Outgunned, outmanned, Mexican Army brings the fight to the cartels

Jun 012008
 
 01/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:08 on 01/06/2008 Comments Off
Outgunned, outmanned, Mexican Army brings the fight to the cartels

CULIACAN, Mexico — Automatic weapons at the ready, the platoons of federal police officers descend from the transport planes and high-step as neatly as majorettes into the searing heat. Gen. Rodolfo Cruz puts the officers through their paces as TV cameras record the event. “Here we are, showing our faces,” said Cruz, 65, a career army officer who sprinkles conversations with English phrases. “I fight crime, I put on my uniform and show my face. I don’t go around hidden.” Frustrated with the rising death toll from a resilient criminal insurgency, President Felipe Calderón seems ready to make a stand ….Read More

Phoenix gun dealer sold to Mexican drug cartels

May 062008
 
 06/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:26 on 06/05/2008 5 Responses »

PHOENIX—The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operation that supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, authorities said. Agents raided X Calibur Guns and arrested George Iknadosian after undercover agents bought guns at the store indicating they were to be trafficked to Mexico, said Carlos Baixauli, a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Iknadosian, 46, knowingly sold at least 650 firearms, including high-end semiautomatic pistols and assault-style rifles, to drug cartels, the ATF said. The investigation began 11 months ago after some guns involved in crimes in Mexico ….Read More

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.”

Aeromóvil Special Forces Group (GAFES) deployed from Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo

Jan 182008
 
 18/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:04 on 18/01/2008 Comments Off
Aeromóvil Special Forces Group (GAFES) deployed from Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo

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

Mexico ahead of the curve in drug seizures – US aid to help!

Oct 192007
 
 19/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 17:32 on 19/10/2007 Comments Off

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.

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