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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Texas / Mexico Border News - 11.27.2011 - Weekend

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 Along Mexican border, US ranchers say they live in fear | The ...
By TexasFred
Along Mexican border, US ranchers say they live in fear. FALFURRIAS, Texas — While walking along a dirt road bordering his property, a South Texas farmer complained about living in fear of Mexican traffickers smuggling drugs and illegal ...
The TexasFred Blog
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LETTER: Governor needs to get her history right
Farmington Daily Times
She was raised along the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, (her parents still living in El Paso with ties to Mexico), but she had never met her paternal grandfather who left no records, oral or written, as to what his immigrant status was. ...
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Nephew takes five uncles to track grandfather's legacy
My West Texas
He knew his family came from a small town in Mexico near the Texas border and that his grandfather and uncles had lived near Big Bend National Park. What he didn't know was how big of a role his family played in part of the development of Big Bend. ...
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Prominent Texas Democrats call Gingrich humane on immigration, denounce Romney ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
“The only thing they've done is pander the extremists on the right that think we ought to completely seal off the US-Mexico border,” the former El Paso region Border Patrol chief said. “And, by the way, they are silent about the Canadian-US border. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Endorse Rick Perry Next Week
ABC News (blog)
Unlike the rest of the Republican field, Perry opposes the construction of a fence along the entire US-Mexico border. Instead, Perry he says the fences should be concentrated in metropolitan areas. During Texas' last legislative session, ...
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Mexico seeks to fill drug war gap with focus on dirty money
Los Angeles Times
Soldiers carry a table displaying stacks of seized US dollars at a media presentation Tuesday in Mexico City. The money, found in a car in a downtown Tijuana neighborhood, is believed by authorities to belong to members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. ...
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Los Angeles Times
CSI Mexico: Bodies of cartel victims found in abandoned trucks
Examiner.com
Los Zetas Cartel is arguably most powerful organized crime syndicate in Mexico and it's considered the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico by both US and Mexican law enforcement. While the Mexican police released ...
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Army kills 3 gunmen in central Mexico
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
The Mexican government has been battling the country's drug cartels for the better part of the past 10 years. A total of 15270 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico last year, and more than 40000 people have died since President Felipe ...
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Countess courts rich and famous to end drug war
Scotland on Sunday
By Tom Peterkin THE neo-classical splendour of Gosford House, one of Scotland's finest stately homes, would appear to be a far cry from the misery caused by armed drugs cartels in Mexico. But an aristocratic member of the family which owns the Robert ...
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ICC Called To Investigate Mexican President
NPR
A group of human rights activists in Mexico has asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate President Felipe Calderon in connection with the deadly war on drug cartels. The complaint, spearheaded by human rights lawyer Netzai ...
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My take on Batman Inc. in Mexico
Comic Book Movie
First, Mexico is currently suffering of a big crisis the whole country is involved in a big war against drug cartels. Innocent people gets killed every single day in the most horrible ways, most commonly on a crossfire between cops and drug cartels ...
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Comic Book Movie
Mexicans seek ICC probe of president
Gulf Times
More than 45000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006 as powerful cartels fight security forces and each other for control of smuggling routes into the neighboring US and other countries. “The violence in Mexico is bigger than ...
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ATF and DOJ Break the Law
Canada Free Press
... field supervisor who oversaw Operation Fast and Furious that allowed over 2000 rifles to walk into the arms of Mexican Drug Cartels, were whisked away to the safety of ATF Headquarters fortress on New York Avenue in Washington, DC. ...
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US to extend border fence 300 feet into Pacific
Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Imperial Beach — Pounding surf and corrosive sea air have stymied efforts for years to erect a sturdy fence at the westernmost edge of the US-Mexico border. Now, the US Border Patrol is trying again, with a $4.3-million project that ...
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Los Angeles Times
Arizona border outpost one of the quietest in US
Arizona Republic
27, 2011 12:00 AM The official border-crossing point in this southern Arizona town is one of the loneliest outposts on the entire 2000-mile US-Mexico border. The Sasabe Port of Entry is so isolated US officers once set up a barbecue grill on the front ...
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Arizona Republic
US, Mexico try to reduce drug-related money laundering
SignOnSanDiego.com
ICE figures show a $300 million rise in declared currency heading from Mexico into California from 2009 through last year. A similar increase was registered along New Mexico's stretch of the US-Mexico border, while Arizona's was far smaller ($1.9 ...
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Border Fence Upends a Valley Farmer's Life
New York Times
Consider the plight of Tim Loop, 47, who lives on his family farm in Brownsville, at the southernmost point along the United States-Mexico border. Not so long ago, the Loop farm was a pastoral vision, with its bountiful mesquite and cotton fields and ...
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New York Times
Tough times may be ahead for border economy
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
"Our sources in Mexico believe that the PRI may be willing to negotiate with organized crime if a PRI president is elected." At least one political leader in the Mexican border state of Coahuila is using the Internet to sound an alarm over previous ...
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Corruption in Mexico casinos takes a toll in the US, too
Kansas City Star
Rojas-Cardona was charged with a far more serious crime two years later when Border Patrol agents staffing a checkpoint at Orogrande, a remote New Mexico outpost less than an hour from the southern border, saw a white Buick with no license plates ...
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Short-haul truckers work the border
SignOnSanDiego.com
If he's lucky, he'll be able to turn around and repeat that cycle two more times — for a total of nine hours spent inching back and forth across the US-Mexico border. Betancourt is part of an army of Mexican short-distance truckers with iron endurance ...
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SENATOR JOHN McCAIN RELEASES NEW GAO REPORT ON WILDFIRES ALONG THE ARIZONA ...
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
Washington, DC -- US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released a new government study conducted by the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) on human-caused wildfires along the Arizona-Mexico border. The study determined that 30 out of 77 ...
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16 Drug Mules Arrested at Arizona Mexico Border This Week
Hispanically Speaking News
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson Sector, a component of US Customs and Border Protection's Joint Field Command-Arizona, seized 1087 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $543500 and arrested 16 drug smugglers while patrolling in the West ...
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Hispanically Speaking News
Drug violence in Mexico takes horrific toll
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
About $60 billion is generated by the US consumption of drugs. That's money coming from us and laundered through the banking system, transmitted electronically or carried over the border in cash. There's no quick fix; we understand that. ...
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In Mexico drug war, Zetas lay claim to Sinaloa turf
AFP
The Guadalajara killings could be the first counter-attack by the Zetas, considered to be the most violent of Mexico's drug gangs and blamed for spreading extortion, kidnappings and murders. They are believed to have been behind a casino bombing in ...
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AFP
Activists Slam Mexico's Calderón With War Crimes Complaint
Fox News
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, shown here during a meeting with victims of violence in Mexico City, Thursday June 23, 2011, has been waged a five-year crackdown on drug cartels. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP Activists in Mexico filed a war-crimes ...
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Caribbean could become new drug route
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Nov 25, 2011 (The Reporter - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- An official with the US State Department says that pressure from United States and Mexican law enforcement on drug cartels and smugglers in Mexico and Central America ...
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Mexican town's police force walks out over threats
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Caracuaro is located in the so-called Tierra Caliente region, which straddles parts of Michoacan and the neighboring states of Guerrero and Mexico and is being fought over by the La Familia Michoacana and Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartels. ...
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Despite violence, Americans feel safe in Mexico
NewsOK.com
Mexico continues to attract US residents including retirees, and only a fraction have been affected by the homicides blamed largely on drug cartels. EL PASO — Slightly more than a fourth of US citizens who died in Mexico during an 8 1/2-year period ...
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Grassley “digging and digging and digging” into “Fast & Furious”
Radio Iowa
Agents in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms monitored large gun sales in Arizona, with the goal of tracking the guns to the drug cartels in Mexico. Agents lost track of some of the weapons, one of which was found near the body of a murdered ...
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Mexican military seizes cartel arsenal, pot consignment
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Mexico City, Nov 25, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Military units seized a drug-cartel arsenal and 3.7 tons of marijuana this week in two separate operations in the states of Tamaulipas and Sonora, Mexico's defense department said Friday. ...
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If this does not convince you, nothing will~
Gretawire (blog)
The statement represents a rare admission of the personal dangers faced by Mexico's governors. None have been killed by drug gangs. But in 2010, the former governor of the Pacific state of Colima, Silverio Cavazos Ceballos, was killed by armed men a ...
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Special forces man named Guatemala defence minister
Buenos Aires Herald
Perez, a conservative who swept to victory promising to crush street gangs and encroaching Mexican drug cartels, faces an awkward challenge because of the army's reputation for brutality during Guatemala's devastating 36-year civil war. ...
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Along Mexican border, US ranchers say they live in fear
msnbc.com
reporter: south of the texas border on the mexican side of the rio grande , surveillance video of what police say are smugglers loading illicit drugs bound for the united states . >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bundles. ...
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El Paso Has An Alternative To Black Friday
Fox News
In Texas, the Catholic Diocese of El Paso turned the Columban Mission Center, located only a few blocks from the US/Mexican border, into an alternative to shopping at a large chain stores and an opportunity for consumers to support local nonprofits. ...
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Guatemala and the Black Market for US Weapons
InSight Crime
The trafficking of weapons over the US-Mexico border is well-documented -- lesser known but also significant is the sale of US weapons to Guatemalan government contractors, which are then siphoned off to criminal groups. The Mexican government has ...
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Mexican Consumers Flock to the US for Holiday Sales
KPBS
By Jill Replogle Above: Business was booming today just north of the Mexico-US border. Some Mexican shoppers came a long way to get in on Black Friday sales. From our Fronteras Desk, Jill Replogle reports. Above: Jorge Andrés Velasquez Gomez, ...
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KPBS
7 men charged with smuggling 9 tons of pot
UPI.com
26 (UPI) -- Seven men have been charged with drug smuggling for allegedly attempting to take 9 tons of marijuana across the US-Mexico border near San Diego. Officials said the men -- five from Tijuana, two from San Diego County -- were caught Tuesday ...
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Mexican Rights Activists Seek ICC Investigation of President, Others
Voice of America
Related Articles Major Drug Tunnel Discovered Under US-Mexico Border Authorities seized 14 tons of marijuana during searches related to an investigation US Attorney General: 'Fast and Furious' Effects to Linger.
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Faith Walk | Faith can leap border fences
Kansas City Star
As we talked, armed trucks watched us from three sides. US Customs and Border Patrol even sent a transport van and a helicopter. Facing one another and holding hands or fingers through the chain link fence, our Mexican friends said the Lord's Prayer ...
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Border patrol uses horses as new weapon for fighting crime
KYTX
Now they've been adopted by the Laredo Sector of the border patrol. "There's nine sectors along the 2000 mile US-Mexico border and six of the nine border patrol sectors have mustangs," Sector Chief Robert Harris said. He said they were first introduced ...
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 Mexican Cartel Operating in Houston, Texas. - CNN iReport
11/24/11 Zeta soldiers launched Mexico-style attack in Harris County - Houston ... area to deliver a load of marijuana fresh from the Texas-Mexico border. ...
ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-708613?ref=feeds%2Flatest

Depleted Texas Lakes Expose Ghost Towns, Graves
WCTI12.com
A century-old church has emerged at Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border on the Rio Grande. Steven Standke and his wife, Carol, drove to the old Bluffton site on a sandy rutted path that GPS devices designate not as a road but the ...
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Peña Won't Seek Another Term in Texas House
Texas Tribune
On homeland and border security I once again stood at odds with some local, state and federal officials that believe sticking your head in the sand is a viable policy in confronting the violence that has ravaged Northern Mexico over the last few years. ...
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Arizona calls for $34m in donations to build fence along every INCH of its border
Daily Mail
Fencing currently covers about 650 miles, or one-third, of the 2000-mile (3218-kilometer) US-Mexico border. Nearly half is in Arizona, with the rest equally divided among California, New Mexico and Texas. Existing border fencing varies in quality from ...
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Daily Mail
Okla. ag secretary attends Tri-National Agricultural Accord
High Plains Journal
The lack of monitoring poses challenges for both the cattle and cotton industries and centers around security issues between the Texas and Mexico border. Paul M. Zmigraski, speaking on behalf of Frito Lay, encouraged an increase in the number of acres ...
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Protecting party above protecting our citizens
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise
Using a White House roundtable and Democratic forum, these law enforcement officials claimed the US-Mexico border region is not turning into a war zone. On the contrary, they blamed Republicans for creating fear. Their comments follow the lead by ...
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El Pasoans want their sister city to remain in the family
Borderzine (blog)
“It's incredibly sad what's happening across the border,” said Sonya Stokes, senior psychology student at the University of Texas at El Paso. “I think it's terrible that El Paso's image has been tarnished by irresponsible comments that people in power ...
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Mayors disagree about war-zone equipment on border
Mayors of cities along the Texas-Mexico border intent on protecting the images of their communities are drawing vastly different conclusions about a proposal ...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/.../mayors-disagree-war-zone-equip...
South Texas lawmen strongly dispute GOP's border “war ... - Infowars
South Texas lawmen strongly dispute GOP's border “war zone” claims ... Republican claims that Mexican drug cartels have turned the U.S.-Mexico border region ...
www.infowars.com/south-texas-lawmen-strongly-dispute-gop’...

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Fifty dead bodies discovered in two days in western Mexico drug vendetta
National Post
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Fifty dead bodies have been discovered over the past two days in western Mexico, victims of a fierce war waged between the government and the nation's powerful drug cartels. The bodies of 26 young men were dumped in three ...
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Governor of cartel-plagued Mexican state says his children live abroad for safety
Washington Post
CULIACAN, Mexico — The governor of Sinaloa state, home to Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, said Thursday that his three children are living abroad for their safety. Gov. Mario Lopez Valdez says police have overheard cartel members on radio ...
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Mexican group asks ICC to probe president, officials
Reuters
"We want the prosecutor to tell us if war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in Mexico, and if the president and other top officials are responsible." Signed by 23000 Mexican citizens, the complaint names Sinaloa drug cartel boss ...
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Poll said 60 pct of Mexicans believe gov't losing war on cartels
Fox News
Mexico City – Six in 10 Mexicans say the government is losing the war on violent drug cartels, while just 20 percent believe the opposite to be true, according to a new survey by polling firm Mitofsky and the non-governmental organization Mexico United ...
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Mexico: Displacement due to criminal and communal violence
Reuters AlertNet
There are currently several situations of internal displacement in Mexico. Possibly the largest has been caused since 2007 by the violence of drug cartels and the government's military response. This has caused displacement in the states of Chihuahua, ...
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26 bodies found in western Mexico
CNN
In a security report published before the games began, analysts said Guadalajara would probably be the next hot spot in Mexico's drug war, as the Zetas drug cartel tries to take over turf long dominated by the Sinaloa cartel. The analysis, published in ...
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Corruption in Mexico's casinos reaches across US border
Sacramento Bee
Its multimillion-dollar "investment" disappeared, adding the tribe to a list of victims that included a mammoth hedge fund in London, an Australian manufacturer of gaming machines, an Arizona investor and two Mexican textile tycoons. ...
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Mexico sees life beyond US export market, NAFTA
Vancouver Sun
By Dave Graham and Michael O'Boyle, Reuters November 25, 2011 7:55 AM MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - For years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, the main road to riches for many Mexican entrepreneurs was across the border. ...
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Violence tests US prohibition
Philadelphia Inquirer
Guatemala had to declare a state of siege along its Mexican border, and the leaders of Honduras and El Salvador warn that their countries are also in grave danger. Central America, off Washington's security radar since the end of the Cold War, ...
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Mexican Truck Stop
ThePopTort
Public Citizen explains: In February 2001, a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tribunal ruled that the US has been violating the terms of NAFTA because it has limited access of Mexican trucks to a 20-mile commercial zone along the border. ...
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Quarter of American deaths in Mexico were homicides
Las Cruces Sun-News
Mexican officials have said that about 30000 US citizens live in the state of Chihuahua. Bob Ailes, 59, and John Eidschun, 58, are US retirees. Ailes has lived in a Mexican border community for more than 10 years, while Eidschun makes frequent visits ...
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Mexico: 6 prisoners caught trying to swim from island jail
GlobalPost
Authorities caught six prisoners at sea as they attempted to escape from an island jail off the Pacific Coast of Mexico. A National Guard specialist spots three men near the US-Mexico border near Sunland Park, New Mexico, on June 26, 2007. ...
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Seven steps to speedier border crossings
DC Velocity
One attendee at the CSCMP session said that when her company began using a new type of high-security container seal, she sent a sample of the seal and a video showing how the seal was applied to CBP officials at the US-Mexico border. ...
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DC Velocity
Study Links Wildfires to Illegal Border Crossings
The Epoch Times
“This independent GAO study again confirms what US Forest Service and local officials in Arizona have long known: That some of the fires along the Arizona-Mexico border are caused by people crossing the border illegally,” said Sen. McCain. ...
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