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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.17.2011

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20 Charged in Chicago-Mexico Drug Network, Ties to Zetas Drug Cartel
ticklethewire.com
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The latest: 20 defendants — five of them suspected members of a Chicago cell of the violent Zetas Mexican drug cartel — were charged in major drug indictment in Chicago following a joint FBI-DEA investigation, ...
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ticklethewire.com
'Major' US-Mexico drug tunnel found
News24
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service trumpeted the find as a major victory over Mexican drug cartels responsible for vast trafficking across the border into to the US. "The drug cartels mistakenly believe they can elude detection by ...
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Drug cartel graffiti raises eyebrows along Falcon Lake
KGBT-TV
Although there are no reports of drugs or violent crime inside park itself, the incident comes more than a year after the death of American tourist David Hartley on the Mexican side of the lake. The Zetas drug cartel are blamed in Hartley's death but ...
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Members of Central American narcoterrorist gangs
The Cutting Edge
The region is experiencing increasing levels of crime and the prospect of heightened competition from Mexican drug cartels in its territory. The institutional weakness and security vulnerabilities of Guatemala and other Central American states mean ...
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The Cutting Edge
Calderon rival has new answer to the drug war
GlobalPost
Calderon's war on drug cartels, the leftist candidate said, has been a disaster for Mexico, unleashing more bloodshed and destroying the economy. Lopez Obrador has a history of deep rivalry with Calderon. Corp Corruption suggests: The Japanese company ...
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Mexico to Use Drones Against Drug Cartels
InSight Crime
Mexico's Navy announced plans to deploy unmanned planes in support of government operations against drug cartels, starting March 2012. The drones will transmit real-time video and images, which Mexico's security forces will use to identify locations ...
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Mexican attorney general says she has asked US to extradite weapons suspects
Washington Post
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's attorney general says she has asked the United States to extradite six people suspected of providing guns to drug cartels. Marisela Morales tells Congress that three people are being held in Texas and three in California. ...
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Border group shields children from drug violence
KPHO Phoenix
It's a tall order, given the ruthlessness of Mexico's drug cartels. More than 40000 people have died in the drug war and the images of graphic violence are on full display on television and newspapers across the country. "We're learning a new language ...
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Copter crash killing Mexico's No. 2 Cabinet member could have been pilot ...
Washington Post
Blake Mora had been the face of the government's drug war, pressing the message for Mexicans to stay tough in facing the cartels. He was on his way to a meeting of prosecutors when he died. More than 16 investigators, some wearing caps and T-shirts of ...
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2 newspaper employees reported missing in Mexico
Boston.com
It notes that criminals in Mexico sometimes use fake patrol cars for highway robberies and other crimes. Mexican media organizations and journalists have come under a rising number of attacks in recent years as drug cartels have confronted government ...
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Pena Nieto Pledges Mexican Oil Opening Calderon Found Elusive
BusinessWeek
He is winning support by pledging to reduce violence tied to the government's battle against drug cartels, said Jorge Chabat, a political scientist at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, a university in Mexico City. ...
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Twenty Defendants, Including Five Allegedly Tied to the Zetas Cartel, Indicted ...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release)
CHICAGO—Twenty defendants are facing federal narcotics charges here, including five alleged members of a Chicago-based cell of the Zetas Mexican drug cartel who were responsible for transporting millions of dollars in drug proceeds between Chicago and ...
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Sixth largest cross border drug tunnel discovered in San Diego
Examiner.com
Once officials executed a federal search warrant, authorities discovered a 20-foot hole in the warehouse and recovered approximately 6 1/2 additional tons of marijuana. US agents then alerted Mexican officials that the tunnel led to another warehouse ...
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20 charged in drug trafficking indictments
nwitimes.com
According to one indictment, Eduardo Trevino -- a fugitive believed to be living in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico -- is accused of directing a money transportation network for the Zetas Mexican drug cartel that coordinated the transfer of money from places such ...
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CBP gets second Predator-B at Corpus Christi
Alpine Avalanche
The UAS will provide crucial aerial surveillance for US Border Patrol agents stationed along the Texas-Mexico border. The UAS Program operates Predator-Bs from operation centers Corpus Christi and in Sierra Vista, Ariz., and missions allow CBP to ...
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US probes ties between Mexican Zetas, Chicago area; 12 arrested in Chicago ...
Washington Post
Among the men who remain at large is Eduardo Trevino, who is accused of directing a network that shipped drug money from Chicago and other American cities to Laredo, where the money could then be moved across the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. ...
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Rick Perry's record on education (Fact Checker biography)
Washington Post (blog)
When you share the border with Mexico, and when you have as many individuals that we have coming into the state of Texas, we have a unique situation in our state. But the fact is, I stand by a record from what we've done with the resources that we've ...
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Perry Gets Aggressive in NH Amid Immigration Woes
Fox News
Perry has faced sustained criticism over a Texas policy that allows in-state college tuition for undocumented immigrants. He also has struggled to win over some conservatives for being against putting up a fence along the border with Mexico. ...
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Rick Perry loses a Georgia supporter, and Newt Gingrich gains one
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
plan for residents on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border). A one-time slip of good “sovereignty/security sense?” No. According to the Associated Press, in 2007, while he was in Mexico City for a trade mission, Perry said he would support a “free ...
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Drug tunnel on US, Mexico border
Washington Post
Police have discovered a "major cross-border drug tunnel" running to California from Mexico, and seized 14 tons of marijuana, authorities said Wednesday. The tunnel links warehouses in an industrial park south of San Diego and the Mexican border city ...
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South Texas lawmen strongly dispute GOPs border war zone claims
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Obama administration officials used a White House roundtable and Democratic forum with South Texas law enforcement officers Wednesday to refute Republican claims that Mexican drug cartels have turned the US-Mexico border region into a war zone. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Major drug tunnel linking US, Mexico discovered
Washington Post
An estimated 17 tons of marijuana were seized when authorities discovered a major cross-border drug tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. (Nov. 16) (/The Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders consistently post ...
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Cartasite Technology Secures Workers Along the US/Mexico Border
Newswire Today (press release)
On Tuesday evening, oil field workers checking a remote well site along the US / Mexico border encountered a group of twenty eight illegal immigrants. Concerned about safety and the security of the wellsite, the workers utilized a small handheld ...
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ENMU students attend border conference workshop
Portales News-Tribune
Also, that 40000 people have died as a result of the US/Mexico border violence, most of which is drug related. Martinez and fellow ENMU student Alan Kinlund asked the Mexican students in their group how much power they thought drug cartels had in ...
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Special report: In Acapulco, it's mayhem by the beach
Reuters
The jolt to Mexicans' psyche is akin to that caused by the violence ravaging the business capital of Monterrey. Only the border city of Ciudad Juarez is more violent. The fate of Acapulco and the broader Mexican tourism sector is crucial to the ...
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Reuters
Epilogue: Justice for Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz?
Police News
As the national media has been reporting, back in October 2008, Agent Jesus Diaz was one of a team of Border Patrol agents who responded to a sensor activation at the USA-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas. This area is a frequent crossing point for ...
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Woman tries to sneak Mexican national infant into US
KXXV News Channel 25
by Brandon Hartman The incident occurred on Monday when Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers came in contact with a 37-year-old woman from Edinburg and three minor children. The driver reportedly presented a US passport card for herself, ...
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Pena Nieto Pledges Mexican Oil Opening Calderon Found Elusive
BusinessWeek
Pena Nieto dismissed US Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's suggestion to send American troops across the border to help fight drug cartels. “He is out of his mind,” Pena Nieto said, adding that he wouldn't accept the breach of his country's ...
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Mexican man arrested, accused of trying to smuggle AK-27 ammo out of Arizona ...
The Republic
Authorities say a Mexican man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle more than 2500 rounds of AK-47 ammunition into Mexico from southern Arizona. US Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Tucson Field Office arrested the ...
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