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HUATULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific Coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico.
The 30-foot (10-meter) makeshift submarine was detected [...]

NUEVO LAREDO (MTNS) Almost 3 tons of marijuana was seized Monday outside the town of Camargo by units of the First Motorized Calvary, on routine patroi.
Military units discovered two SUV’s abandoned next to a canal on a ranch close to town and upon investigation, found they contained 276 packages of marijuana wieghing 2,852 kilograms
.It [...]

Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed.
The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work.
The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share [...]

Three headless bodies were found in the Valley of Juárez on Sunday and Monday while worries grew over a new Internet message demanding that prominent Juárez families and business leaders pay a “quota” to a drug cartel for protection.
The validity of the message was unknown. It was posted last week supposedly by “La Linea,” as [...]

Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city’s lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes.
Whether true or not, Juárez and other parts of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this year have become ground zero in [...]

“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.”

Our friend Sean Mattson, Mexico correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, left this interesting tidbit on his blog this morning, concerning the severed head found on a car in Monterrey this past week.
Honor amongst thieves perhaps? Who knows, but I got a chuckle out of the thing.

Head left on car with warning for wannabe [...]

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top security official blamed organized crime for the brazen killing of an acting federal police chief, saying today his death shows a nationwide crackdown is hurting gangs.
Public Safety Secretary General Garcia Luna said authorities would not be deterred by an onslaught of attacks against police as he presided over the funeral [...]