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.
MEXICO CITY — Apart from the police and narco-gangsters, few groups have suffered more in Mexico’s brutal drug wars than the singers whose music often chronicles the carnage. The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.
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Editor’s Note: Get this out there before Glenn Beck and other’s put their hate spin on it. Another honest politician gunned down! RIO BRAVO, Mexico — A memorial of flowers and candles took up yards of sidewalk Friday near the bullet-riddled cafeteria where a former mayor who had promised to rid this city of drug corruption was gunned down the previous day. Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldua, a father of four, would have turned 49 on Friday. He was shot dead at 5:38 p.m. Thursday at his family-owned restaurant, along with two bodyguards and three other people. WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES ….Read More
EDITORS NOTE: One might wonder why I publish the reports of these seizures on this blog as it would appear to support the critics claims of Mexican trucks being used to bring drugs into the country. To the contrary, it bolsters my arguments that the ICE and CBP agents on the southern border, the honest ones, are continuing to do their jobs with diligence and success. This seizure, being brought across on a border shuttle truck, was discovered during an inspection procedure all trucks crossing the border undergo. It was a combination of a K-9′s excellent senses, the officers alertness ….Read More
Wearing an orange jumpsuit and with his ankles chained together, one of the world’s most feared drug kingpins was led off to prison yesterday after a judge sentenced him to life for his role in the global drug trade. “I would like to ask forgiveness from all those people on both sides of the border whom I have affected by my wrongful decisions and criminal conduct,” Francisco Javier Arellano Félix said in a letter read in court by a lawyer. “Please forgive me,” he said. “If I had the power to change and undo the things that I have done, ….Read More
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities announced Wednesday the seizure of more than 11 tons of cocaine in the western port city of Manzanillo, and said it was one of the nation’s biggest drug busts ever. During a routine inspection, federal police and marines discovered a cargo container filled with packets of the drug aboard the Hong Kong-flagged ship Esmeralda, which departed from Buenaventura, Colombia, the federal attorney general’s office said in a statement. Authorities were still weighing the drugs but the statement said their weight had already surpassed 11 tons, making Tuesday’s seizure “one of the greatest quantities of cocaine ….Read More
The Mexican army convoy rolled off a C-130 Hercules plane in the middle of the night, purred through this sweltering port city’s dingy back streets and swooped on traffickers unloading cocaine in a warehouse.Shipped to Mexico hours before in a container labeled ”bread flour”, the 11.7 tons seized last week was Mexico’s biggest-ever cocaine bust and led to the arrest of a string of police and customs officers thought to be in on the deal.
The Mexican Army seized an estimated 10 tons of cocaine and arrested seven people after a gun battle Friday between agents and traffickers in the streets of Tampico, Tamaulipas, according to an Army news release.No deaths were reported in what was hailed as the largest drug bust in the history of the country’s battle against organized crime, but police sources said there were several injuries.
Blessed with charm and good looks, Sandra Avila Beltran is enthralling Mexico. Not as a beauty queen, but as an alleged drug lord, and the story of her arrest and possible extradition to the U.S. is being followed more closely than a telenovela.Police say the raven-haired 46-year-old spent more than a decade working her way to the top echelons of Mexico’s male-dominated drug trade, uniting Colombian and Mexican gangs, and seducing several notorious kingpins. Dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific,” she even has her own song — a “narcocorrido” folk ballad about drug traffickers by Los Tucanes de Tijuana that ….Read More