Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

Sep 252009
 
 25/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 18:48 on 25/09/2009 Comments Off
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.

Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:54 on 23/09/2009 Comments Off
Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists. “Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso. Luis Astorga, a researcher with ….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

Soldiers detained for taking guns into Mexico, released in Cd. Juarez

May 312008
 
 31/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:24 on 31/05/2008 Comments Off
Soldiers detained for taking guns into Mexico, released in Cd. Juarez

“I have no bad feelings, but I just want to go home,” he said. “I have no bad feelings against Mexico or the people of Mexico.”

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