Mexico Trucker Online

Mexico Verdad begin reporting the emerging conflict between the cartels more than two years ago and the effect on the town and the people of NL. We continue those reports here although a truce appears to be in effect.

Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border.
The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division.
Newell said [...]

Ninety-five percent chance guns came from U.S.
REYNOSA, Mexico - Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody.
An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was home at the time of the raid. But police did find 10 [...]

HUATULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific Coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico.
The 30-foot (10-meter) makeshift submarine was detected [...]

The newest outrage against Mexico going around the blogosphere and on the rabid right wing talk shows and overnight conspiracy fests, is the story of personnel of the Mexican Army being involved in a home invasion and murder in Phoenix Arizona.
When I first heard this, I believe it was on Lou Dobbs nightly hatefest, I [...]

NUEVO LAREDO (MTNS) Almost 3 tons of marijuana was seized Monday outside the town of Camargo by units of the First Motorized Calvary, on routine patroi.
Military units discovered two SUV’s abandoned next to a canal on a ranch close to town and upon investigation, found they contained 276 packages of marijuana wieghing 2,852 kilograms
.It [...]

Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed.
The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work.
The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share [...]

Three headless bodies were found in the Valley of Juárez on Sunday and Monday while worries grew over a new Internet message demanding that prominent Juárez families and business leaders pay a “quota” to a drug cartel for protection.
The validity of the message was unknown. It was posted last week supposedly by “La Linea,” as [...]

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government warned Monday it would not accept conditions that the U.S. Congress has imposed on an aid package to combat drug trafficking.
The Merida Initiative would provide $1.4 billion over several years to help Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti combat drug trafficking.
But the U.S. House and Senate have [...]

Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city’s lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes.
Whether true or not, Juárez and other parts of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this year have become ground zero in [...]

CULIACAN, Mexico — Automatic weapons at the ready, the platoons of federal police officers descend from the transport planes and high-step as neatly as majorettes into the searing heat.
Gen. Rodolfo Cruz puts the officers through their paces as TV cameras record the event.
“Here we are, showing our faces,” said Cruz, 65, a career army officer [...]

MEXICO CITY: A Mexican judge on Thursday recommended that a reputed leader of a Tijuana-based drug cartel not be extradited to the United States, after his defense argued he should not be tried twice on the same charges.
The judge made the recommendation to Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department, which has overseen an increasing number of extraditions [...]

Our friend Sean Mattson, Mexico correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, left this interesting tidbit on his blog this morning, concerning the severed head found on a car in Monterrey this past week.
Honor amongst thieves perhaps? Who knows, but I got a chuckle out of the thing.

Head left on car with warning for wannabe [...]

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 [...]

Calderon vows to press war on cartels despite the body count
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s security forces have been swept into the eye of the storm since President Felipe Calderon decided to get tough on the country’s drug-smuggling gangs.
Once-untouchable federal officials have been assassinated in the streets. Out-gunned soldiers and police have battled gangsters armed with [...]

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top security official blamed organized crime for the brazen killing of an acting federal police chief, saying today his death shows a nationwide crackdown is hurting gangs.
Public Safety Secretary General Garcia Luna said authorities would not be deterred by an onslaught of attacks against police as he presided over the funeral [...]

The acting chief of Mexico’s federal police was shot dead early today outside his home in the capital.
The Public Safety Department said Edgar Millan Gomez was shot 10 times and died hours later in a hospital. Two of his bodyguards were wounded.
A police official, who was not authorized to give his name, said Millan had [...]

PHOENIX—The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operation that supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, authorities said.
Agents raided X Calibur Guns and arrested George Iknadosian after undercover agents bought guns at the store indicating they were to be trafficked to Mexico, said Carlos Baixauli, a special agent [...]