CSI – Cd. Juarez

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:54 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
CSI - Cd. Juarez

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man’s head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. As with most murders in Ciudad Juarez, police found no witnesses, no weapons. Only the battered corpse on the steel coroner’s table carries clues to who he was and how he died. “Every organ speaks,” says Dr. Maria Concepcion Molina, who gently removes packing tape from the head of her third decapitated ….Read More

Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

Mar 032009
 
 03/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:57 on 03/03/2009 Comments Off
Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

More than 3,000 Mexican troops arrived during the weekend in Juárez as part of what authorities have described as a frontal assault on crime in the coming weeks.   The new soldiers, which are in addition to the 2,000 already assigned to Joint Operation Chihuahua, were deployed after a meeting last week among high-level Mexican government officials in Juárez. More troops, including intelligence units, are expected to arrive in the next few days, said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began a year ago in the federal government’s battle against drug cartels and rising crime. On Sunday, ….Read More

The fallacy of Mexico as a failing state

Feb 012009
 
 01/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:34 on 01/02/2009 Comments Off

Yann Kerevel writes at Allterdestiny; f anyone has been following headline’s in the U.S. press about Mexico in the last month or two, you might have noticed a lot of alarmist and sensationalist garbage being thrown around suggesting that Mexico is coming close to collapse, is a “failed state” or a “narco state.” Fox news has been spreading this message, along with a number of political commentators on the Sunday morning talk shows, and even Rolling Stone. The violence in Mexico is worrying, and cause for concern, but the rhetoric seems to lead the uninformed to think Mexico is more ….Read More

Detained Mexican beauty queen Laura Zuniga, released from custody

Jan 312009
 
 31/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:21 on 31/01/2009 5 Responses »
Detained Mexican beauty queen Laura Zuniga, released from custody

Prosecutors ruled Friday that a Mexican beauty queen be released from house arrest after investigations in a drug and weapons case turned up no evidence against her. Laura Zuniga, 23, was detained in western Mexico on Dec. 23, in a vehicle along with seven men, some of them suspected drug traffickers. Authorities found a large stash of weapons, ammunition and $45,000 with them inside a vehicle. She was stripped of one of her crowns — the title she won in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant in October — but still holds the beauty title of the northern state of Sinaloa, long ….Read More

DHS Chief Napolitano – “U.S. to crack down on gun smuggling”

Jan 302009
 
 30/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:07 on 30/01/2009 Comments Off
DHS Chief Napolitano - "U.S. to crack down on gun smuggling"

It’s about damned time! The country’s new homeland security chief said Friday that the Obama administration is mapping out a crackdown on the flow of firearms smuggled to Mexico’s murderous drug gangs operating along the Texas border. Janet Napolitano said she had directed the Customs and Border Protection service “to find guns going south and interdict them.” Additionally, the homeland security secretary said she will give Mexican authorities access to a government database to trace the U.S. origin of seized weapons. U.S. and Mexican officials have been investigating organizations in Houston and elsewhere believed to have smuggled large numbers of ….Read More

U.S.-Mexico drug war: We’re clucking like chickens

Jan 112009
 
 11/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 09:11 on 11/01/2009 2 Responses »

By showing true mettle and grit — by standing with staid backbones — Beto O’Rourke and the seven other city representatives sent others running for the proverbial hills, like chickens, Tuesday. Mayor John Cook and U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes couldn’t run fast enough, bwaak, bwaak. It boiled down to simply asking Congress to at least discuss the feasibility of making drug use legal as a way of breaking the backs of drug cartels. At issue is the war zone that is Juárez, and figuring out how to stop the mobster drug lords and their armies, who rule that city of ….Read More

Laura Zuniga stripped of crown – PGR granted 40 days detention rights by Mexican Judge

Dec 272008
 
 27/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:46 on 27/12/2008 Comments Off
Laura Zuniga stripped of crown - PGR granted 40 days detention rights by Mexican Judge

Laura Zuniga, 23, detained on suspicion of drug and weapons violations has been stripped of her crown in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant, contest organizers said Saturday. Zuniga was stripped of first-place honors for “failure to comply with the regulations of the title she represents,” Bolivia-based pageant organizing company Gloria Promociones said in a statement. She beat more than 19 contestants from Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States to win the title in October. Runner-up Vivian Noronha of Brazil will receive the crown.

Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck

Dec 232008
 
 23/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:14 on 23/12/2008 Comments Off
Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday. Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga stared at the ground, with her flowing dark hair concealing her face, as she stood squeezed between seven alleged gunmen lined up before journalists. Soldiers wearing ski masks guarded the 23-year-old model and the suspects. Zuniga was arrested shortly before midnight on Monday at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, just outside the colonial city of Guadalajara, said Jalisco state police director, Francisco Alejandro Solorio. Zuniga ….Read More

Not surprising that firearms in Mexico have ties to El Paso

Dec 142008
 
 14/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:28 on 14/12/2008 1 Response »
Not surprising that firearms in Mexico have ties to El Paso

EL PASO – The recent sentencing of two men convicted of federal arms-trafficking charges represents the latest cases with ties to El Paso investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.   John Avelar, 32, of El Paso and Jonatan López-Gutiérrez, 33, of Mexico were sentenced, respectively, to 37 months and 48 months in prison, after pleading guilty to their roles in a gun-smuggling scheme. The indictment against them and others listed several weapons purchased from licensed dealers in El Paso, including a .50-caliber sniper rifle, then apparently smuggled into Mexico. Investigations and prosecutions have increased significantly under ….Read More

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