23/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:14 on 23/12/2008 Comments Off
Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday. Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga stared at the ground, with her flowing dark hair concealing her face, as she stood squeezed between seven alleged gunmen lined up before journalists. Soldiers wearing ski masks guarded the 23-year-old model and the suspects. Zuniga was arrested shortly before midnight on Monday at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, just outside the colonial city of Guadalajara, said Jalisco state police director, Francisco Alejandro Solorio. Zuniga ….Read More

 
 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

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