Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes
03/06/2008
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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 imposed several conditions on the aid, including guarantees of civilian investigations into human rights abuses by the Mexican military. Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino said the conditions were “counterproductive and profoundly contrary to the object and spirit” of the initiative announced by U.S. ….Read More
May 172008
17/05/2008
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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 grenades and bazookas. Local police chiefs have resigned, a few fleeing to the United States for safety. Hundreds of police and soldiers have been sent early to their graves. Amid a fierce counteroffensive by the drug cartels, the question becomes: How long can, ….Read More
08/02/2008
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“It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate,” Calderon said.
18/01/2008
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Arriving on board military transport at Nuevo Laredo International Airport, 250 members of Aeromóvil Special Forces Group (GAFES), Mexico’s equivalent of the US Army’s elite Ranger’s, boarded a convoy of 32 military vehicles to be dispersed at various points around the city. The troops will be garrisoned with the cities 1st Motorized Cavalry Regiment here in Nuevo Laredo. The arrival occurred at the same time that the mayors of the border cities of Tamaulipas met privately in Ciudad Victoria with Governor Eugenio Hernandez Flores and authorities of the Federal Security Service. The Federal Security Service is a division of the ….Read More
12/01/2008
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NUEVO LAREDO – The federal government is taking no chances on seeing a recurrence of the drug-fueled violence that once plagued this major land port, sending additional military troops and federal police to the area. After the deadly confrontation earlier this week among police, soldiers and para-military criminal squads in the Rio Bravo Valley cities of Río Bravo and Reynosa, federal authorities dispatched an unspecified number of extra soldiers and federal agents to cities all along the Tamaulipas-Texas border, including Matamoros, across from Brownsville; Reynosa, near McAllen; Río Bravo, across from Donna; Miguel Alemán, across from Roma; and Nuevo Laredo.
Apr 292006
29/04/2006
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico — The contenders in today’s election for governor of Mexico’s largest state could be the cast from Hollywood’s latest comic book-inspired movie. One candidate is a woman with a mysterious alter ego whose real name most people in Mexico can barely pronounce or spell. Another is a man who has cast himself as “The Ugly.” Then there is the “Golden Boy” — a hit with the ladies, who, polls suggest, is the favorite to win the election. Even though Enrique Peña Nieto, 38, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, leads polls by margins of 16 to 20 ….Read More