Texas / Mexico Border News - 11.29.2011

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Arizona sheriff backs Perry in GOP race Boston.com Perry, as governor of Texas, a border state, has more experience than most of his rivals in dealing with illegal immigrants. Since 2005, Perry says Texas spent $400 million on security at the Texas-Mexico border, including sending ranger reconnaissance ... See all stories on this topic »

Border Fence in Texas Cuts through Private Property AllGov Tim Loop of Brownsville, Texas, is now living in no-man's land, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security. Loop and his family reside on farmland settled by his grandfather almost a century ago near the US-Mexico border. But their property is being ... See all stories on this topic » AllGov

Gunmen kill 4-year-old boy in Mexican border city Fox News Ciudad Juarez, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, has been plagued by drug-related violence for years. The murder rate took off in the gritty border city of 1.5 million people in 2007, when 310 people were killed, then it more than ... See all stories on this topic »

Drones cleared for domestic use across the US RT Michael Kostelnik, currently with the US Customs and Border Protection UAV program, told a congressional subcommittee that a third drone was being added to an arsenal of two that already fly over Texas to patrol the US/Mexico Border. ... See all stories on this topic » RT

Joaquin Luna: undocumented migrant whose lack of hope drove him to suicide The Guardian He was born in Ciudad Miguel Alemán in Mexico, right on the border with Texas. When he was six months old his family, including his parents and five siblings, crossed the border without visas and travelled just about 40 miles to Mission, on the US side ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Mexican Spillover Violence: The Riddles Grow InSight Crime Do they foreshadow a general tendency to bring violence north across the border? For decades Mexican drug smugglers have had marketing links inside the United States, but the large cartels have kept most of their fighting in Mexico. ... See all stories on this topic »

Students Survive Mexican Drug War, But Struggle with Emotions in Texas Schools Fox News Barajas decided to teach this class after realizing many of his students have been victimized across the border in Mexico, a pattern that seems to be growing along the Texas border. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) They escaped the war zone, ... See all stories on this topic »

US builds sea fence to stop Mexican immigrant wave AFP The $4.3 million project will replace a dilapidated border fence with an 18-foot (nearly six-meter) high corrosion-proof barrier between Tijuana on the Mexican side and the US side south of San Diego. "The project we are working on is to replace the ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Patrolling 'smugglers' alley' by air along the Rio Grande msnbc.com Stacy Holland and Lt. Johnny Prince of the Texas Department of Public Safety patrol the US Mexico border and say they are seeing an increase in the volume of narcotics pumped into the United States.  Another serious concern is for the safety of Texas ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Arizona Lawmakers Say They Will Build Border Fence MyFox Phoenix Fencing currently covers about 650 miles, or one-third, of the 2000-mile US-Mexico border. Nearly half sits in Arizona — the busiest gateway for both illegal immigrants and marijuana — with the rest equally divided among California, New Mexico and ... See all stories on this topic »

Teamsters expand lawsuit against Mexican trucks The Trucker Under the North American Free Trade Agreement signed nearly two decades ago, trucks from both countries were supposed to have unhindered access to highways on either side of the border. Mexico's Ambassador to the US, Arturo Sarukhan, said that the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kansas City seen as a hub for drug traffickers on Interstate 35 Kansas City Star However, of all the narcotics seized in the United States in 2010, well more than half was taken within 150 miles of the US-Mexico border. Overall, seizures of cocaine declined more than 30 percent between 2006 and 2010, while seizures of ... See all stories on this topic »

 International banks have aided Mexican drug gangs - Los Angeles ...
Money launderers for ruthless Mexican drug gangs have long had a formidable ally: international banks. Despite strict rules set by international regulatory ...
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 Gingrich Would Execute Mexico Drug Cartel Leaders ...
By psmith
Republican presidential nominee contender Newt Gingrich said Saturday he would favor the use of the death penalty against Mexican drug trafficking organization leaders. The comments came in an interview with Yahoo News in which the ...
Drug War Chronicle

US Deports Zetas Cartel Member to Mexico Fox News Mexico is "cooperating closely" with the United States and will not allow "borders to get in the way" of carrying out the justice "demanded by the Mexican people," the AG's office said. Los Zetas, considered Mexico's most violent drug cartel, ... See all stories on this topic »

How Forensic Economics Can Help Mexico Win Its War on Drug Trafficking Slate Magazine And it captures the approach employed by MIT Ph.D. student Melissa Dell in her recent work, which strips the seemingly senseless violence of the Mexican Drug War to its cold, rational essentials. Viewing Mexico's drug cartels as calculating, ... See all stories on this topic » Slate Magazine

VIDEO: Carlos Fuentes on Mexico's drug scars CBC.ca He has been chronicling his country's development since the late 1950s, but in recent years, he has become preoccupied with Mexico's drug war, a conflict between the government and the country's drug cartels that has led to over 45000 murders in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Newt Gingrich on the Drug War: Execute Mexican Cartel Leaders (And More ... AlterNet "My general belief is that we ought to be much more aggressive about drug policy, and that we should recognize that the Mexican cartels are funded by Americans," Gingrich said. When asked if he stood by his 1996 legislation that would have given the ... See all stories on this topic »

President thanks Venezuelan leader for capturing alleged member of Los Paisas ... CNN International During his visit to Caracas, Santos thanked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for the capture of El Valenciano, who is allegedly a member of the Los Paisas cartels. "He is one of the most recognizable drug traffickers who has caused terrible damage to ... See all stories on this topic »

Does Mexico need the ICC? GlobalPost Whereas the court has judged various dictators, Calderon came to power by winning an election — albeit by the closet margin in Mexican electoral history. In a news release, Mexico´s foreign department argued that when drug cartels commit such violence ... See all stories on this topic »

Keep the Military Out of Latin American Drug Wars Honduras Weekly On October 15, Latin News reported on the enthusiasm displayed by the Mexican military upon capturing Alfredo 'El Comandante' Alemán Narváez, the leader of the San Luis Potosí branch of Los Zetas drug cartel. Then, on November 4, similar feelings were ... See all stories on this topic »