months of training, Tax Administration Service spokesman Pedro Canabal said Sunday. He said the previous inspectors were not fired. Instead, government did not rehire them when ….Read More

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