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Monday, November 14, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.14.2011

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Mexican Drug Cartel Kills Blogger
Forbes
Mexico's Zetas drug cartel killed another blogger, continuing its unrelenting war against persistent citizen journalists fighting the underground organization on social media at any cost. Zetas' latest victim, a man who moderated the Nuevo Laredo En ...
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Mexican drug traffickers undermine elections
Los Angeles Times
Dozens of candidates in the state of Michoacan drop out of their races because of threats from drug cartels. Luisa Maria Calderon, sister of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, is running for governor of Michoacan state. She's flanked by the National ...
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Los Angeles Times
Mexico: Folk Singer Diego Rivas Murdered, Songs Told of Stories Drug Gangs
International Business Times
While singers tend to praise cartels and gang leaders, their proximity to the drug trade have made many the target of violence. Nearly 20 folk singers have been murdered since the escalation of Mexico's drug war in 2006. While motives are often unclear ...
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International Business Times
Mexico's Top 10 Narco-Conspiracy Theories
InSight Crime
Human-smoked BBQ: There are numerous stories about the ways Mexican drug gangs dispose of their victims. Some, like beheadings and desolvings in acid, are known to be true. But others are legends or, at best, uncorroborated testimonies. ...
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Mexico loss of 2nd in charge won't change drug war
eTaiwan News
In his short time in the job, Blake Mora embodied the government's get-tough attitude toward drug cartels and other gangs, publicly pledging not to back down. “Organized crime, in its desperation, resorts to committing atrocities that we can't and ...
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From Mexico to Soho: Artists Seek to End Violence in Juarez
World Policy Institute (blog)
He is a long way from his hometown of Juarez, a Mexican border city that has fallen into a violent, downward spiral as drug cartels and gangs fight over the smuggling routes that pass through the city. As dusk falls on New York City, Urias and others ...
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World Policy Institute (blog)
Follow From the Wires
Salon
By Gustavo Ruiz, Associated Press MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's former ruling party won a major governor's race on Monday after a campaign marred by drug-cartel threats and violence, defeating President Felipe Calderon's sister and building momentum ...
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Salon
Suspicions run high after death of Mexican anti-drug crusader
Toronto Star
The Calderon administration recently stated it has vetted elite squads with the specific goal of taking down drug kingpin Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman before Calderon leaves office next year. (Guzman heads Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel, and Forbes ranks ...
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Nation's Spys to Help in Fight Against Narco Cartels & Other Illegal Marijuana ...
Hispanically Speaking News
While federal officials suspect that Mexican organized crime bosses might be involved, authorities say they have not proven a direct link between marijuana gardens on US public lands and the major Mexico-based drug cartels.
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Hispanically Speaking News


Businesses in Mexico hurt by fear of drug violence
WFAA
"My mother spoke to my cousin in Texas who said ;He's crazy; he's an idiot. He shouldn't do that. It's so dangerous in Mexico,'" said David Olson of the trip, They avoided the region in Mexico near the Texas border, but felt the adventurous road trip ...
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Exxon's Tillerson Follows Ex-BP CEO Hayward Into Kurdish Bonanza
BusinessWeek
Tillerson has been expanding Exxon's holdings from the Russian Arctic to the Texas-Mexico border to reverse a production shortfall that saw third-quarter output drop the most in three years. The company's willingness to sign a contract with Kurdish ...
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Psyllids but no HLB detected in Texas
TheGrower
HLB has devastated trees in Florida, and lurks just south of the border, said Ray Prewett, president of Mission-based Texas Citrus Mutual. Growers were on edge in mid-October, after a “hot” psyllid was detected in Mexico, not far from the Rio Grande ...
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US uses more unmanned aircraft to secure border
DAWN.com
Eventually, one of the Texas aircraft will receive specialized maritime radar and concentrate on searching for smugglers in the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean. For now, the Predator's greatest focus is along the US-Mexico border, where the drug ...
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DAWN.com
A narco's case against the US
Salon
Michelle GarcĂ­a is a journalist and director of the documentary “Against Mexico-the making of Heroes and Enemies” now streaming on PBS.org. View her web site here. She is at work on a book about masculinity and the US-Mexico border. ...
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Salon
Mexican police arrest protesters in Juarez
World Socialist Web Site
Thousands have been driven into the underground economy or forced to cross the US-Mexico border in search of work. At plants that have not closed, real wages have fallen as transnational companies such as Electrolux, Delphi and Foxconn have taken ...
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America's Army at the border
Washington Examiner
Last month, President Obama announced that the 1200 US troops working security on the Mexican border will stay through the end of the year. More than 17000 border patrol agents are on duty along the 2000-mile border, so the military's contribution is ...
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If you build it, they'll still come: Border fence can't stem tide
KENS 5 TV
by Angela Kocherga / KENS 5 Michelle Bachmann wants a double fence and Mitt Romney wants to extend the fence along the entire southwest border. There are 649 miles of fence along the US/Mexico border. The tallest point is 30 feet high, and the longest ...
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Fast and Furious confusion
Charleston Post Courier
These efforts were undertaken by the Bush administration's Justice Department, and a memorandum to then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey alerted him that Mexican authorities did not track the smugglers after they crossed the border into Mexico with ...
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Prophetic priest to lead 1000s Occupy Fort Benning human rights defenders
Examiner.com
1000s of oppressed represented by 1000s human rights defenders: Occupy Fort Benning led by Fr. Roy Bourgeois to end US training Latin American military to torture, disappear, murder -- and blame 'Mexican criminals' and lax border US-trained Mexican ...
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Canada, Mexico ask to join pan-Pacific trade talks
Reuters
By Pablo Garibian and Rachelle Younglai HONOLULU (Reuters) - Canada and Mexico want to join talks to forge a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific region, giving a significant boost to the US-led initiative to foster economic growth by tearing down trade ...
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Reuters
Southwest Plans JWA-Mexico Routes on AirTran
Orange County Business Journal
The new terminal includes space for US Customs and Border Protection operations, a necessity for service to Mexico and other international destinations. Air Tran plans to offer regular service on routes to Mexico City and Cabo San Lucas from JWA, ...
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