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Monday, November 28, 2011

Texas / Mexico Border News - 11.28.2011

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Top Ten: Ted Cruz wins our readers poll on the Texas Senate race
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Richard Dunham reports>>> 10. South Texas lawmen and Democrats strongly disputes the GOP rhetoric of the US, Mexico border as a “war zone.” The border is not in chaos,” said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe TreviƱo. “We are not at 'Ground Zero. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Gunmen kill 3 people in northern Mexico
Fox News
30 in Mexico, a report published last month in Mexico City's Reforma newspaper said. Chihuahua is home to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital. Juarez, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, has been the scene in the past few years of a ...
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Mexican ruling party smears rivals with drug gangs
Reuters
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Slowly but surely, drug cartels have ground down support for Mexico's ruling conservatives with a trail of dead over the past five years. Now, President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN) is trying to ...
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International banks have aided Mexican drug gangs
Los Angeles Times
(Associated Press) By Tracy Wilkinson and Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times Money launderers for ruthless Mexican drug gangs have long had a formidable ally: international banks. Despite strict rules set by international regulatory bodies that require ...
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Los Angeles Times
Sicilia calls for Christmas truce in Mexico's drug war
Fox News
Guadalajara – Mexican poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia called during an appearance over the weekend at the 25th Guadalajara International Book Fair, or FIL, for "a cease-fire" between the government and Mexico's drug cartels on Dec. ...
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Mexico arrests 3 members of Zetas drug cartel in slaying of governor's bodyguards
Washington Post
MONTERREY, MexicoMexican authorities say they have arrested three members of the Zetas drug cartel who later confessed to the June slaying of bodyguards for the governor of the northern state of Nuevo Leon. A federal prosecutor's aide says the men ...
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Colombia is no Lesson For Mexico (Part I)
InSight Crime
Each Mexican organization's leader has had his quirks, his own penchant for the spotlight -- but thanks to the tutelage of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, the so-called Godfather who in 1989 delegated Mexico's various drug plazas, the cartel leaders in ...
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US blacklisting seems to have little consequence in Mexico
Los Angeles Times
The lush estate of Victor Emilio Cazares, reputed to be a top lieutenant in the Sinaloa drug cartel, is near Culiacan, Mexico. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / November 28, 2011) By Ken Ellingwood and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times The US ...
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Los Angeles Times
11 Inmates escape from prison in central Mexico
Fox News
Mexico's drug cartels sometimes engineer mass prison breaks in response to the killings and arrests of their gunmen. Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, known as "El Lazca," deserted from the Mexican army in 1999 and formed Los Zetas with three other soldiers, ...
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Mexican trucker to be sentenced for role in 2 major drug tunnels found on US ...
Washington Post
A Mexican trucker faces a long prison sentence for his role in two major drug tunnels along the US-Mexico border. Daniel Navarro is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in San Diego for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Prosecutors tied him to two ...
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Mounted patrols beefed up at the border
USA Today
Clyde, a lean, copper-colored mustang, is one of the latest weapons in the struggle to tighten the US border with Mexico. The US Border Patrol has used horses since its inception in 1924, but new funds from headquarters and a federal program that ...
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USA Today
Teamsters Sue To Close Border to Unsafe, Polluting Mexican Trucks
Truckinginfo
The Teamsters filed suits last Wednesday to block the US Department of Transportation from opening the US border to dangerous Mexican trucks through an illegal pilot program. "Opening the border to these dangerous, dirty trucks is an attack on highway ...
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The US-Mexico Drug Wars, Legalization and the Republicans
Mexidata.info
Among the various factors contributing to this disastrous situation is the growing demand for illegal drugs on the US side of the border. To put it another way, American narcotics purchasers are the principal financiers of the Mexican drug cartels. ...
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Mexico & the Question of Militarizing Police in the Americas
Mexidata.info
The US Border Patrol was one of the first to recognize the superior weapons and tactical abilities and espionage-like tradecraft modus operandi being used by Mexican drug cartels, along with some local police in southern Arizona and West Texas. ...
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For some ranchers, border fence damages properties, lives
Examiner.com
They also allege that undocumented border crossers frequently damage their property. However, as many advocates for fence construction are now seeing their dream brought to fruition along the entire US-Mexico border, some ranchers have begun to ...
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Why Gingrich's immigration plan is unworkable
CNN International
Under those circumstances, you could deploy the whole US Army on the Mexican border and hardly make an impact on the problem. Immigration enforcement inescapably impinges on employers, especially employers in low-wage industries such as restaurants, ...
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Obama Has Halved Spending on Border Fencing, Infrastructure, Technology ...
CNSNews.com
Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection has said that as of June it had fenced only 649 miles of the nearly 1954-mile-long US-Mexico border--leaving more than 1300 miles of that border unfenced. The November 2011 GAO report refers to this category of ...
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Romney Charts Risky Course With Immigration Attacks
Fox News
Hispanic voters might tolerate some primary-season tough talk about building a “danged fence” along the US-Mexico border or even some discussion of increasing the enforcement of employment laws, but poll after poll shows that anything like dragnets for ...
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