Mexican military seizes 2.5 tons of marijuana in Miguel Aleman

Mar 302008
 
 30/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:46 on 30/03/2008 Comments Off
Mexican military seizes 2.5 tons of marijuana in Miguel Aleman

More than 2.5 tons of marijuana was seized in two raids in Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas this week. Units of the First Motorized Calvary Regiment, headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, made the seizures after executing a warrant signed by a Federal Magistrate. A total of 365 packages of marijuana, wrapped in brown paper and duct tape weighing 2, 608.9 kilos, was seized. No word of any arrests or detentions at this time. Military spokesmen reported that, to date, Operation Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas, an operation to combat the narcotic traffic on the border, has resulted in the seizure of 644 kilos of marijuana, 50.3 ….Read More

Mexican cross border drayage trucks revealed (28 photos – RAW)

Mar 192008
 
 19/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:31 on 19/03/2008 Comments Off

OOIDA’ executive vice president Todd Spencer, continues to try and convince the public, the Courts and Congress that the companies participating in the Cross Border Demonstration Project re using the same trucks as the border shuttle fleet or drayage operators. He insinuates this fleet is ill maintained, worn out junk rigs that have no place on US highways. But of course, he’s wrong as we’ve proved time and again on this site. CANACAR, the Mexican equivalent of the ATA, with about 150 member carriers is working to change this perception and encourage member carriers to upgrade their drayage equipment Whether ….Read More

Candidates pander to the electorate over NAFTA

Mar 042008
 
 04/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:09 on 04/03/2008 Comments Off
Candidates pander to the electorate over NAFTA

After the vote tallies are in from today’s primary elections in Texas and Ohio, the presidential candidates should stop talking about gutting international trade treaties. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supported the North American Free Trade Agreement when campaigning in Texas but promised Ohio voters that they would force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate NAFTA. The reason for two positions on the same subject can be attributed to pandering for votes in Ohio, which has lost manufacturing jobs in recent years, whereas Texas’ economy has grown significantly since Congress approved the NAFTA treaty promoted by former President Clinton. Since ….Read More

Bill to reform Mexican justice system up for vote today

Feb 262008
 
 26/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:25 on 26/02/2008 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — Mexican legislators are expected today to overhaul the country’s famously ineffective justice system, implementing public trials nationwide while turning up the heat on organized crime. The long-awaited “justice reform” bill — the result of several years of fierce debate among security experts, academics and human rights activists — would amend the constitution to include the presumption of innocence and other guarantees. It would also provide alternatives to jail for minor crimes, in an attempt to reduce overcrowding in Mexican prisons. Many of the new rights, however, would not apply to suspected members of the criminal mafias, who ….Read More

CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

Feb 202008
 
 20/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:57 on 20/02/2008 Comments Off
CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

LAREDO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $1.8 million in cocaine and marijuana in three separate incidents recently, according to a news release from the agency. The largest seizure occurred Feb. 17, at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge when a drug dog reacted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the rear rocker panel area of a 2007 Toyota Camry. Officers found nearly 42 pounds of cocaine. A passenger in the car, Darrell Wayne Phillips, 43, of Clewiston, Fla., was arrested. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $1.3 million. On Feb. 15, at 6:40 p.m. at the Gateway ….Read More

Mexico gunrunning to be probed

Feb 082008
 
 08/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:03 on 08/02/2008 Comments Off

WASHINGTON — A congressional review of U.S. law enforcement efforts to halt gun trafficking into Mexico was ordered Thursday by a House panel overseeing a $1.4 billion Bush administration plan to fight international narcotics cartels. The review of U.S. law enforcement efforts to stop gun running along the 2,000-mile border, particularly in high-traffic corridors of Laredo; Nogales, Ariz.; and San Diego, Calif., was ordered by the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The panel heard testimony from U.S. law enforcement officials that 6,700 licensed gun dealers are located along the Southwest border, with only 100 Bureau of Alcohol, ….Read More

From Migrants to Immigrants – Jorge Castañeda on the Immigration debate

Jan 302008
 
 30/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:11 on 30/01/2008 Comments Off
From Migrants to Immigrants - Jorge Castañeda on the Immigration debate

Mexican cartels feeling the pressure

Jan 272008
 
 27/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:40 on 27/01/2008 Comments Off
Mexican cartels feeling the pressure

“There will be no retreat. We are not going to take a step back. The fight against crime is going to to be permanent, systematic.”

Mexico following US elections closely

Jan 202008
 
 20/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:44 on 20/01/2008 Comments Off

MONTERREY, Mexico — Cecilia Reyes can’t say where the first Democratic caucus was held but knows Hillary Clinton took New Hampshire by three points over her main opponent — whose name she can’t remember but she knows has Kenyan roots. Reyes, a Mexican citizen, can’t vote in November’s U.S. presidential election. But she’s pulling for the former first lady. “She has a solid social and human background,” said the civil servant, 40. “And she knows about politics.” Mexico knows politics, too. Due to the impasse on U.S. immigration reform, recent free trade controversies over beans and corn, and unprecedented Mexican ….Read More

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