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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Texas / Mexico Border News - 11.24.2011

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24 Killed in Drug Cartel-Plagued Mexican State
Fox News
AP CULIACAN, Mexico – Attacks in the home state of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel left 24 people dead and 17 of the victims' bodies were found burned in two pickup trucks, officials said Wednesday. Authorities are investigating whether the attacks ...
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Factbox: Worst atrocities in Mexico's drug war
Reuters
Sept 15, 2008 - Suspected members of the Zetas drug gang tossed grenades into a crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day in the western city of Morelia, killing eight people and wounding more than 100. * Jan 31, 2010 - Suspected cartel assailants ...
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Mexican voters 'threatened by drug cartel'
Al Jazeera
Mexican authorities have promised to ensure that next year's presidential elections are not undermined by drug-related violence. The pledge follows the release of an audio recording containing threats by an alleged drug trafficker to people voting in ...
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South Mexico Land Conflict Aggravated by Drug Gangs
InSight Crime
As InSight Crime has reported, troop surges have a mixed record in Mexico. In places where the military was deployed to fight drug cartels, homicide rates actually spiked. After the military began patrolling Ciudad Juarez in 2007, for instance, ...
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Mexico political parties duel over drug cartel influence
MiamiHerald.com
The scandal, sparked by the release of a crime boss's taped phone conversation, underscored concerns that drug cartels may influence presidential elections in July. A chief of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, which lost the Nov. ...
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Mexican officials find 17 charred bodies in pick-up trucks
Telegraph.co.uk
Mexico's drug war has claimed more than 35000 lives nationwide since President Felipe Calderón deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police in late 2006 to crackdown on drug cartels, according to the government. Others put the death toll at 40000. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
US Government May Be Primary Suppliers of Mexican Drug Cartel Guns
AmmoLand.com (press release)
Cam Edwards talks to Tom Stilson from BigGovernment.com about the leak of US Military guns through the Mexican Government to the Mexican Drug Cartels. Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America's oldest civil rights and sportsmen's ...
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Mexicans flee cities devastated by drug wars to cross border and sell plasma ...
New York Daily News
BY Rheana Murray Residents are bolting for the border of what's been called one of the most dangerous cities in the world, but not to escape the violence fueled by the area's drug cartels –- they're heading to plasma centers. ...
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New York Daily News
4 charged with capital murder in Houston shooting
KFOX El Paso
Houston has long been known as a major distribution hub for drug shipments from Mexico, and Mexican drug traffickers often employ US-based street and prison gangs to help. Investigators haven't been able to confirm whether the suspects in the shooting ...
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Mexico finds 16 burned bodies in drug lord's home state
Reuters
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed the army to crack down on powerful criminal gangs and some 45000 people have died in the conflict since he took office. The government has captured or killed dozens of high-level drug smugglers. ...
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Arizona lawmakers say they will build border fence
Boston.com
Other plans include constructing fences along the 80 miles of border where none currently exist. The law also allows Arizona to enter an agreement with California, New Mexico and Texas to build fencing in those states, although there's no immediate ...
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Mexico's changing drug war
The Economist
Ciudad Juárez, in Chihuahua state and on the border with Texas, is the most striking example of this. For several years it has been the most dangerous place in Mexico and, by most counts, the world. A city of 1.3m, it saw more than 3000 murders last ...
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A “green zone” for firms in Ciudad Juárez
The Economist
A STEEL fence is all that separates El Paso, in west Texas, from Ciudad Juárez, in northern Mexico, and it has never stopped business flowing across the border. Drinks, dentistry and divorces have been served up to bargain-seeking gringos for decades. ...
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New Map Gives Texas Dems Opportunities
National Journal
The now-open 27th District, which runs from Corpus Christi to South Padre Island on the Mexico border, is 77 percent Hispanic. Democrats may turn to ex-state Rep. Solomon Ortiz Jr., the son of the congressman Farenthold defeated in 2010, ...
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Latin America prominent in Republican presidential debate on foreign policy
Christian Science Monitor
Asked a question about US-Mexico border security, here was Texas Gov. Rick Perry's full rambling answer: Well, let me kind of broaden it out. I think it's time for a 21st century Monroe Doctrine. When you think about what we put in place in the – in ...
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Arizona Lawmakers Say They Will Build Border Fence
Fox News
Other plans include constructing fences along the 80 miles of border where none currently exist. Fencing currently covers about 650 miles, or one-third, of the 2000-mile US-Mexico border. Nearly half is in Arizona, with the rest equally divided among ...
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Fox News
Teamsters sue to keep Mexican trucks out
The Detroit News
Late last month, the first Mexican trucks began entering the United States under a long-delayed pilot program. The issue has been a major point of contention between US labor unions and the Mexican government. "Opening the border to these dangerous, ...
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Mexican 'blood smugglers' crossing border twice a month to sell their plasma ...
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter It's not typically what comes to mind with the mention of smuggling between the Mexico-US border. But new reports suggest the practice of buying and selling human plasma is booming as Mexican nationals struggle to make ends meet ...
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Daily Mail
Gingrich's note of reason on immigration
CNN International
San Diego (CNN) -- Is the border between the United States and Mexico, as some claim, a war zone that calls out for heavy-duty military hardware? Or is it simply, as others insist, a gateway between two countries that are friends and neighbors? ...
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Border communities help the needy for Thanksgiving
Fox News
El Paso – All along the US border with Mexico, local governments have joined forced so that the poorest families in their communities may also have a nice dinner this Thanksgiving. On Tuesday evening, about 185 low-income families living in Sunland ...
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"Angels" call on Mexican gunmen, corrupt cops to repent
Fox News
Ciudad Juarez – Young people dressed as angels are going through Ciudad Juarez, a border city in northern Mexico, and asking gunmen and corrupt police officers to repent and turn to God. About 25 young people dressed in white tunics with wings and ...
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Fast and Furious: Brian Terry's Killers Were "Hunting" Border Patrol Agents
Human Events
Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for US Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one US ...
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Illegal immigrants suspected in 30 border fires in Arizona
Salt Lake Tribune
By Richard Simon Washington • People entering the US illegally from Mexico are believed responsible for more than one-third of human-ignited wildfires in Arizona over a five-year period, according to a government report that could stoke congressional ...
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