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| Border Patrol agent fires round at alleged drug smugglers near B&M Bridge Brownsville Herald The reportedly fled back to Mexico. A helicopter was sent to the area to help search for the alleged smugglers, but none were located. The agents recovered more than 13 pounds of marijuana that had been left behind, Huey said. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| XC Networks Chooses Tejas Networks' Packet Optical Transport Backbone for ... Business Wire India (press release) XC Networks, a leading provider of cross-border communications, last mile solutions and wireless backhaul in the Republic of Mexico and the US, announces today the selection of Tejas Networks' Packet Optical Transport solutions to upgrade its optical ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Twelve charged in Panamanian drug trafficking conspiracy Newark Post Regardless of the smuggling methods, once the couriers received the drugs they traveled by bus or airplane to Mexico, where they ultimately crossed or attempted to cross the United States border in Texas border towns such as Laredo, McAllen, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Crime sends chills through retiree oasis in Mexico MiamiHerald.com ... has unfolded on the shores of Lake Chapala could be "Mayberry RFD" meets "Goodfellas." Whether the gung-ho volunteerism reminiscent of small towns north of the border can keep at bay the underworld crime lashing other parts of Mexico is yet to be seen. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Federal judge sides with Union Pacific in Neb. drug-smuggling lawsuit, orders ... Washington Post At issue was whether it's proper for US Customs and Border Protection officials to impose these fines on railroads. Union Pacific, the largest rail shipper on the US-Mexico border, has argued that it shouldn't be held responsible for the train cars ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican cartel member in Texas was fleeing enemies Beaumont Enterprise CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, AP McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A high-ranking member of the Mexican Gulf cartel's Matamoros operations was fleeing "certain death" when Border Patrol agents apprehended him near the Rio Grande carrying a gold-plated handgun, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CBP stats show big drop in local border-crossings Nogales International But Bersin also suggested that concerns about drug violence are keeping American tourists away from Mexican border cities, which would contribute to a decrease in US port crossings. And he pointed to financial factors as well, saying: “economic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Keep on trucking El Paso Inc. The drayage trucking industry is big business along the US-Mexico border, with hundreds of companies hauling supplies and finished products back and forth across the border daily. Historically, Mexican drayage trucking companies have similar, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Survey finds cocaine use down sharply in U.S. San Francisco Chronicle The trend seems to be having an effect on the Mexican cartels that move the vast majority of cocaine across the US-Mexico border. Cocaine seizures along the border fell 28 percent between 2006 and 2010. While seizures alone are not proof, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Border Fence: Fact and Fiction KUT News Part of the US/Mexico border fence was built on the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. Photo courtesy of UTB and Texas Southmost College Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play ... See all stories on this topic » |
| DHS and DOD announce shift in border security operations Brownsville Herald By LAURA B. MARTINEZ/The Brownsville Herald Although some Texas National Guard troops deployed along the Texas-Mexico border are slated to leave the area next month, the Defense Department will continue to assist in the securing of the nation's border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Die-hard Cowboys fans risk fearful Mexico journey to reach Texas stadium KENS 5 TV ... Texas on Sunday, December 11, 2011. by Julian Aguilar / The Texas Tribune MONTERREY, Mexico — The convenience store was the last stop until the border on the road leading out of this industrial Mexican city, and Raúl Vargas, a tour guide, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Four die in New Mexico crash as blizzard hits area Alamogordo Daily News Elsewhere, more than 150 miles of Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and the Colorado border and all routes headed east from Raton toward the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles were shut down late Monday afternoon. Farther south, Interstate 40 was closed from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dental tourism RDH California and Texas are also affected. The corresponding US/Mexico border cities offering dentistry and pulling US citizens south is Tijuana (south of San Diego, Calif.), Juarez (south of El Paso, Texas), and Los Algodones (south of Yuma, Ariz.). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A perfect fit: Tech biomedical research and the border El Paso Times Infectious diseases are also of great importance to the region because we are on the border. The swine flu epidemic of 2009 came into the United States from Mexico. Commerce across the border can also bring infectious diseases into the region, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Parts of Texas Panhandle get 10 inches of snow, no school Tuesday in Dalhart ... The Republic Forecaster Todd Beal told The Associated Press that 10 inches of snow fell since Monday outside Texline, near the border with New Mexico. The Dalhart Independent School District called off classes Tuesday after the area received up to 7 inches of snow. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Natalicio honored by Mexican government El Paso Inc. UTEP president Diana Natalicio, center, with Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador to the United States, left; and Julio Cesar Ortega Cuentas of Brown University, right. WASHINGTON - Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas at El Paso, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Snowstorm Closes I-25 From Pueblo To New Mexico Border KRDO Hundreds of drivers are detouring, turning around around or finding shelter for the night after Monday's snowstorm led the Colorado Department of Transportation to close Interstate 25 south between Exit 94 (Pueblo Boulevard) and the New Mexico border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Heroin, cocaine ring busted The News Journal The couriers often took nine or 10 days, often on buses, to get the drugs from Panama to Mexico, crossing into the United States through the Texas border towns of Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville. Edmund would often be in Texas to meet and take them ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Richard Rhodes: The Texas Tribune Interview Texas Tribune ... but if you want to see what happens to a population where education is not supported and you end up with two very distinct and different classes of citizens, you can look at where I came from. Go right across the border to Juárez, Mexico. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Troiani announces bid for Congress Brownsville Herald Troiani said that as city commissioner, he was instrumental in obtaining a reversionary clause during the negotiations over the border wall and that because of these efforts, the city is the only one along the US-Mexico border to have the ability to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Snowstorm Hits Parts of Midwest KEYC TV At least six deaths are blamed on the storm, which struck the southwest on Monday, closing highways from New Mexico to Texas. Four people died in an accident along the New Mexico–Texas border, where blizzard conditions are rare. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Feds may work out differences Examiner.com The bulk of the letter's criticisms seem to revolve around allegations of discrimination against Latinos by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office during its course of enforcing immigration laws near the Arizona-Mexico border. The letter also expresses ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Los Angeles Times hires David Horsey Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog (blog) Pedro Rios of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, criticizing the federal government's plans to build a huge, ugly, imposing fence right into the Pacific Ocean on the border with Mexico. The Washington Bus' Devin Glaser analyzes the report ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Location, location, location El Paso Inc. The desert, the mountains, the rio, the Hispanic culture and the sharing of the border with Mexico and New Mexico make for a unique American environment. We are several hours drive from Albuquerque and Tucson. It's even further to Phoenix and Los ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Mexican drug gangs' public relations campaign Al Jazeera From guns to the media, Mexican drug cartels have turned to new and unusual tactics to intimidate their rivals. Videos of drug-related massacres have been sent to news networks and posted online. The gangs have also tried to win support through public ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug cartel bill is bizarre Youngstown Vindicator Y., the only dissenting vote in the panel, told me in a subsequent interview that, whatever you think about the bill's proposals, branding Mexico's drug cartel as terrorists is wrong, because the Mexican cartels don't have a political agenda. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Police find 10 bodies in clandestine graves in northern Mexico Washington Post Police in the city of Durango have offered no motives in the killings, but officials have said the killings are the result of an internal power struggle within the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's most powerful gang. Also Monday, the Mexican army released ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Nuke the News: They're All Bad, Racists for Not Arming Drug Cartels, and BRAIN ... IMAO (satire) Q. What do you call someone who thinks it's a bad idea to sell guns to Mexican drug cartels? A. A racist. I think it's safe to say that racism has replaced patriotism as the most popular last refuge of a scoundrel. But really, what does Holder have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10 Bodies found in mass grave in northern Mexico Middle East North Africa Financial Network Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa states make up Mexico's so-called "Golden Triangle" of the illegal drug trade. The majority of the bodies discovered in Durango city earlier this year were in the Las Fuentes neighborhood. The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 100 Tons of drug precursors seized in Mexico Middle East North Africa Financial Network The administration of President Felipe Calderon, who militarized the struggle against violent drug cartels after taking office in late 2006, has seized some 2000 tons of drug precursor chemicals this year. The US drug market has seen declining demand ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tijuana Entrepreneur Creates Drug-Trafficking Inspired Clothing Line San Diego Reader (blog) By Dave Rice | Posted December 20, 2011, 8:24 am Narcocorridos, the Mexican ballads inspired by the violent and much-glamorized lifestyles of the country's drug trafficking cartels, have in turn birthed a new trend in fashion, the Latin American Herald ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UP not liable for drugs aboard Omaha World-Herald Union Pacific had argued that if it assigned its employees or hired security contractors to keep watch in Mexico, it would “expose UP's or its contractor's personnel to the risks of murder and mayhem at the hands of Mexican drug cartels. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico's president, first lady pray for peace at holy site Los Angeles Times Grayson noted that the church has had known ties to the country's drug cartels, most notably in the practice of some drug lords of funding construction or renovations of local churches. "So the church has contact, and maybe they can reach out and touch ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bill to extradite foreign drug traffickers moves to House Gant Daily The Senate bill targeted at foreign smuggling coincides with reports that Mexican drug cartels are extending their alliances beyond Latin America to include the Middle East. Last week, the Justice Department indicted an accused Lebanese drug lord ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Roberto Saviano and Nouriel Roubini Discussing the Global Financial Mafia at NYU Huffington Post Since early December, a group of Republican Congressmen have been investigating the DEA, whose agents allegedly washed several million US dollars in an undercover investigation of Mexican drug cartels. The investigators tried to find out what pathways ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 70 arrested in guns, drug sting in D.C. Washington Examiner Undercover officers traveled to Atlanta with suspects who claimed to be part of the notorious Mexican drug cartel "La Familia." The group was trying to gain a meth dealing foothold into the District, which historically has not been exposed to high ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| DeEvening Links: Manic Enterprises Washington Post (blog) The Post's Clarence Williams tells the story: “The team uncovered connections to a Mexican drug cartel and out-of-area gun traders, leading to federal investigations in a half-dozen states and a murder case in El Salvador. The year-long investigation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama Administration Endangered Lives to Justify Gun Control Town Hall And now, according to new documents obtained by CBS News, we are faced with the fact that the Obama administration helped transfer illegal guns to drug cartels in Mexico to build a case for gun control – specifically, gun registration – here in America ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gun store owner seeks to change guilty plea Las Cruces Sun-News By Ashley Meeks ameeks@lcsun-news.com LAS CRUCES - Almost five months after 14 border residents entered into plea agreements in a case charging them with trafficking firearms to Mexican cartels, the owner of the gun store alleged to have sold the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US unravels international terror financing plot linked to Hezbollah Long War Journal Ayman "Junior" Joumaa, of Virginia, is alleged to have conspired to sell tons of Colombian-produced cocaine to Mexico's Zeta cartel for ultimate sale in the US. Earlier this year, Joumaa was listed by the Treasury Department as a drug trafficker whose ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Transformed Panama shrugs off Noriega Financial Times But many of Panama's young population do not remember the dictatorship when Mr Noriega ruled the country with thug enforcers while cutting business deals with Colombia's notorious Medellín drugs cartel. Indeed, democracy has become so entrenched in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NRA-ILA Year In Review 2011 AmmoLand.com (press release) and their counterparts in the US Senate, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Cox wrote that the BATFE project “reportedly allowed over 2000 firearms to be sold to individuals already linked to Mexican drug cartels ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Latest DVDs, CDs, books: Dec. 20, 2011 Las Vegas Review-Journal Charley Castillo and his men investigate an alliance between the Russians and Mexican drug cartels. Also hitting shelves: "Albert: A Life" by Jules Stewart; "Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique" by John Gribbin; "The Devil's Elixir" by ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Tragic Comedy Of Shakespearean Proportions' Patch.com By perpetuating a skyrocketing shadow economy, the War on Drugs has given the drug czars something worth killing for. Perhaps it is because most of the victims are in Mexico, not our own cities, that we do not equate the violence of cartels with Capone ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Speak Out 12/20/11 Southeast Missourian WHAT could be almost as disgusting as giving 14000 guns to the Mexican drug cartel? How about Attorney General Eric Holder still having his job? Now that is truly disgusting. HAS anyone noticed the vast number of Cape Girardeau's restaurants that do ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| At least 106 journalists killed in the course of the year The FINANCIAL Mexico, Pakistan most dangerous countries -- For the second year in a row, Mexico has been the most dangerous country for media work with 12 journalists killed since January. The raging war between the army and the drug cartels in the north explains ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Needle: White Cab Edition Washington City Paper (blog) Authorities claim a Mexican drug cartel was involved in the operation they rolled up. Cynical but sound prediction: No matter how many arrests MPD and the FBI makes, drug and weapons trafficking will continue. -1 That's A Cab Of A Different Color: New ... See all stories on this topic » |
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